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Demonstrations across Iran appear be to waning as security forces continued their deadly crackdown on protests that have shaken the country for two weeks.
People in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan continued their protests against the mobilization decreed by President Vladimir Putin last week. Videos shared on social media show Russian police using force against the protesters.
Iran has partially restricted access to the Internet and social media platforms as protests spread to at least 50 cities following the death of a 22-year old woman who was detained by the country's morality police.
Protesters chased police officers in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on September 20 as nationwide protests continued over the death of a 22-year-old woman who was detained by the country's morality police.
At least three people have been killed in Iran during protests over the death of a 22-year-old woman who was taken into custody by the country's hijab police.
At least one person was reported killed in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, on August 14 after a strong blast hit a fireworks storage area. The pyrotechnics were kept at the city's popular Surmalu market. Authorities expect that people could be trapped under the rubble.
With the cost of living skyrocketing, struggling Iranian pensioners and retired government employees held protests in more than 16 cities across Iran on June 6-7.
One person died as police broke up a demonstration in Khorugh, the capital of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region, on the border with Afghanistan on May 16.
Instead of running for cover, a Ukrainian paramedic comforted a wounded civilian as shells rained down on the eastern city of Kharkiv. At least five people were killed and a dozen were wounded on April 17 when apartment blocks were bombarded by Russian forces.
Ukraine's military announced that it destroyed a Russian naval transport ship in the port of Berdyansk on March 24. It could not be immediately verified if the explosions resulted from a Ukrainian attack or another cause.
Drone video revealed widespread devastation in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on March 22.
Russian troops occupying the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson fired live rounds and stun grenades at peaceful protesters. Amateur video appearing on social media on March 21 showed at least one person being wounded in the city's Liberty Square.
Amateur videos of Russian tanks and other armored vehicles being towed across fields and villages by Ukrainian tractors regularly go viral on social media. The military vehicles are usually abandoned, broken down, or out of fuel.
The mothers of Russian soldiers involved in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine angrily confronted the governor of Siberia's Kemerovo region, asking if their sons were "lied to" and being used as "cannon fodder."
A residential apartment building in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, was pounded by shelling as Russian forces continued attacking districts around the Ukrainian capital. Amateur video posted to social media on March 4 showed shells crashing into the high-rise building.
A Ukrainian civilian says Russian troops opened fire on his vehicle, killing his father as they were evacuating from the town of Ivankiv in the Kyiv region.
Residents of Melitopol, a city in southern Ukraine, gathered to protest the arrival of Russian troops on March 2 as Moscow continues its military invasion for the seventh day. The shots appear to be fired into the air by Russian forces in an attempt to disperse the protest.
A Ukrainian man was filmed seizing back Ukrainian flags which had been confiscated by Russian troops in the southern city of Kherson on March 2, and then waving them in front of a row of Russian tanks parked on the central square.
Hungry Russian soldiers have been seen looting grocery stores and banks in several Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian officials say a Russian air strike targeted the main TV tower in the capital, Kyiv, killing at least five people. Several videos of the strike were posted on social media and RFE/RL recorded the aftermath.
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