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Court in Moscow confiscates 123 real estate assets belonging to Jehovah’s Witnesses

A Moscow court has confiscated more than 123 properties belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses and transferred them to the Russian state on 31 July 2026

Russian strikes kill at least 15 civilians in Ukraine on 30 July – Ukrainian police

Russian strikes on 30 July 2026 killed 15 civilians in Kyiv and the Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Lviv and Kherson Regions (Oblasts) and wounded at least 67 others, including in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv Oblasts

Ukrainian parliament revises draft law increasing payments for children with disabilities: What the new amounts will be

A Ukrainian parliamentary committee on social policy has recommended that Parliament consider Bill No. 14191 for a repeated second reading. The bill would strengthen state support for children and people with disabilities since childhood, with monthly payments of up to 16,000 hryvnias

Russian FSB operative Yagudin Eldar faces prison time over torture in occupied Kherson

An officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has been charged in absentia with cruel treatment of civilians and other violations of the laws and customs of war for allegedly torturing a civilian in the occupied Kherson Region

Families with children, elderly rescued from Russian strikes in Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson regions

Police officers and volunteers have evacuated several groups of civilians, including families with children and elderly people, from the Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson Regions

Russian appeal court upheld sentence against 66-year-old Melitopol resident Iryna Sukhovii

In May 2025, FSB officers detained pensioner Iryna Sukhovii. The illegitimate "Zaporizhzhia Regional Court" subsequently sentenced her to 12 years and six months in a general-regime penal colony for "high treason". The Russian occupying authorities accused her of providing financial support to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In 2026, the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in Moscow upheld the sentence and dismissed Sukhovii’s appeal. Aleksandr Pushkin, a judge at the court, issued the ruling