Moscow's current strategic goal in its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine remains securing control over the eastern part of the country known as the Donbas, the British Ministry of Defense said, a day after Russian air strikes on Kyiv during a visit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Norway says it will close its borders and ports to Russian trucks and ships, joining sanctions imposed by the European Union over Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
The former leader of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in St. Petersburg says she has been ordered to pay 3.9 million rubles to police to compensate city law enforcement for costs related to the dispersal of unsanctioned rallies against Navalny’s arrest in January 2021
Russian forces have used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a pro-Ukrainian rally in the occupied city of Kherson, Kyiv said, a day after Russia claimed to have taken control of the southern region.