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Patriarch Kirill sits at a white table in black-and-white Orthodox vestments, looking toward the camera as several people stand around him.

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Russian Church installs Soviet military veteran to lead occupation-created diocese in Kherson Oblast

After Patriarch Kirill consecrated him in Moscow, Igor Pashentsev will oversee Russian Orthodox parishes across five occupied Kherson districts.

byDaniel Thomas

Two children handle rifles as a uniformed man demonstrates a weapon on a table outdoors.

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Russia weaponizes Ukrainian children in occupied territories. Ukraine singles out those responsible

At a competition in May, children practiced handling explosives and piloting drones across Russian-occupied Ukraine, according to HUR.

byDaniel Thomas

War-damaged apartment blocks in Mariupol with burned facades, shattered windows and exposed interiors.

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Russians are buying seaside apartments built on the ruins of the Mariupol homes Russia bombed—DW

Russian occupation authorities ordered some residents out of apartments that survived the siege, sending them to hostels or Mariupol’s outskirts, according to DW sources.

byDaniel Thomas

Close-up of equipment at the base of a communications tower behind a metal fence in a wooded area.

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One tower linked two Russian regiments near Kharkiv border. Ukrainian partisans say they disabled it

ATESH says damage to the tower slowed Russia’s 345th and 380th motor rifle regiments and made it harder for them to support each other.

byDaniel Thomas

Residents, many elderly and carrying shopping trolleys, gather outdoors in occupied Oleshky, Kherson Oblast.

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A 12-year-old dies in occupied Kherson Oblast where no hospital or ambulance is left, Ukrainian official says

The official says the nearest hospital in the town where the child died is 60 km away. Russian authorities have sent no aid to the city for over a year

byDaniel Thomas

Covers of Russian “Donbas and Novorossiya” history textbooks for students in grades 5–7.

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Russia’s education minister calls it “objective.” A new textbook teaches Ukrainian children that their occupied region is historically Russian

Two new textbooks, compulsory from 1 September for grades 5–7, recast Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson Oblasts as Russian soil.

byDaniel Thomas

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Russian hackers accessed doorbell cameras to track Ukraine-bound weapons, Dutch intelligence says

Many of the compromised devices used default passwords and outdated firmware, according to the services' findings.

byMaria Tril

Ochakiv and the Kinburn Spit Map. Source: Deep State.

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One small Ukrainian peninsula still gives Russia strategic edge in Black Sea. Here’s why

Russia is using the Kinburn Spit as a strategic position to obstruct maritime access from Mykolaiv ports.

byOlena Mukhina

Semikolodezyanska oil depot in Yedi-Quyu (Lenine), occupied Crimea, amid a Ukrainian drone attack. Screenshot from video: Ukraine's Special Operations Forces

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Russian-occupied Crimea imposes electricity restrictions after grid breakdowns amid Ukrainian strikes

Ukraine has intensified strikes on Crimea’s transport and logistics network, targeting rail, fuel, and supply routes supporting Russian forces in southern Ukraine.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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“Nuclear blackmail” – IAEA reports attack on power infrastructure tied to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Ukraine says only demilitarization can restore safety at the occupied facility.

byBenjamin Murdoch

The Kerch bridge, also known as the Crimean bridge

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Russia is holding at least 100 people in occupied Crimea with no contact with outside world and no lawyer — and no trials

For the same charges that brought 7–10 years before 2022, courts now hand down 10–20, a Ukrainian rights monitor says.

byOlena Mukhina

Welcome sign leading into Tiraspol, the capital of the Moldovan breakaway region of Transnistria. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

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Russia fast-tracks citizenship for Moldova’s occupied Transnistria – a familiar playbook returns

Russia has eased citizenship rules for residents of the Moldovan breakaway region Transnistria, reviving a policy approach previously used in other contested regions.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Aftermath of the Russian invasion of Mariupol. Photo: Sergey Rysev

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Russia seizes 900 Mariupol apartments from owners it forced to flee

