Ukraine

Voronov's wife reportedly told police that the founder and general director of the Astra-Shipping transport and logistics company had fallen out with business partners over money.

A small army of aid workers, child protection specialists and social workers have mobilized to help children escape the worst effects of conflict.

"The destiny of the whole country will be decided by the Donetsk region," Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said while calling on all of the region's remaining residents to flee.

The targets reportedly included the command post of the Ukrainian 25th Air Assault Brigade, deployed near Siversk.

A few rural homes or a farmstead were also seemingly destroyed by Ukrainian artillery.

Russia released footage allegedly showing an attack helicopter in action while claiming to have destroyed Ukrainian fighter jets and a Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The American military equipment was first developed in the 1990s for the U.S Army.

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said on July 3 that some of the damaged or destroyed Russian equipment has been "sold or exchanged for alcohol."

The multiple rocket launcher vehicles were reportedly BM-27 Uragans, while the special missile transporters were TZM-Ts.

The footage appears to show at least one Ukrainian howitzer opening fire on Russian positions and causing large explosions as the vehicles are destroyed.

Elite Ukrainian paratroopers reportedly took out Russian armored vehicles "in a flash," as images released by the Ukrainian military purport to show.

Russian Dmitry Shkrebets has been trying to find out about the fate of those aboard the sunken Black Sea flagship.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's order came after Moscow claimed a major victory in seizing the Luhansk region in Ukraine's east.

The cosmonauts, including ISS commander Oleg Artemyev, were pictured smiling with the flag after Russia claimed its forces had gained control of the region.

The WNBA basketball star and Olympic gold medalist, whose trial resumes on July 7, could face up to 10 years in jail in Russia on drug charges.

The prisoners are reportedly being offered $3,446 and amnesty for six months of "voluntary" service in the Donbas region—if they return alive.

The warning came as NATO's allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland.

While arguments can certainly be made both in favor and against defining Russia's war of aggression as a genocidal act, policymakers must keep this in mind: it has happened before.

In a rare rebuke, Ambassador Nicholas Burns called on China's Foreign Ministry to stop peddling the Kremlin's line on events in Ukraine.

In light of Moscow's recent capture of Lysychansk, footage appears to show Ukrainian forces facing off against Russian troops in the Donetsk region.

Clips shared on Telegram by Kyiv-based Ukrainian news agency UNIAN show missiles being intercepted midair.

Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said that people who rely on drugs to treat illnesses "are at risk and cannot wait for the occupiers to deliver medicines."

Ukrainian military officials said Saturday its artillerymen destroyed a Russian Pantsir-1S missile system, shown in released images.

Ukrainian forces reportedly hit a Russian ammunition depot in the Donetsk region at night, causing a massive explosion.

The missile system, which appears to be a Buk-M1, can be seen firing a missile high into the sky before it apparently hits an unknown target.

The Kremlin said it would "hardly be considered appropriate" for Russia to wish Biden a happy Independence Day.

A growing number of top Russian players are opting against playing for their country, according to Emil Sutovsky, FIDE's director general.

Russia rarely discloses its own military losses. Moscow last released figures on March 25, when a general told state media that 1,351 soldiers had been killed.

State Duma member Andrei Gurulyov said a new Cuban missile crisis could result in the beginning of negotiations between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine.

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