🇷🇺 Hugo Boss has sold its Russian business to wholesale partner Stockmann for an undisclosed fee, the German fashion house said on Monday, joining the ranks of Western brands to exit the Russian market over the war in Ukraine.
🇺🇦 #Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh completed her trophy cabinet with the women's Olympic high jump gold medal on Sunday, clearing 2.00 metres in front of an adoring crowd at the Stade de France.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian pilots have started flying F-16s for operations within the nation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, confirming the long-awaited arrival of the U.S.-made fighter jets more than 29 months since Russia's invasion.
🇺🇦 #Ukraine on Sunday announced the mandatory evacuation of children and their guardians from areas in the Donetsk region, where #Russia has been claiming advances in recent days.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russians attacked the Sumy Oblast using the KAB glide bombs, mortars, artillery, and FPV drones. The Oblast administration recorded at least 126 explosions in the region. In total 12 municipalities came under fire.
🇺🇦 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit three African countries this week in an effort to drum up support for Kyiv's position in its war with #Russia, his ministry said on Sunday.
🇷🇺🇪🇬 #Russia has been deploying foreign volunteers, namely residents of #Egypt, to fight in its war against #Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine’s Operational Tactical Group "Kharkiv" reported on Aug. 4.
🇷🇺🛢️ A large vessel docked at #Russia’s liquefied natural gas export plant in the Arctic last week, according to satellite images, in what appears to be the first move to circumvent US #sanctions against the facility.
🇳🇪 An al Qaeda affiliate in West #Africa's Sahel region has taken two Russian citizens hostage in #Niger, according to a video released by the group on Friday.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian shelling of a residential area killed one person and injured two on Saturday in this strategic logistical hub in #Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the regional governor said.
🇺🇦 #Ukraine's Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announced on Aug. 3 that he had appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations in response to a photo that allegedly shows the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war executed by #Russia
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Ukrainian military said on Saturday that it had sunk a Russian submarine and damaged an S-400 anti-aircraft missile system in the illegally-occupied Crimean peninsula.
🇷🇺 Musician and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir died in a pre-trial detention center in Birobidzhan, the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region of #Russia, the Telegram channel "Vot Tak" reported on Aug. 2, citing Kushnir's friends.
🇷🇺 #Russia is inflating the true number of new contract soldiers it is recruiting by one-and-a-half times, according to a joint investigation by Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team.
🇫🇷🇺🇦 Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo awarded Ukrainian athletes on Thursday with the Grand Vermeil Medal, the French capital’s highest distinction, as a move of solidarity during the 2024 #Olympics
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