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The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast is destroyed, releasing a huge amount of water downstream on the Dnieper. The dam had held back 18 cubic kilometres of water in the Kakhovka reservoir.
2023-06-6

Two people are killed and three others are injured in a "record drone attack" on Kyiv. Ukrainian authorities say they have shot down 52 of 54 drones.
2023-05-28

The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that it destroyed a Patriot air defense system in Kyiv. However a United States official says that the system was likely damaged but not destroyed.
2023-05-16

The European Council agrees to donate a billion euros worth of ammunition to Ukraine through an EU financing instrument.
2023-04-13

In a landmark bankruptcy case the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal in Moscow rules cryptocurrencies are property and demands access to a party's Bitcoin reserves.
2018-05-7

Emergency teams comb snowy fields outside Moscow Monday for debris from a crashed Russian airliner and the remains of the 71 people who died. Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov says that emergency teams have already found the plane's flight data recorder, which will help them determine the crash's cause, but notes that the search for the victims' remains will take at least a week.
2018-02-12

A Ukrainian court sentences two Russian nationals to 14 years in prison each on charges of fighting alongside Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Moscow contends that the two Russians were no longer employed by the state when they were captured.
2016-04-18

A gay rights protest against the views of Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov is broken up with eight people arrested.
2010-09-21

Three alleged organisers of Moscow suicide bombings in March 2010 are killed after apparently resisting arrest.
2010-05-13