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Amid claim and counterclaim about Russia's war in Ukraine, open-source intelligence analyst Ruslan Leviyev says Russia has suffered at least 500 killed so far. Leviyev, founder of Conflict Intelligence Team, said his figure was based on videos posted online by Ukrainian civilians after battles.
Russians in several cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Samara, have taken to the streets again to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mobile-phone footage showed a column of Russian troops with military vehicles opening fire as they advanced through the streets of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on February 27. Other videos taken by residents showed burning military vehicles.
Street fighting broke out in Ukraine’s second-largest city and Russian troops are squeezing strategic ports in the country's south following a wave of attacks on airfields and fuel facilities elsewhere in the country.
Hundreds of anti-war protesters took to the streets of the Russian city of Yekaterinburg on February 26 to denounce their country's military invasion of Ukraine. Chanting "no to war," many of the protesters said they were ashamed of their nation and several were detained by police.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was a grave miscalculation that will inflict huge costs not only on Ukraine but Russia as well, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service.
Kyiv braced for another night of artillery and cruise missile attacks from Russian forces after Ukrainian forces put up tougher-than-expected resistance in pitched battles across the country as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged defiance in the face of overwhelming firepower.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, speaking to Current Time on February 25, outlined that the United States wants to provide support to Ukraine "in whatever way is possible under the circumstances."
Residents of Kyiv witnessed large explosions above their city in the early hours of February 25, a day after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Security forces have broken up anti-war protests in several cities across Russia after the country's troops launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
Residents of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, located near the Ukrainian border, have expressed mixed reactions to their country's full-scale attack on Ukraine.
People gathered at the railway station in Kostyantynivka, in eastern Ukraine, hoping to catch a train to safety following Russia's invasion on February 24. A tearful woman said she had heard Poland would take refugees, while a man said his family would go "wherever there's an open door."
Ukrainian soldiers whom Current Time caught up with on February 23 in the Donetsk city of Horlivka -- a town on the front line with Russia-backed separatists -- said they have noticed a change since Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the separatist entities as independent states.
Analysts consider what could come next in the unfolding crisis, after Russia recognized separatist areas in eastern Ukraine as independent states and ordered troops into the territory they control. While some see war as "inevitable," others argue there may still be scope for compromise.
More Russian military vehicles were being moved to Crimea on February 20 amid fears of a major Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On February 19, Current Time correspondents caught up with passengers on buses that were part of a convoy of evacuees from Donetsk and its environs to Taganrog in Russia’s Rostov region.
Evacuation orders and a dramatic jump in cease-fire violations blamed on Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine is raising concerns that Moscow is trying provoke Ukraine and draw it into a war.
Video recorded by Current Time on February 18 shows Russian military equipment and personnel in several areas of the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.
The director of a documentary about jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny reveals how he shot his award-winning film.
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