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A gunman killed 14 people and wounded dozens of others at a university in downtown Prague, Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan and police chief Martin Vondrasek told reporters on December 21, describing the event as a “profound” tragedy that “will have many consequences.”
After a disappointing summer counteroffensive, Kyiv is again on the defensive as Russian forces grind forward in the Donetsk region. While Western financial support wavers, Ukrainian troops fighting near Bakhmut rely on low-cost DIY 'kamikaze' drones and a World War II field gun to push back Russian advances. Speaking with Current Time in a frontline dugout, one Ukrainian drone pilot described this stage of fighting as "a war of technologies."
A gunman opened fire at a university in downtown Prague on December 21, killing at least 14 people and wounding many others. The shooter was also reported dead following the attack, which authorities said was "unprecedented" in the Czech Republic. Professors and students described being caught in the midst of the violence to reporters from Current Time, a Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
More cities are experimenting with face biometrics in public transportation but the rollouts are proceeding at very different paces.
A defrocked Russian Orthodox priest in Kazakhstan says he'll build an autocephalous church that's not subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate and Russian propaganda. Iakov Vorontsov, forced out after joining hundreds of other clergy to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, says he just wants peace.