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Putin boosts internet-blocking spending as system may extend to occupied Ukraine

Russian authorities plan to spend nearly 60 billion rubles, or about $706 million, over the next three years to operate a system that filters and blocks online resources, Forbes reported, citing the draft federal budget.

6 October, 06:15 PM

Lithuania moves to ban Russian and Belarusian artists who support war

Lithuania’s government has approved a proposal to ban Russian and Belarusian artists and other cultural figures from performing in the country if they have worked in occupied Ukrainian territories, broadcaster LRT reported on Sept. 30.

2 October, 01:02 PM

Russian Deputy PM Marat Khusnullin took over as overseer of occupied Ukrainian lands

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin became the overseer of Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories in 2022, replacing Dmitry Kozak, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) reported on September 25.

25 September, 01:41 PM

EU condemns Russian parliamentary elections, rejects voting in occupied territories

The European Union condemned Russia's recent parliamentary elections for lacking independent international oversight amid systemic political repression, declaring that it will never recognize the voting staged in occupied territories of Ukraine, according to an EU statement released on September 21.

21 September, 01:31 PM

Ukraine calls Russian State Duma elections in occupied territories illegal and void

Russia will hold so-called State Duma elections from Sept. 18 to 20 in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories, elections that are illegal and whose results are legally null and void, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sept. 18.

18 September, 02:15 PM

Russia stages sham State Duma vote in occupied Ukraine amid coercion

Russia plans to hold another round of so-called State Duma elections on Sept. 18–20, 2026. The criminal Kremlin regime wants to draw occupied Ukrainian territories into the process.

18 September, 12:21 PM

Russia begins Duma vote to pave way for draft — The Guardian

Russia launched three-day State Duma elections to manufacture political legitimacy ahead of an anticipated mobilization, The Guardian wrote on Sept. 18.

18 September, 11:40 AM

ISW: Putin frames predetermined Duma vote as referendum on Ukraine war

Russia’s State Duma elections, which begin on Sept. 18, have predetermined results. Dictator Vladimir Putin is framing them as a referendum on support for the war against Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in a Sept. 16 report.

17 September, 11:12 AM

Russia starving occupied Oleshky near Kherson and blocking residents from leaving

The town of Oleshky in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast is under a humanitarian blockade, with no food deliveries since late May, residents going hungry, and Russian forces preventing people from leaving, the German newspaper Bild reported on Sept. 16.

16 September, 06:45 PM

Russia plans seven 'superprisons' by 2035, one in occupied Kherson

Russian authorities plan to build seven Federal Penitentiary Service complexes by 2035 combining pretrial detention centers and correctional colonies under different security regimes, including one in Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast.

16 September, 06:30 PM

Russian commanders use dead troops’ names in election fraud, Atesh reports

So-called “early voting” in Russia’s State Duma elections began on Aug. 29 in temporarily occupied territories, ahead of the official vote scheduled for Sept. 18–20. This has allowed Russia to launch a large-scale election fraud operation, the Atesh partisan movement reported.

11 September, 12:25 PM

Drones strike Russian military depots in occupied Donetsk Oblast

Strike drones targeted Russian-occupied territory in Donetsk Oblast, triggering blasts in occupied Snizhne and Shakhtarsk, Exilenova+ monitoring Telegram channel reported on Sept. 11.

11 September, 08:45 AM

Ukraine warns Russia may stage false-flag attacks during illegal Duma voting

Russia may stage provocations and false-flag terrorist attacks in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories during Russian State Duma elections, Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service said on Sept. 10.

10 September, 06:52 PM

Occupied Ukrainian territories ranked least free place in the world by Freedom House

Freedom House has ranked the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine as the least free place in the world for the second year in a row, placing them below North Korea, Gaza, and South Sudan in its global freedom assessment updated on Sept. 8.

8 September, 08:05 PM

Ukraine urges CIS observers to skip Russian vote in occupied areas

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry warned on Aug. 13 observers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) against visiting Ukrainian territories temporarily occupied by Russia, where the aggressor state plans to illegally hold voting as part of its State Duma elections.

14 August, 12:05 PM

Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Kuban-Crimea energy bridge and 5 air defense systems

Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces struck 11 energy facilities in Crimea and other occupied territories, along with five air defense assets, between July 12 and 13, according to the commander of the forces, Lt. Col. Robert “Magyar” Brovdi.

13 July, 06:32 PM

Expert explains reality of Crimea's looming blackout crisis - video interview

Continued strikes on energy infrastructure in temporarily occupied Crimea may lead to widespread and prolonged blackouts, Head of the Energy Industry Research Center Oleksandr Kharchenko told Radio NV.

30 June, 02:24 PM

HUR reports infected livestock carcasses buried near populated areas

Russian occupation authorities are creating conditions that could trigger and spread anthrax outbreaks in temporarily occupied parts of Kherson Oblast, HUR said on June 23.

23 June, 07:26 PM

Ukrainian drone strike sparks fire at Simferopol power plant

A fire broke out at a power plant in temporarily occupied Simferopol following a drone attack, local monitoring channels reported on June 12.

12 June, 11:01 AM

Russian proxy authorities suspend nighttime train travel in temporarily occupied Crimea

A ban on nighttime train passenger services is in effect in temporarily occupied Crimea, Russian proxy governor Sergey Aksyonov announced on June 9.

10 June, 08:35 AM

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