Day: September 28, 2025

Three years after Russia organised sham annexation referendums in southern and eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin is still hunting down independent journalists in the occupied territories. Arrested, tortured, or forced into exile, these media professionals have been silenced and replaced by propaganda mouthpieces. With 26 media professionals imprisoned, Russia is the biggest jailer of Ukrainian journalists. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) highlights the plight of these journalists, detained for refusing to bow to Kremlin propaganda.

* * *

Here are the key events on day 1,313 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Thomas Jacob Sanford, who police say attacked a Sunday morning mass a Michigan church, was an Iraq War veteran and outdoorsman.

Two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard are being placed under federal control and deployed to protect immigration enforcement officers and government facilities.