A Moscow court denied an appeal on Thursday by Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who asked to end his pretrial detention in Russia, where he was jailed and charged with espionage 12 weeks ago.
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A Russia-backed official said that Kyiv's military had struck a bridge connecting the rest of Ukraine to occupied Crimea, a peninsula well behind the front lines and one that is vital to Moscow's war effort. The region has increasingly become a target of attacks.
Safety and security at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine remain “extremely fragile,” the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, even as the authorities there plan to alleviate an urgent problem by pumping more water to cool the plant’s six reactors.