Tax data shows that shopping-center firm Epitsentr K, a Ukrainian military donor, for years paid a manager who cultivated close ties with the pro-Russian forces in the occupied part of the Donetsk region while managing a firm nearly identical to Epitsentr K, Schemes has found.
RFE/RL correspondent Maryan Kushnir traveled with a Ukrainian demining team as they tried to clear roads in territory retaken from Russian forces near Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region. The team is trying to secure safe passage for Ukrainian troops as they attempt to advance, but the sappers say it could take decades to fully demine the region.
Russia stepped up its shelling of Kherson, striking the southern Ukrainian region 100 times in 24 hours, killing civilians and causing widespread damage, a regional official said on October 13.
The homes of three lawyers who previously defended jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny have been searched by Russian law enforcement agents, the head of Navalny's legal team, Vyacheslav Gimadi, announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, adding that they are suspected of participation in an extremist community.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on October 12 recognized the Holodomor the starvation of millions in Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader Josef Stalin as genocide.