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POLITICSOct 9Russian prosecutors cancel criminal case against investigator over missing jewelry seized from influencer Valeria ChekalinaSome of the jewelry seized during a search of blogger Valeria Chekalina’s home has gone missing, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said on Telegram. Authorities opened a criminal investigation into one of the investigators in the case against Chekalina, who is known as Lerchek.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 9A Ukrainian missile strike killed 20 Russian officers in occupied Donetsk. It was the largest known loss of Russian officers in a single attack since the invasion, Mediazona reports.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 9Russian search engine Yandex struggles after Ukrainian strikes on data centresBBC World
CONFLICTOct 9Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi foils Russia’s plan to encircle the Donbas, ISW analysis showsUkraine’s counter-offensive on the Lyman axis collapsed the northern arm of a Russian pincer movement aimed at surrounding Ukrainian-held Donetsk, liberating up to 176 square kilometres and forcing Russian units onto the defensive, the Washington-based think tank said.EuroNews [en]
WORLDOct 9First Russian to sue organizers of Kanye West’s canceled concerts receives 132,000-ruble ticket refundSay Agency, the organizer of Kanye West’s canceled concert in St. Petersburg, has refunded 132,000 rubles to Voronezh resident Yevgeny Rasskazov, the first person in Russia to sue the company over the cancellation, his representative told TASS.Meduza [en]
HEALTHOct 9Did Russia play by the rules in reporting lab worker's death?A global treaty signed by 197 countries — including Russia — requires reporting any death that could be a sign of an outbreak to come.NPR News
CONFLICTOct 9Russians attack Rivne region, injuring family with many childrenUkrinform [en]
MILITARYOct 9Russia proposes raising maximum age for women’s military serviceThe Russian government has submitted a bill to the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, that would raise the maximum age for women in military service from 45 to 50. The bill appears in the State Duma’s database.Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Montenegro expels founder of Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, citing ‘potentially dangerous’ activitiesMontenegro is expelling Mikhail Zvinchuk, founder of the Russian pro-war Telegram channel Rybar, from the country. News of his detention emerged on the morning of October 9.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 9In Mali, the recapture of the city of Kidal offers a symbolic victory to the junta and its Russian allyDÉCRYPTAGE - Les Forces Armées Maliennes (FAMa), épaulées par des mercenaires russes et des loyalistes touaregs, ont repris cette ville tenue par les rebelles depuis une offensive générale en avril.Le Figaro International
POLITICSOct 9Nikolai Rybakov, chairman of Russian opposition party Yabloko, fined 1,000 rubles for writing ‘For Peace’ on his ballotA St. Petersburg court fined Nikolai Rybakov, chairman of Yabloko, 1,000 rubles on an administrative charge of petty hooliganism.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 9The Kyiv Independent: Russia wants sanctions lifted in exchange for halting strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructureMeduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 9Siberian teen reportedly dies by suicide after studying and working at Alabuga, where drones are assembled for Russia’s war in UkraineA 16-year-old in Novokuznetsk died by suicide after spending four months working and studying at the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, where drones are assembled for the war with Ukraine, the outlet Echo reported. Echo said it has obtained an appeal from the teenager’s parents (it does not specify to whom the appeal was addressed) and a death certificate.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 9‘The smell of death is everywhere’: Inside the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Russian-occupied Oleshky, where hundreds are trapped without food, electricity, or medicineMeduza [en]
POLITICSOct 9Arrested German spy chief lashed out at his old agency over allegations he spied for RussiaPolitico Europe
HEALTHOct 9Russia says all clear after contact tracing in reported plague caseRussia has detected no health issues or dangerous micro-organisms after tracing all contacts of a woman who reportedly died of plague, the governor of Siberia's Irkutsk region said Thursday. Russia has not confirmed the woman died of plague, and Governor Igor Kobzev said in his statement she had contracted "community-acquired pneumonia".France 24 [en]
POLITICSOct 9Ukrainian woman detained at Russia's request leaves Kazakhstan and is now in EU – lawyerUkrainian national Liubov Rozhanska, who was detained in Kazakhstan at Russia's request on suspicion of abducting a child, has managed to leave Kazakhstan and travel to an EU country.Ukrinform [en]
CONFLICTBREAKINGOct 9Ukraine pushes Russia back in Donetsk as military, civilian casualties soarAl Jazeera [en]
CONFLICTBREAKINGOct 9Russian guided bomb strike on Zaporizhzhia injures 14, kills oneUkrinform [en]
CONFLICTOct 9Russian guided bomb strike on Zaporizhzhia injures 14, kills oneukrinform · ukraine
CONFLICTBREAKINGOct 9Ukraine takes aim at Russia’s AI data infrastructureAl Jazeera [en]
CONFLICTBREAKINGOct 935 killed in strikes on Ukraine's Donetsk region as Russia reports four dead across BelgorodEuroNews [en]
POLITICSOct 9EU paid €7.9bn for Russian Arctic LNG amid record importsEuroNews [en]
CONFLICTOct 9Russian forces attack two energy facilities in Dnipropetrovsk regionUkrinform [en]