On September 30, 2020, the international task group presented a preliminary report assessing the effectiveness of the investigation into the killing of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and Russian human rights activist Andrei...
Aleksei Khudanov, the journalist I was arrested in Minsk on the night of August 9-10, and spent the first night in the Frunzensky District Department of Internal Affairs and three days in a prison in Zhodzina. At first, I was thrown into...
The police brutality of Lukashenka’s regime against Belarusian civilians peacefully protesting a rigged vote is appalling. Around 7,000 Belarusians who came out to the streets have been detained according to the latest official data,...
It has become a tradition at the beginning of each new year to look back at the successes and failures of the last year. Unfortunately, international readers, viewers, and listeners did not learn much about the successes of Ukraine, a...
Nataliya Korolevska is known to have supported the Russian occupation of Ukraine, from the end of 2013 and early 2014. She was active in facilitating the creation of the “LNR” and has made separatist statements and proclaimed...
The sentence was pronounced after a long trial, which Markiv’s lawyer, Raffaele Della Valle, who was also one of Enzo Tortora’s lawyer in the famous court case on organized crime in Naples in 1983, was shocked by the verdict,...
The Donbas war is all in the pale, waxy face of Yaroslava Nykonenko, thirty-six years old, red nail polish, long and sharp black eyelashes that appear between the raised collar of the camouflage and the ordinance beret. She smiles is in...
Yaroslava’s father, Serhiy Nykonenko never knew his own father, who had abandoned his family; Serhiy’s mother died after a serious illness when Serhiy was only nine years old. He was raised by his grandmother and grandfather,...
Vitaliy remains optimistic and writes that the fight for Ukraine continues on all fronts, and he is also fighting his battle on his own front line. Vitaliy is an example for us all, a strongly motivated young man who never gives up and is...
August 9 My Ilovaisk began five years ago… From the very start of the day, there’s been a flurry of activity. I work non-stop from 7 to 11a.m. The vehicle is nearly loaded by the time I’m relieved by Shaman. We help...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
