A court in southern Russia convicted 15 captured Ukrainian soldiers on terrorism charges Friday after a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law.
The military court in…
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While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Washington DC, where he’s expected to ask Donald Trump for access to US-made…
Item 1 of 3 Dmytro, 13, talks during an interview, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 14, 2025. After fleeing Mariupol due to the onslaught of Russian troops in 2022 and reaching Finland, Dmytro was lured back into Russia…
First came the sound of drones. Then a boom that rattled windows. Shortly after that, two columns of black smoke rose over the Shebelinka gas processing plant in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region. Towering flames threatened storage tanks.
A refinery…
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Riding high on acclaim for his role in brokering a ceasefire in Gaza and the return of Israeli hostages, U.S. President Donald Trump is turning his attention to the conflict he long boasted he would end on his first day back in office: Russia’s…
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Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that he would speak to…
Vladimir Osechkin, a Russian living in France who leads Gulagu.net, a non-governmental organisation that specialises in uncovering Russian abuses, told AFP he was the target “of…
