Russia on Friday sentenced a Crimean man to 14 years in a penal colony on treason charges after it accused him of aiding the Ukrainian military.

Moscow regularly sentences people it accuses of working for Ukraine or of criticizing Russia's military offensive there, now in its third year, and has orchestrated a massive crackdown.

Russian media said

Russian investigators seized 75 items, including snow and underwear, from the scene of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s death, the investigative news outlet Dossier Center reported Friday, citing documents it said it had obtained.

Navalny died in an Arctic penal colony on Feb. 16 under murky circumstances, leading his allies to assert that he was

President Vladimir Putin has all but abandoned the idea of peace talks with Kyiv following Ukraine’s Kursk region incursion, which dealt a “humiliating” blow to the Russian leader, the independent Poyasnitelnaya Zapiska (Explanatory Note) news outlet reported, citing sources close to the Kremlin.

“The Kremlin has come to a corresponding conclusion t