A Russian court sentenced Lyusya Shtein, a member of Pussy Riot and a former municipal deputy in Moscow, to six years in prison in absentia for anti-war social media posts, the court's press service said on Wednesday. Shtein, 27, was found guilty of spreading "war fakes" in connection ...
The United States believes that Russian PresidentVladimir Putinis preparing for a long conflict in Ukraine, and a Russian victory in the Donbas in the east of the country might not end the war, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said. "We assess President Putin is preparing ...
Two years since the start of the Russian invasion, the civilian death toll in Ukraine exceeded 12,100 as of October 2024, as verified by OHCHR.
Ukraine reportedly filed its first war crimes charges, accusing 10 Russian troops of taking hostages and torturing civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. The charges were announced by Ukraine's Office of the Attorney General in a post on Telegram, according toThe Washington Post. Ukraine set u...
Russia has not updated its formal count of combat deaths in Ukraine since September 2022, when it announced an unrealistically low figure of 5,937. The country has good reason to keep the toll secret. If it were known, public support for the war and willingness to fight might wane. ...
Beijing has refused to criticize the Russian assault or even describe it as an invasion or war, arguing that NATO and the West had failed to properly address Russia's "legitimate security concerns." As fighting erupted last week, the Foreign Ministry advised its citizens to display a ...
The Russian invasion is a demographic crisis that happened in the middle of a long-lasting larger demographic crisis. Through this invasion alone, Ukraine has lost an additional 7.3 per cent of its population in just the first month. The demographic crisis of the invasion is even murkier ...
The Russian president appears to hope he can bide time and wait for Western support for Kyiv to wither, while maintaining steady military pressure.
Death toll rises in Kharkiv following Russian strikes Firefighters extinguish a fire at the site of a destroyed hostel as a result of a missile strike in the second largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv late on August 17, 2022, amid Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. ...
Death toll from Russian missile strikes rises Ukraine's emergency services said the death toll has risen after Russia's mass shelling across the country on Monday. The latest information from the services found that 19 people were killed in the strikes across Ukraine, and 105 were injured. ...