At least six people were murdered and numerous areas of the war-torn country lost electricity on Thursday as a result of the heaviest Russian attacks on Ukraine in weeks. While the battle for control of the strategically important city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine continued on, Kyiv’s forces shot down nearly half of the missiles…
Four men, one of whom was still a teenager, were slain in December during an assault into Russia’s southern Bryansk region. Mourners, many of whom were wearing camouflage and hiding their faces, attended a service in a central church. The men, according to Russia’s FSB security force, were armed with weapons and explosives when they…
Russian representatives told the UN Security Council on Tuesday that Ukraine intended to use a “dirty bomb” in the conflict area, but Western diplomats said Moscow offered no proof for the assertion. The Security Council convened in secret to consider Moscow’s assertion, which was made public for the first time on Sunday, that it anticipated…
According to UN investigators, the fighting in Ukraine has resulted in war crimes, including Russian airstrikes of civilian areas, countless executions, torture, and horrifying sexual assault. Erik Mose, the leader of the investigating team, informed the UN Human Rights Council that “based on the information gathered by the Commission, it has decided that war crimes…
Evgeniy Maloletka, a Ukrainian photojournalist, received the Visa d’Or, one of his profession’s most illustrious awards, on Saturday for his coverage of the disastrous Russian siege of Mariupol At a ceremony in the southern French city of Perpignan, Maloletka dedicated his medal to the Ukrainian people, appearing visibly moved. The 35-year-old journalist, who works for…
The daughter of hard-line Russian thinker Alexander Dugin was killed in a car bombing on the outskirts of Moscow, according to Russia’s FSB security agencies on Monday. Dugin, a vociferous supporter of the Kremlin’s operation in Ukraine and an outspoken ultranationalist scholar, is believed to have been the attack’s intended victim. According to a…
Galyna Chorna breaks down in tears as she describes the Russian rocket attack that destroyed the flats above hers, smashing all of her windows, her door, and any remaining hope of protection. The 75-year-old woman is the only occupant of her nine-story building in Saltivka, one of Europe’s largest housing developments that Russia has shelled…
As Ukraine stated it had requested access to its soldiers being held by Russian forces, Russian energy giant Gazprom on Saturday cut off gas supplies to Latvia. The phone call came a day after a bombing in Olenivka, a region under the control of the Kremlin, that killed numerous people while detaining Ukrainian POWs. Dmytro…
Suspended gas supplies to Latvia following tensions between Moscow and the West over the conflict in Ukraine and sweeping European and US sanctions against Russia. The declaration came a day after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of bombing a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russian-held territory, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky saying…
Ukraine bombed a bridge this week that is vital to Russian soldiers occupying the town of Kherson, Ukrainian forces shelled the Antonovsky bridge overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday with US-supplied rockets, targeting a main crossing linking Kherson to the Dnipro River’s southern bank and the rest of the region, which is now almost entirely controlled…
