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In the wake of the withdrawal of Russian forces from around Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, numerous allegations of rapes committed by Russian soldiers are emerging. Ukrainian prosecutors are probing whether the alleged incidents indicate a policy of war crimes approved by the Russian authorities.

Six people, including three children, have been killed and five injured after an explosion caused by a gas leak destroyed two upper levels of a five-story apartment block in the city of Stupino, south of Moscow.

A Russian journalist who last month protested Russia's invasion of Ukraine by interrupting a live news broadcast on Russian state television has been hired by a German media company.

A Polish government special commission has again claimed that a Russian assassination plan was behind the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and senior members of his administration in 2010.

Amnesty International has called on Russian authorities to open to the public the ongoing trial of Ivan Safronov, a prominent former Russian journalist accused of high treason in a case widely considered to be politically motivated.

Across Russia, schoolchildren and preschoolers are participating in various demonstrations in support of the country’s war in Ukraine. Schools, local administrations, and the ruling United Russia party are posting photos of the children on social media in an apparently coordinated effort.

A Current Time correspondent asked people on the streets of Moscow and Arkhangelsk what Russia had achieved after six weeks of war in Ukraine. Most repeated the Kremlin line, as they hear it on Russian media, but a few offered radically different answers.

The war in Ukraine is a test of whether the European Parliament can show courage and leadership and act as a strong defender of democracy, the legislature's president, Roberta Metsola, tells RFE/RL.

At least 30 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in a Russian missile strike on a railway station in eastern Ukraine.

The British rock band Pink Floyd has released its first new music in almost three decades to raise money for humanitarian relief in Ukraine, featuring the vocals of a Ukrainian singer who quit an international tour to fight for his country and was wounded.