Russia is redistributing nearly 900 Mariupol apartments. The owners fled the bombing. The new tenants will be Russian officials

byAlexander Moisseenko

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Three months absent from your shop in occupied Luhansk? Russia declares it “ownerless” and takes it

Russia targets 150 commercial properties in occupied Luhansk for “nationalization,” including shops left vacant for three months or with one unpaid utility bill.

byYuri Zoria

People in Oleshky wait for food supplies. Photo: BBC

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Drone-and-mine siege: Ukraine takes Oleshky crisis to UN as 2,000 civilians starve in occupied city

Russia rejects humanitarian corridor as Ombudsman pursues longer route.

byAlexander Moisseenko

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Russia blacked out Europe’s largest nuclear plant 15 times since occupying it in 2022

The latest outage hit on the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, with Energoatom saying external power failed for 90 minutes.

byYuri Zoria

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu during an interview. Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS

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“We will use all available methods” — Shoigu threatened Moldova over Transnistria. Available methods are limited: Ukraine is in the way

He invoked the Donbas playbook, warned of intervention to protect 220,000 Russian passport holders, and accused Chișinău of "blockade."

byYuri Zoria

A heavily-protected Russian entry point into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia in March 2014 (Image: Kommersant.ru)

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Russia hands Crimea’s main detention center to FSB

The transfer reverses a concession Russia made to the Council of Europe in 2005. Detention centers in Crimea are already at 103% capacity.

byAlexander Moisseenko

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Occupied Donetsk’s drinking water crisis is so bad that Russia is now proposing heavy-metal-laced mine drainage as a substitute

Ukraine linked the pattern explicitly to officials' interest in maintaining their posts and access to financial flows from Moscow, rather than solving the underlying crisis.

byYuri Zoria

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Children informing on parents, teachers beaten, collaborators later jailed — researcher details Russia’s occupation playbook

The Russification plan for occupied Crimea was copied for captured parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, but was met with unexpected resistance, and took three and a half years instead of the nine months Russia anticipated.

byYuri Zoria

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Russian Church installs Soviet military veteran to lead occupation-created diocese in Kherson Oblast

Russia weaponizes Ukrainian children in occupied territories. Ukraine singles out those responsible

Russians are buying seaside apartments built on the ruins of the Mariupol homes Russia bombed—DW

One tower linked two Russian regiments near Kharkiv border. Ukrainian partisans say they disabled it

A 12-year-old dies in occupied Kherson Oblast where no hospital or ambulance is left, Ukrainian official says

Russia’s education minister calls it “objective.” A new textbook teaches Ukrainian children that their occupied region is historically Russian

Russian hackers accessed doorbell cameras to track Ukraine-bound weapons, Dutch intelligence says

One small Ukrainian peninsula still gives Russia strategic edge in Black Sea. Here’s why

Russian-occupied Crimea imposes electricity restrictions after grid breakdowns amid Ukrainian strikes

“Nuclear blackmail” – IAEA reports attack on power infrastructure tied to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Russia is holding at least 100 people in occupied Crimea with no contact with outside world and no lawyer — and no trials

Russia fast-tracks citizenship for Moldova’s occupied Transnistria – a familiar playbook returns

Russia seizes 900 Mariupol apartments from owners it forced to flee

Three months absent from your shop in occupied Luhansk? Russia declares it “ownerless” and takes it

Drone-and-mine siege: Ukraine takes Oleshky crisis to UN as 2,000 civilians starve in occupied city

Russia blacked out Europe’s largest nuclear plant 15 times since occupying it in 2022

“We will use all available methods” — Shoigu threatened Moldova over Transnistria. Available methods are limited: Ukraine is in the way

Russia hands Crimea’s main detention center to FSB

Occupied Donetsk’s drinking water crisis is so bad that Russia is now proposing heavy-metal-laced mine drainage as a substitute

Children informing on parents, teachers beaten, collaborators later jailed — researcher details Russia’s occupation playbook

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