Category: 2. RussianAggression

The Russian military is making heavy use of glide bombs, large Soviet-era weapons upgraded with new wings and navigation systems, in attacks on Ukrainian cities. A Ukrainian explosives team was able to defuse one 500-kilogram bomb that fell short of the city of Zaporizhzhya. But other bombs… Continue Reading

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he had visited the northern Sumy region, from where Ukraine recently launched a major incursion into the neighboring Russian Kursk region. Almost two months into the surprise operation, Kyiv’s troops control swaths of Russian border… Continue Reading

Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon continued on October 3 hours after a strike on an apartment building in downtown Beirut killed 9 people while a separate action in the West Bank eliminated a Palestinian militant who was once involved in the lynchings of Israeli reservists. The Israeli Army… Continue Reading

kyiv, ukraine —  Ukrainian feminist activists staged a topless protest Friday outside the Embassy of Iran, which Kyiv and the West say is arming Russia. Ukraine’s Femen group is a feminist art collective that has for years staged stunts in Ukraine and abroad, with its trademark move being… Continue Reading

Viktor Kalyberda, 63, lives in the village of Sulyhivka with no running water or electricity. The village, 170 kilometers from Kharkiv, was destroyed during the Russian invasion in 2022, not a single house was spared. All of the residents fled the village, yet Kaliberda chose to return and… Continue Reading

Israel’s incursion into south Lebanon continued on October 3 hours after a strike on an apartment building in downtown Beirut killed 9 people while a separate action in the West Bank eliminated a Palestinian militant who was once involved in the lynchings of Israeli reservists. The Israeli Army… Continue Reading

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. German authorities are investigating claims that a far-right politician used political prisoners as cheap labour at his farm in Belarus, the latest scandal to engulf… Continue Reading

KYIV, Ukraine —  The Ukrainian air force said on Friday that Russia attacked critical infrastructure in the country with 19 drones overnight. Air defenses shot down nine drones, with seven more likely impacted by electronic jamming, it said in a statement, without saying what happened to… Continue Reading

Sonya, a young Ukrainian girl, was being treated for eye cancer. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. Lynsey Addario, a photographer on assignment for The New York Times who has covered every major war and humanitarian crisis of her generation, tells Sonya’s story. Continue Reading

I’m Steve Gutterman, the editor of RFE/RL’s Russia/Ukraine/Belarus Desk. Welcome to The Week In Russia, in which I dissect some of the key developments in the country and in its war against Ukraine, and some of the takeaways going forward. To subscribe, click here. President Vladimir Putin… Continue Reading