A U.N.-backed human rights expert monitoring President Vladimir Putin’s Russia has decried increased violence in the country caused by former prisoners who have their sentences shortened or pardoned to fight in Ukraine and then return home to commit

Ukraine accused Russia at an international court on Monday of flouting sea law by trying to keep the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea under its sole control. Kyiv began proceedings at the Hague-based intergovernmental Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 after Moscow began building the 19 km (12 mile) Crimea Bridge link to the peninsula it seized from Ukraine two years previously.

Russian authorities reportedly arrested Vladimir "Beliy" Novikov, commander of an assault detachment from the 110th Motorised Rifle Brigade. There are several possible reasons behind the arrest: one suggests Novikov attempted to stop Chechens from supplying drugs to the military;

The Mirror has confirmed that the Irish man was killed late last week while fighting for Ukraine against Russian invaders. The man was a former member of the elite Army Ranger Wing

Russia announced that it would take retaliatory actions against Portugal for providing Ukraine with six Russian Kamov helicopters that the Portuguese Ministry of Interior services previously used for firefighting.