Ukrainian investigators accused Artyom Tareyev, born in 1995, for ordering Russian troops to shoot civilians in Bucha, resulting in approximately 13 deaths on just one intersection of the streets.
Russian spies don't innovate - they study and update decades-old KGB manuals, says Andriy Kohut, who oversees the world's largest collection of declassified Soviet intelligence files that Moscow mistakenly abandoned in Ukraine.
The case, brought by Ukraine in 2016, challenges Russia's actions in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Kerch Strait since the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
At the Venice International Film Festival on September 5, Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova unveiled her documentary, Russians at War, which portrays Russian soldiers in Ukraine as victims while glossing over their crimes against civilians. The film has sparked backlash for its one-sided narrative, with critics calling it Russian propaganda.
The Russian invasion caused around $388 million in damage to the “Holy Mountains” National Park in Donetsk Oblast, with lots of its territory burned or mined.