A leaked classified report shows that a Russian jet nearly shot down a British spy plane near Ukraine last year, an incident that appears to have been closer to pulling NATO into the war than publicly disclosed.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is bolstering its defenses on its border with Russian-aligned Belarus, laying down thousands of antitank mines.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects around the globe.
“Life and Fate,” a novel about a Soviet society torn apart by war, is one of the books he has, his friends say, as he is held in Lefortovo prison days after Russia’s Federal Security Service arrested the Moscow-based Wall Street Journal reporter and charged him with espionage. Gershkovich, along with the Journal and the U.S. State Department, has denied Russia’s accusations of spying. His appears to be the first case of Russia arresting a foreign journalist and accusing him of espionage since the end of the Cold War.
“It’s deeply ironic he’s reading that book in jail now,” said Pjotr Sauer, a friend of Gershkovich’s and a journalist who covers Russia and Ukraine for the Guardian.
Friends and colleagues who spoke to The Washington Post’s Timothy Bella emphasized how they’ve come together to do whatever they can to help free Gershkovich — a high school soccer star in New Jersey, a philosophy major in Maine, a curious reporter in Russia.
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