Ukraine: Sovereignty, Democracy, and Zelenskyy
By: Alexander Smith President Takes Part in Events on Ukraine's Constitution Day. Image: The Presidential Office of Ukraine. Photo. On the morning of February 24th, 2022, armed Russian soldiers crossed the border into Ukraine in what Russia called a “special military operation.” Explosions rocked Donetsk and Kharkiv. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy quickly found himself bearing the brunt of overextended economic resources and fractured international support. As a resu
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Putin critic Semyon Skrepetsky shot dead in Poland
Copyright AP Photo 16 July 2026 Skrepetsky was known for his caricatures comparing Putin to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. A Russian artist well-known for satirising President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead in eastern Poland, officials said on Tuesday. "An investigation is being conducted...into the murder of a 44-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation...known in the media as Semyon Skrepetsky," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Lublin, Marcin Kozak, told journa
'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
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Arrests, raids, beaten Azerbaijanis in Russia
Relations between Russia and Azerbaijan, once considered close, have sharply deteriorated amid a series of high-profile confrontations...
The Kyiv Independent
Jul 9, 2025
26 freed in major Russia-West prisoner exchange
The prisoner swap is the biggest between Russia and the West since the Cold War [White House via AP Photo] Russia has freed Wall Street...
Al Jazeera
Aug 4, 2024
Hungary barred as host of EU meeting due to Ukraine policy
By Christy Cooney Viktor Orban has been at odds with most of the rest of the EU about the appropriate response to the war in Ukraine....
BBC News
Jul 24, 2024
Russian court sentences US journalist to 16 years in prison
Evan Gershkovich in court in Yekaterinburg on 26 June before his trial. Photograph: AP A Russian court has found the American journalist...
The Guardian
Jul 19, 2024
Kyiv Children's Hospital destroyed by Russian missile
Reuters July 9. 2024 By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth Men install wooden boards in a damaged surgery ward following a Russian missile...
Reuters
Jul 12, 2024
Russia Country Report: 2024
Russia Country Report May 2024 By Genocide Watch Ukraine mothers protest mass rapes by Russian troops in Bucha Credit: United Nations...
Genocide Watch
May 3, 2024
Vatican says Russian aggression must end in Ukraine
By Gavin Jones Faithful gather to pray for peace in Ukraine, amid Russia's invasion in Ukraine, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican,...
Reuters
Mar 16, 2024
Russia is turning Ukrainian teenagers into soldiers.
By Ivana Kottasová , Olga Voitovych and Svitlana Vlasova Teenagers attend a ceremony at a military-patriotic educational camp in Russia's...
CNN 1
Mar 16, 2024
US targets Russia with more than 500 new sanctions
BBC By George Wright and Will Vernon A flower and a picture are left as a tribute to murdered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny,...
BBC News
Mar 15, 2024
