Category: 2. RussianAggression

Maryya Kalesnikava, a key figure in the Belarusian opposition and a symbol of defiant protests against the country’s authoritarian regime, has been held incommunicado in prison for 18 months amid fears over her reportedly declining state of health. Kalesnikava was an opposition activist who in… Continue Reading

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been recruiting Ukrainian children to set cars belonging to Ukrainian military personnel on fire. An exclusive RFE/RL investigation has spoken to children as young as 12 who torched cars and other government property to earn some quick money. Continue Reading

Ukraine’s military said Wednesday it shot down 51 drones that Russia used to target the country in overnight attacks. The intercepts took place over the Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil and Zhytomyr regions,… Continue Reading

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he had been briefed by Ukrainian intelligence services about what he described as North Korea’s effective involvement in Russia’s war in his country. He provided no further details in his nightly address on October 14. Zelenskiy claimed on October 13 that… Continue Reading

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Paris has called for companies shipping Russian gas to be better identified at EU ports in an effort to stop an increase of Russian fossil fuels coming into the bloc. France, along with… Continue Reading

American couple Tyler and Nikki Chay are trying to keep the world’s focus on the war in Ukraine in their own unique way … by running … over 1,200 kilometers across Ukraine. From the Central Ukraine town of Khmelnytskyi, Tetiana Kukurika has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. (Camera: Sergiy… Continue Reading

BRUSSELS —  EU energy ministers met in Luxembourg on Tuesday to discuss the bloc’s rising Russian liquified natural gas imports, Ukraine’s energy shortages ahead of winter and how to balance energy prices across member states, officials said. The EU agreed on a 14th package of sanctions in… Continue Reading

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —  Iran condemned new EU and British sanctions on Tehran and denied providing ballistic missiles to Russia, spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baghaei, said in a post on X on Tuesday. The European Union agreed on Monday to impose sanctions on seven… Continue Reading