Russian occupation authorities announced Tuesday the movement of further large numbers of people from Ukraine's Kherson region amid a counteroffensive by Kyiv, which has already seen 70,000 people flee.

"I decided to extend the evacuation zone by 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Dnipro," pro-Moscow governor Vladimir Saldo said in a Telegram video.

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A Russian court on Tuesday fined Wikipedia 2 million roubles ($32,600) over articles related to Moscow's offensive in Ukraine.

A Moscow-based group that supports projects by Wikipedia's owner Wikimedia said it was fined by Moscow's Tagansky district court for refusing to remove two articles related to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin told Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday that he wanted "real guarantees" from Kyiv before potentially rejoining the grain deal. 

In a phone call, Putin told Erdogan that Russia sought "real guarantees from Kyiv about the strict observance of the Istanbul agreement, in particular about not using the

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Tuesday that he had been placed in solitary confinement for the seventh time in several months. 

The opposition figure, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence on charges of fraud, parole violations and contempt of court, said that he had just been released from his most recent spell in solitary