A military court of appeals reduced the prison sentences for theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk on charges of “justifying terrorism,” the independent news outlet Mediazona reported Wednesday.

Berkovich and Petriychuck were sentenced to six years in prison each in July over the content of their award-winning play,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday denounced what he called an "inhumane" attack from Russia, which launched dozens of missiles and drones on Ukraine's energy grid, killing one person and causing widespread blackouts.

The country woke up early Christmas Day to air raid sirens, shortly followed by air force reports that Russia had

Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister Qanat Bozymbaev told local media that 38 people were killed when an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed early Wednesday in the west of the country after veering from its scheduled route.

Earlier, Kazakh authorities said 32 people had survived the crash of the Embraer 190 near the city of Aktau, an oil and gas hub on