Sgt. Mikhail Khokhlov, 37, has been arrested for allegedly killing his commander, Lt. Ivan Krivosheev, and wounding another soldier in the neck after the pair were said to have drunkenly mocked the gunman's last name .
The Prosecutor General's Office has identified two Russians involved in the shooting of Ukrainian children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko and the murder of three more people during the occupation of Kharkiv Oblast.
Russian forces’ ongoing efforts to advance on the Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka have hit a roadblock, with the desired swift breakthrough proving elusive, U.S-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War or ISW has said in its latest report on the situation in Ukraine.
Ethnic tensions between Ossetians and the Russian military are causing a rift in Russia's 42nd Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment that is defending against a Ukrainian counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.