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Russia's withdrawal from the southeastern city of Kherson marks another victory for Kyiv as the front lines on the battlefield continue to be redrawn.

Russia’s retreat from Kherson marks another major victory for Kyiv as the war in Ukraine continues

Russia’s withdrawal from the southeastern city of Kherson marks another victory for Kyiv as the front lines on the battl...

Amid the mounting casualties on both sides and Russia’s latest retreat, the coming winter months will have an outsized impact on the future of the war.

Now detained on suspicion of aiding Moscow in its aggression against Ukraine, the longtime head of a prominent Ukrainian aircraft engine maker is a Russian citizen, a Schemes investigation has found.

The vast network of labor camps was inherited by modern Russia: They used to be the Soviet Union's gulags, and there's little sign they improved since then.

Dozens of contract soldiers from Bashkortostan have renounced their contracts and refused further combat duty in Ukraine. One of those soldiers who returned home last month described his ordeal for RFE/RL.

Police in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, have detained journalist Sanrabia Satybaldieva, who is pregnant with her second child, and her cameraman Kalys Ashirbaev on an extortion charge she says is an attempt to frame her.

Less than 4 kilometers from the Russian border, the Kharkiv region town of Vovchansk was liberated during Ukraine's lightning counteroffensive in September. But the largely deserted town is under daily bombardment, with businesses boarded up and the few remaining civilians struggling to get by.

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s notoriety has long been peppered with indictments, murky business transactions, mercenary brutality, and the weaponization of Internet trolling. Eight months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the man dubbed “Putin’s chef” is stepping further out of the shadows.