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For a Ukrainian unit serving in the Kharkiv region, days are spent moving heavy equipment, sending out reconnaissance units to locate Russian targets, and firing a 120-mm mortar.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says authorities are negotiating with the Russian side on a possible evacuation of dozens of seriously wounded Ukrainian fighters trapped inside the Azovstal metals plant in the devastated southern city of Mariupol.

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) has overwhelmingly approved a resolution to set up an investigation into allegations of abuses by Russian troops in areas of Ukraine they temporarily controlled.

U.S. sports apparel giant Nike has ended its 17-year cooperation with Russian Premier League Football club Spartak Moscow after the team was ruled out of next season's European competitions because of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

Russian poet and longtime RFE/RL Russian Service journalist Aleksei Tsvetkov has died in Israel at the age of 75.

Kosovo has officially applied for membership in the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights organization, in an effort to seize on the recent exit of Russia.

To address a growing deficit, Iran’s cash-strapped government is cutting major government subsidies. But the move is likely to come at a cost: potential civil unrest.

On the streets of the Serbian capital, supporters and opponents of Russia's invasion of Ukraine are making their opinions known with spray paint.

Tajik officials are demanding that hundreds of students be conscripted into military service or face expulsion from their universities, several students and officials claim. Many Tajiks try to avoid serving in the military, which is notorious for hazing that has led to deaths or severe injuries.

The trial of Sergei Furgal, the former governor of the Far Eastern Khabarovsk Krai whose arrest in 2020 caused monthslong protests in the region, has opened in a Russian court.