The Prosecutor-General’s Office of Bosnia-Herzegovina has announced that it has closed its investigation into whether a centuries-old Orthodox icon gifted to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in 2020 was, in fact, a protected cultural treasure stolen from Ukraine.
Explosions have been reported near an area close to the building that houses the Moscow-backed separatist government of Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk, which is under Russian control.
The widow of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary who died in an unexplained plane crash in August two months after leading an unsuccessful mutiny, has officially changed her last name, the RBK news agency reported, citing registration data.
Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry said on September 18 that two Kyrgyz nationals and one Turkish citizen died in a helicopter crash in Turkey's western province of Izmir two days earlier.
Russia called on the UN's highest court in The Hague on September 18 to throw out what it said was a "hopelessly flawed" case challenging Moscow's argument that its invasion of Ukraine was carried out to prevent genocide.