Belarus Country Report: November 2025
By Juliana Girotto Image: Lev Karavanov/Mostphotos Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Warning for Belarus. Five years since mass protests swept Belarus in 2020, the Lukashenko government has deepened its repression and involvement in human rights violations. Belarusians are denied the ability to exercise basic rights, including freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. In the February 2024 parliamentary elections and the January 2025 presidential election,
Genocide Watch
Mar 23
Russia dubs Narva, Estonia a 'people's republic'
Masked Russian "Little Green Men" in Narva, Estonia Copyright AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file Euronews March 19, 2026 By Johanna Urbancik & Franziska Müller A pro-Russian online campaign is casting the Estonian city of Narva as a "people's republic", spreading propaganda and at times calling for violence and sabotage. A flag, a coat of arms, freshly drawn borders – and rhetoric that echoes the playbook of the so-called "people's republics" in eastern Ukraine and Russian-occupied
How Russia Seeks to Resolve the“Ukrainian Question"
A Russian tank drives past destroyed residential buildings in Popasna, in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine . Source: Radio Free Europe, credit: Alexander Ermochenko (Reuters) The publication "How the Russian Federation Seeks to Resolve the “Ukrainian Question”. Certain Indicators of Genocide by the Russian Federation in the Context of Its Armed Aggression against Ukraine" is an analytical study produced by the Luhansk Regional Human Rights Centre Alternative (LRHRC Alter
'It's Not A War Crime If It Was Fun.' : Russian General
Radio Free Europe February 20th, 2026 Major General Roman Demurchiev has served as commander of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, fighting in Ukraine. On October 18, 2022, roughly eight months after Russia launched its all-out war on Ukraine, a high-ranking Russian officer texted several messages to his wife and several acquaintances back home in Russia. The officer, then-Colonel Roman Demurchiev, commander of the 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division, bragged about how his so
Genocide Watch
Feb 23
Poland pulls out of treaty banning antipersonnel mines
Poland needed to defend itself against Russia, a country which “has very aggressive intentions vis-à-vis its neighbors,” the country's deputy defense minister said. An unmanned mine-scattering vehicle is pictured during an open test of unmanned weapon systems conducted by the Polish Armaments Group on Thursday. Wojtek Radwanski / AFP via Getty Images Poland will use antipersonnel as well as anti-tank land mines to defend its eastern border against the growing threat from Rus
AP News
Feb 21
France Grants Safe Haven To Anti-Kremlin Couple Detained By ICE
Tens of thousands of Russians have applied for political asylum in the United States since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Many detainees have been subjected to arbitrary detention (Michael M. Santiago) France has granted safe haven to an anti-Kremlin Russian activist couple detained by ICE in the United States, but his wife was nowhere to be found after he landed in Paris on Monday. After France issued the couple humanitarian visas to avoid them being deported to Russi
Anna Smolchenko | AFP
Feb 16
Estonian 'fascist' calls for Russian invasion
Prosecutor's Office crest. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR A Kohtla-Järve politician who is a self-described fascist and who has called for a Russian invasion of Estonia may face a fine or even detention for hate speech over social media, Delfi reported . Aleksandr Sahno, 32, who ran in last autumn's local elections in the Ida-Viru County town of Kohtla-Järve, where picked up eight votes, came to the attention of the authorities after he shared materials on social media supporting Russi
ERR News
Feb 4
Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 2 Million
The New York Times January 27, 2025 By Helene Cooper The number of deaths, injuries and missing is approaching a grim milestone after nearly four years of fighting. The funeral of a Ukrainian soldier in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, last year. The latest accounting of casualties came after talks among Russian, Ukrainian and American officials ended on Saturday on a rare positive note. Credit: Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times The number of Russian and Ukrainian troops killed, wound
'We need support, we need help,' Ukraine energy provider CEO says during Kyiv blackout
Copyright Danylo Antoniuk/2026 The AP. All rights reserved By Gavin Blackburn Published on 22/01/2026 - 15:35 GMT+1 Russia has repeatedly hit Ukrainian energy infrastructure throughout the nearly four-year war, but Kyiv says this winter has been the toughest yet. The CEO of Ukraine's largest energy provider DTEK is in Davos and spoke to Euronews about what an energy ceasefire can mean for Ukrainians. Maksym Timchenko's comments come a day after Ukraine's President Volodymyr
Euronews
Jan 22
Sinking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’: Has the Ukraine war reached Senegal?
A Turkish-owned oil tanker that recently visited a Russian port was heavily damaged by explosions off the coast of Senegal last Thursday. While Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the attack, the bombing follows a campaign targeting ships accused of belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” – raising suspicions that the Ukraine war has spread all the way to West Africa. By: Sébastian SEIBT Dec. 3, 2025 The oil tanker Mersin was hit by a series of explosions off the coast of Da
France 24
Dec 6, 2025
Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea
Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea, expert tells US Senate. The Kyiv Independent By Dmytro Basmat December 4, 2025 Regional Center for Human Rights Legal Expert Kateryna Rashevska holds up a photograph of what she said are abducted Ukrainian children taken to North Korea as she speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on "The Abduction of Ukrainian Children by the Russian Federation" on Capitol Hill on December 3, 2025
The Kyiv Independent
Dec 3, 2025
The Ten Stages of the Russian Genocide in Ukraine
Source: EU Debates, News & Opinions The Ten Stages of the Russian Genocide in Ukraine By Emily Mullin And the Genocide Watch Ukraine Team Talks about a negotiated settlement of Russia’s war against Ukraine have dominated international headlines. As many hope that President Trump can talk Mr. Putin into ending the Russian invasion, we must never forget the incalculable suffering Russia has inflicted on the Ukrainian people. Russia has committed every war crime and crime ag
Emily Mullin | Genocide Watch
Nov 20, 2025
