Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow over the weekend, as thousands of people attended the funeral of the prominent Kremlin critic despite a heavy police presence and fears of a potential crackdown by authorities, NBC News reported. Navalny’s body was first...
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Russian authorities returned the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his mother over the weekend, more than a week after the Kremlin critic died in an Arctic penal colony in mysterious circumstances, Sky News reported. Navalny’s spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, confirmed that officials handed over the...
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Near the front line in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian soldiers detail how two years of fighting their giant neighbor, Russia, is wearing them down, as they cope with losses, fatigue and shortages. Titushko, 39, explained to the Guardian how he and his men, part of...
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Ukrainian and Spanish intelligence officials confirmed this week that a former Russian pilot, who had defected to Ukraine last year, was found shot dead in southern Spain, a death that came a few days after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison,...
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Authorities in Russia detained more than 400 people who participated in memorial gatherings across the country over the weekend, following the death of opposition leader Alexey Navalny in prison, the New York Times reported. Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition figure and critic of President Vladimir Putin,...
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This week, the US Senate passed a $95 billion military aid package for its allies, including Ukraine and Israel, in a 70-29 vote. Kyiv said the funding was crucial as the war with Russia enters its third year. The aid package must still be approved...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a shake-up of the military and fired the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the BBC reported Thursday. In an interview with Italian public television Rai on Sunday, the president had said he was considering sacking Zaluzhnyi, a...
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This week, Ukrainian officials confirmed that its weapons firm Lviv Arsenal and officials from the Ukrainian defense ministry were involved in a fraud scheme over a 2022 artillery shell deal worth $40 million, the Associated Press reported. The ammunition was never delivered, while the money...
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This week, the battle of Adviivka has been a peculiar epicenter of the war in Ukraine. Troops from both sides continued to clash in the town, located in the Russian-claimed Donetsk region but controlled by Ukraine, resulting in heavy casualties – and new brigades continue...
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This week, Ukrainian military intelligence said that Russia was now attacking defense industry sites, Business Insider reported, after long aiming missiles at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. Despite killing thousands of Ukrainians and leaving others without heating in the wintertime, the initial strategy failed to tame the...
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Russians joined other Eastern European nations in celebrating their Orthodox Christmas last weekend, though the war on the border dampened the festivities. Russian President Vladimir Putin invited the families of soldiers killed in the conflict to Christmas Eve services at his Moscow residence. Meanwhile, Patriarch...
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In 2022, a Russian court sentenced Vladislav Kanyus to 17 years in jail for “torturing, suffocating and stabbing” his girlfriend. Today, following a pardon for his crimes by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kanyus is fighting for Russia in Ukraine, reported the Washington Post. A similar fate...
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Earlier this month, the European Union paved the way for Ukraine to join the bloc, thanks to a move by a European leader to eliminate the roadblock presented in the form of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Politico reported. Orban had threatened to veto the...
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This week, a cyberattack hit Ukraine, particularly affecting its largest mobile network operator, the Washington Post reported. More than 24 million subscribers of provider Kyivstar both in-country and abroad lost service, preventing the delivery of air-raid warnings to their mobile phones. Among them was the...
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This week, US authorities charged four Russian soldiers with war crimes for allegedly abducting and torturing an American citizen living in Ukraine, the BBC reported. The American, residing in Ukraine since 2021, was held for about 10 days in April 2022, enduring mock executions and...
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The admission shocked Ukrainians who have shown little but resolute courage as they tried to fend off the Russian forces that invaded their country in February last year. In an interview with the Economist, the commander of Ukraine’s forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, confessed that the...
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This week, Russian forces increased their attacks in eastern Ukraine, particularly in the industrial town of Avdiivka, as they seek territorial gains before the year’s end, Agence France-Presse noted. Avdiivka is strategically important but is surrounded on almost three sides by Russian troops. Ukrainian forces,...
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This week, Ukraine celebrated the tenth anniversary of the pro-Europe Maidan Revolution, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the “first victory” against Russia, Al Jazeera reported. The series of mass protests taking place on Kyiv’s Maidan Square in 2013 called on the Ukrainian government to distance...
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This week, a Ukrainian military officer, Roman Chervinsky, is alleged to have coordinated the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, damaging three out of four pipelines running under the Baltic Sea, according to Voice of America. The United States and NATO...
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This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin revoked Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), a move aimed at aligning Moscow with the United States, which has signed but not ratified the treaty, Al Jazeera reported. The CTBT, drawn up in 1996, bans all nuclear...
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