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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.
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.
From St. Petersburg to Siberia, Russians continue to voice opposition to their country's military invasion of Ukraine, with anti-war protests spreading to more than 50 cities on February 27.
A convoy of Russian tanks was passing through the town of Bakhmach in northern Ukraine on February 26, the third day of the Russian military invasion.
Thousands of people, many of them farmers, rallied in Isfahan in central Iran on November 19 to decry what they say is poor water management amid persistent drought.
Mobile phone video shared on Iranian social media shows people demonstrating in Tehran and Tabriz over water shortages, power outages, and a deteriorating economy. In a rare public display of dissent, protesters chanted slogans against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other conservative clerics.
A 73-year-old protester was seen struggling with riot police in Belarus in a video posted on Franak Viacorka's Twitter account on August 26. Bahinskaya has cut a distinctive figure at opposition protests for decades.
Hospitals in Kyrgyzstan are struggling to cope with a surge of COVID-19 cases. On social media, people are posting dire scenes and desperate messages after being turned away from overcrowded hospitals. The number of coronavirus cases in the Central Asian country has hit record levels, with more than 500 per day.
Prominent Belarusian opposition leader Mikalay Statkevich was detained on his way to a rally in the capital, Minsk, on May 31. A video posted on social media shows men in plainclothes and face masks as they stopped a car in which Statkevich was sitting next to the driver.
Iranians are increasingly worried about the coronavirus after the country reported two more deaths among 13 new cases of the disease on February 21.
Anti-government protests were filmed in Iranian cities on January 11 and 12. University campuses appear to be the centers of growing anger at the government after the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps acknowledged downing a Ukrainian passenger jet in error.
Amateur video appeared to capture the final moments of a Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed soon after taking off from Iran's capital, Tehran, on January 8.
