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Ahead of Ukraine's Independence Day – and the six-month mark since the Russian invasion on February 24 -- RFE/RL spoke with Yaroslav Hrytsak, a prominent Ukrainian historian and public intellectual. At stake in the war, he said, is “is the very existence of Ukrainians as a nation.”

Russia’s claims that a 42-year-old Ukrainian woman carried out the car-bomb assassination of the daughter of a prominent, far-right ideologue in Moscow hold little water, analysts say. Some see a possible Kremlin turf fight and say such attacks could increase if Russia is seen to be losing the war.

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Canada has imposed sanctions on 62 more Russian citizens and one defense company over Moscow’s ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

The United States is expected to announce a new security assistance package for Ukraine totaling about $3 billion as it tries to beat back invading Russian forces.

Human Rights Watch has called on Tajik authorities to stop the "wrongful detention" of residents of the Central Asian nation's volatile Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), dozens of whom have been arrested since protests in May protests and "are facing closed, unfair trials."

Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry has summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Petro Vrublevskiy over "inappropriate" comments he made in an interview with a Kazakh blogger about Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine that went viral on the Internet.

Tirana has accused two Russians and a Ukrainian of spying. Friends of Lana Sator insist that she was only exploring a military base for her popular blog, while Albanian police claim a man travelling with her has “admitted” to spying.

Six months after Russia launched its invasion, polls point to increased unity among Ukrainians, with 85 percent saying they consider themselves first of all citizens of their country and almost as many saying they will accept no territorial concessions. But a closer look tells a more complex story.

A group of female political prisoners incarcerated in Iran's notorious Evin prison have published a letter expressing concern about the conditions they endure at the institution.