Up to date September 24, 2023 at 1:10 p.m. EDT|Printed September 24, 2023 at 2:32 a.m. EDTRussian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza stands in a glass cage at a Moscow courtroom in July. Kara-Murza, a Washington Submit opinions contributor, has been transferred to a maximum-security jail in Siberia and was positioned in a tiny “punishment cell.” (Dmitry Serebryakov/AP)Vladimir Kara-Murza, a outstanding Russian opposition determine and critic of the Kremlin who has been imprisoned for talking out in opposition to the struggle on Ukraine, has been transferred to a maximum-security jail in Siberia, his lawyer mentioned Sunday.Kara-Murza, a Washington Submit opinions contributor, was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in jail in April after publicly denouncing Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. The U.S. State Division has mentioned he’s being held unjustly on politically motivated prices.Right here’s the newest on the struggle and its ripple results throughout the globe.Kara-Murza has been positioned in a tiny “punishment cell” in a maximum-security facility in Omsk after being transferred from a detention middle in Moscow, his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov mentioned in a Fb submit. Based on Kara-Murza’s Washington Submit writer web page, the politician, historian and writer has led diplomatic efforts to denounce Russia’s human rights abuses and contributed to the adoption of focused sanctions on Russian human rights violators in america.Ukraine waged one other assault in Sevastopol on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula over the weekend, in line with a Kremlin-installed official, someday after a Ukrainian strike on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Russian air defenses intercepted missiles headed towards Sevastopol, the most important metropolis on the peninsula, Gov. Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote Saturday on Telegram.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with U.S. enterprise leaders to debate private-sector funding in Ukraine, he mentioned Sunday. Whereas on his journey to america, Zelensky mentioned, he met with Mike Bloomberg, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. Based on Andriy Yermak, the top of Ukraine’s presidential workplace, Zelensky mentioned the methods by which giant American companies may contribute to Ukraine’s reconstruction after the struggle.The web is being censored in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk area after a decree from its Russian-backed chief, in line with an exiled Ukrainian official. Petro Andrushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol’s Ukrainian mayor, mentioned Sunday that the Kremlin’s spy company has management of net visitors within the japanese area and {that a} Monday-through-Friday curfew has been reinstated and demonstrations have to be authorised by Russian-backed authorities.A Ukrainian drone struck an administrative constructing in Russia’s Kursk area, regional governor Roman Starovoyt mentioned Sunday on Telegram, including that the roof was “barely broken.”Russian airstrikes killed not less than one particular person within the metropolis of Berislav, in Ukraine’s southern Kherson area, the governor mentioned Sunday on Telegram. The hit comes amid an intensification of airstrikes by Russian forces within the space, mentioned Nataliya Gumenyuk, founding father of the Public Curiosity Journalism Lab. “The enemy is attacking considerably by air,” she mentioned.Ukrainian forces and their armored automobiles have pushed via Russia’s predominant line of defense on the struggle’s southern entrance, generally known as the “Surovikin line,” a neighborhood commander advised The Submit. The road, named for the previous head of Russia’s forces in Ukraine, contains a number of defensive belts — and Russia has extra important defenses behind it — highlighting the gradual development of Ukraine’s months-long counteroffensive.Russian customers are most likely experiencing localized diesel and gasoline shortages, Britain’s Protection Ministry mentioned Sunday, noting how Moscow had suspended nearly all gasoline exports final week. “The shortages are unlikely to be a direct results of the struggle,” officers mentioned, suggesting that there have been most likely a number of causes, together with seasonal upkeep of refineries and a rise in demand from the agriculture sector.Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov indicated little hope of resuming a Black Sea grain deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations to export grain by sea from Ukraine. After a speech on the United Nations, he described proposals to revive the deal, which Russia pulled out of this summer time, as “not sensible.”Lavrov additionally mentioned he’ll go to Pyongyang in October. North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a uncommon summit this month in Russia’s Far East, signaling that they may help one another within the face of broad condemnation from the West over their army and nuclear actions. In his speech Saturday, Lavrov criticized america and the West, accusing Washington of “whipping up hysteria on the Korean Peninsula.”Australia is asking for modifications to the U.N. Safety Council to make it extra consultant and to constrain veto powers. Russia, as considered one of 5 everlasting members with veto energy, “mocks the United Nations daily it continues its unlawful and immoral invasion of Ukraine,” Overseas Minister Penny Wong mentioned. Canberra desires extra illustration for Africa, Latin America and Asia, and everlasting seats for India and Japan.Western officers press Ukraine to carry elections regardless of struggle: Some officers within the West are pushing for Kyiv to carry common and presidential elections, even because it stays within the grip of struggle, an thought that’s perplexing Ukrainian officers.The proposal was initially raised in Europe however now has been taken up by some U.S. Republicans, together with Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) throughout a go to to Kyiv final month, write The Submit’s David L. Stern, Catherine Belton and John Hudson.“The Russians are pushing for this via their secret channels,” mentioned a Ukrainian official within the safety equipment, talking on the situation of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic. “There isn’t a scenario by which it’s potential to have a democratic election through the struggle.”Nick Parker contributed to this report.