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A schoolteacher. A TV news editor. A performance artist. National guardsmen. These are some of the Russians who are protesting the war in Ukraine -- or refusing to fight in it.

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko has distanced herself from President Vladimir Putin and condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, stressing that she regrets that her past actions or statements "could have been misinterpreted."

Russia has been sustaining "incredible" losses since the start of its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. State Department official says, putting the figure at more than 10,000 killed since the attack was launched just over a month ago. 

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says Russian forces occupying the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power station must pull out of the area after Ukraine's armed forces warned there is a danger of ammunition exploding at the site.

A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), landing safely in Kazakhstan in a rare show of cooperation between the two countries whose relations have all but disintegrated over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Seven videos selected by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry highlighted important aspects of the war. Ukraine has been using memes and humor in its information warfare strategy.

Russian and Ukrainian delegations have opened face-to-face talks in Istanbul, the first such contact between the two sides in more than two weeks.

Ukrainian civilians who have escaped from the besieged port city of Mariupol have described scenes of "hell" and say those who remain in the ruins are on the brink of starvation. Russian forces have surrounded the city and have been pounding it with artillery and rocket fire. Some civilians have been allowed to flee during breaks in the shelling. Speaking to Current Time in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on March 24, those who fled Mariupol said conditions were "shocking"...

We already know a lot about how to break through the Kremlin’s wall of silence.

In a presentation to the European Parliament on March 23, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the international community to step up its aid to Ukraine, including the provision of massive military help and the imposition of “hellish sanctions” against Russia.