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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 672: Ukraine strikes back against Russia on land, sea, cyber fronts
Ukraine unleashed attacks on multiple fronts against the Russian invasion this week, blasting a ship in the Black Sea and breaching an enterprise management system, which resulted in million-dollar losses for Russia.
Europol: Key ransomware suspects arrested in Ukraine
Europol leads an international operation that successfully dismantles a Ukrainian ransomware group, causing substantial global financial losses.
Russian shelling injures four Ukrainian police officers in eastern Ukraine
Russian shelling injured four officers of Ukraine's National Police in frontline Siversk, Donetsk Oblast, the Interior Ministry says.
Russian cluster munitions target police unit delivering aid to Avdiivka’s residents
"Despite everything, the 'White Angels' managed to deliver bread to the local residents," Ukraine's Interior Ministry said.
Ukrainian police nab group trying to steal Banksy graffiti in Hostomel
Ukrainian police have detained a group of offenders who cut off graffiti by British artist Banksy from a…
“This is ordinary genocide in the 21st century.” Ukrainian police chief on Russian war crimes
After the liberation of Izium from Russian occupation on 10 September in Ukraine’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, a mass…
With fake blood and “On Crimea” banners: Ukraine detains group suspected of planning mass violent riots
The police first reported about the group on 30 January, but gave more details at a briefing on…
“Eternal” Minister of Interior Avakov leaves. Ukraine’s police problems stay.
On 15 July, a historic vote for the resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov took…
Belarusian police detain and beat teenagers, injure 5-year-old
Unprecedented brutality against peaceful protesters opposing the falsified presidential election giving dictator Lukashenka an implausible victory are ongoing…
Avakov: Master of the People, Servant of the Siloviki
ACT I – LOOKING BACK: ELECTION CAMPAIGNS AND POWER DUALISM Avakov’s political options During the presidential campaign [of…
Minister Avakov keeps dodging political responsibility for heinous police crimes
The chronic lawlessness within police forces has served as a trigger for society’s outrage and led to civil…
A year after, Ukrainian activists still ask who ordered Kateryna Handziuk
[editorial]One year after Kherson activist and city official Kateryna Handziuk died in a hospital after suffering severe chemical…
Drunk cops suspected of killing 5-year old kid, sparking demands for Ukrainian Minister to resign
It’s 31 May, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi city, Kyiv Oblast, the eve of International Children’s Day. Some police officers find Friday…
Ukrainian activist attacked with acid dies in hospital. Mandator of murder still not found
Those who ordered her murder still not found.
Epidemic of attacks on activists in Ukraine – result of aborted police reform
On 15 October, Daryna Aleksandrova heard her car alarm go off on 3 AM. It was too late…
Attacks on civic activists in Ukraine reaching critical level, encouraged by unreformed police
Kateryna Handziuk had just come out of her apartment when an unknown attacker splashed a litre of sulfuric…
Ukraine’s photogenic “new cops” went viral, but the real police reform is yet to start
Plans to transform the law enforcement bloc in Ukraine were up in the air immediately after the success…
Investigative documentary on journalist’s murder finds leads that cops didn’t, traces to SBU
When Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet was murdered in Kyiv on 20 July 2016, President Petro Poroshenko said that…
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy: We’re plunging straight into hell!
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet…
Unpunished for Maidan pacification, Berkut militia becomes Ukraine’s New Police
Ukraine’s glamorous new Patrol Police is only the tip of the iceberg in Ukraine’s law-enforcement system reform. A vast…