In September last year, the CPS charged five other Bulgarian nationals for alleged conspiracy to conduct espionage. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement Tuesday that Bulgarian national Tihomir Ivanchev, 38, was charged with conspiring to collect information “which might be or was intended to be directly or indirectly useful for a purpose prejudicial to the safety and interest of the state.” The Basmanny court in Moscow ordered the arrest in absentia of Navalny’s other lawyer Olga Mikhailova and Alexander Fedulov on the same charge on February 15, according to the courts of general jurisdiction of the city of Moscow.īritain’s prosecution service has charged a sixth person for allegedly spying for Russia in the UK. Navalny's three other lawyers - Vadim Kobzev, Alexey Liptser and Igor Sergunin - were arrested in October 2023 and accused of "being members of an extremist community,” according to Navalny’s team. One of Alexey Navalny’s lawyers was released after being detained in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, according to Vasily Dubkov’s comment to the Russian Independent media Verstka, following his release.ĭubkov was the lawyer who flew with Navalny’s mother to Salekhard - the Siberian town where Navalny's body was being kept in a morgue - in order to receive official confirmation of his death, according to Verstka.ĭubkov “did not comment on the reason and circumstances of his detention, saying only that he considered it to be an obstruction of his lawyer’s activities,” Verstka said.ĬNN cannot independently verify Verstka's reporting. Saldo said there were no victims following the attacks and posted the video of the destruction on the cites to his Telegram channel. Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed acting head of the Kherson region administration, also confirmed the attacks but claimed they were carried out by drones. She said “an enemy shell exploded near the territorial election commission in the Holoprystanskyi municipal district,” which is in Kherson region as well. This was not the first incident when Ukraine was trying to sabotage the election sights on Tuesday, according to Zakharova. Zakharova said that Tuesday was “the first day of early voting in the presidential elections in hard-to-reach and remote settlements, including those located along the line of military contact.” Marina Zakharova, the head of the Russian-appointed Electoral Commission of the Kherson region, said in a video message on Tuesday that “as a result of a terrorist attack by Ukraine” in Nova Kakhovka “the premises of precinct commissions were damaged.” The Center of National Resistance called on citizens of Ukraine who are currently residing on the occupied territories, not to participate in the upcoming Russian election and warned that “every collaborator who helps organize the 'election process' will be held accountable for their actions.”
The National Resistance Center which is run by Ukraine's Special Forces said the attack was carried out in order “to stop the fake election process in the captured city” as the preparations are underway for the Russian presidential elections in March. Ukraine’s National Resistance Center, an official body, said Tuesday that Ukrainian resistance forces blew up an office of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “United Russia” party in the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson region. Here's how to help Ukraine as Russia's full-scale invasion enters its third year.US President Joe Biden stressed the "urgent" need for Ukraine aid before a meeting with top congressional leaders, as his administration ratchets up pressure on lawmakers to pass additional funding for Ukraine ahead of a partial government shutdown deadline this week.In response to Macron, a Kremlin spokesperson said that conflict between Russia and Western nations would be inevitable if that happened. NATO and leaders from multiple countries said there are no plans for troops on the ground in Ukraine, after French President Emmanuel Macron floated the possibility of sending European forces.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces have retreated from three villages in the eastern Donetsk region over the past week, as Russian forces intensify attacks and push west.