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Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine heads into its second month  as fighting rages and Western allies unleashed another set of crippling sanctions on Moscow while promising more military support and aid to Kyiv.

Here are some of the highlights produced by RFE/RL's team of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visual journalists over the past seven days.

The European Union and the United States have struck a deal under which the bloc will receive at least 15 billion cubic meters of U.S. liquefied natural gas this year in an effort to wean itself off Russian gas imports.

U.S. authorities have accused three Russian intelligence officers of hacking U.S. nuclear companies and others for nearly six years, charging them and another man employed by the Russian Defense Ministry of computer conspiracy and other crimes.

Jailed Kremlin foe Aleksei Navalny gets a new, nine-year prison sentence, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu disappears for 12 days, and long-prominent government fixture Anatoly Chubais reportedly leaves Russia for good. Meanwhile, Moscow steps up its nuclear scare tactics as the war rages in Ukraine.

Authorities in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol say that according to eyewitness accounts, about 300 civilians died in a Russian air strike on a historic theater that was being used as a bomb shelter by hundreds of civilians.

The Heartland virus is circulating in lone star ticks in Georgia, according to a new study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Several leaders from European Union members have scoffed at Russia's demand that some "unfriendly" countries will be forced to pay for its natural gas and oil in rubles, saying the move is a breach of contract.

The Kremlin says it is expelling  a number of U.S. diplomats in reaction to Washington's move earlier this month to expel 12 Russian representatives to the United Nations based in the United States.

The UN General Assembly has adopted a nonbinding resolution demanding the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and an immediate halt to the war.