Life imprisonment for treason: Russian legislators in the country's lower parliament are set to consider imposing life sentences for those who commit acts of high treason.

Ukrainian defense forces repelled about 14 Russian attacks over the last 24 hours in the Bakhmut area, the General Staff said. Bakhmut: Battles continue between Ukrainian and Russian forces for Bakhmut, as Russian forces try to take 'full control' of the key eastern city, the Ukrainian military's General Staff said Friday.Russia has denied it is doing anything illegal. Ukraine has said there are thousands of cases of forced deportation of children under investigation. The children crossed the border back into Ukraine by foot and were accompanied by family members. Children return home: Thirty-one children returned to Ukraine after they were illegally taken to Russia, according to Save Ukraine, a Kyiv-based humanitarian organization.The Chinese LGBTQ blogger Haoyang Xu was arrested for allegedly violating a Russian law that bans so-called same-sex propaganda on Wednesday. The newspaper has rejected those allegations and has called for the journalist's 'immediate release.' Meanwhile, news emerged Friday of Russian authorities arresting another foreign media figure. The FSB, Russia's main security service, has claimed Gershkovich had been trying to obtain state secrets. American reporter formally charged: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been formally charged with espionage, Russian state media reported on Friday.Images of some of the documents - which include estimates of Russian casualties and a list of Western weapons systems available to Ukraine - were posted to the social media platform Discord in early March, according to screenshots of the posts reviewed by CNN. Documents posted to Discord: US officials say the documents are real slides, part of a larger daily intelligence deck produced by the Pentagon about the war, but it appears the documents have been edited in some places.

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