Category: 2. RussianAggression

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. One woman was killed in a Moscow suburb and several people were injured after Ukraine launched a mass drone attack on central Russia overnight, forcing the capital to suspend… Continue Reading

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk launched a four-week session of the UN’s Human Rights Council with a call for global leadership to avert a “dystopian future,” invoking urgent warnings about the treatment of women in Taliban-led Afghanistan and Ukrainians under… Continue Reading

Russia’s military said Tuesday it destroyed 144 Ukrainian aerial drones launched in overnight attacks targeting regions across western Russia. Air defenses shot down 20 of the drones over the Moscow region, where Governor Andrey Vorobyov said drones damaged apartment buildings and homes in… Continue Reading

Illegitimate local elections in Russian-occupied Crimea concluded on September 8. The voting, which was denounced by Ukraine and not recognized by most countries of the world, will most likely solidify the local elites’ grip on power on the illegally annexed peninsula. From September 6-8,… Continue Reading

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In another time and place, Serhii Plokhy might have been described as a Stakhanovite, a name derived from a Soviet movement called after a coal miner who supposedly mined… Continue Reading

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kazatomprom’s chief executive has warned that Russia’s war on Ukraine is making it harder for the world’s largest uranium producer to keep supplying the west as the… Continue Reading

Washington —  The transfer of ballistic missiles from Iran to Russia would signify a “dramatic escalation” of Tehran’s support for Moscow, and the United States is prepared to respond with “significant consequences,” the State Department said Monday. U.S. media outlets reported last week… Continue Reading

Russian attacks overnight killed and wounded several Ukrainian civilians at various locations, Ukrainian officials reported on September 8, shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine was continuing “long-range solutions” aimed at forestalling Russian air strikes… Continue Reading