Georgia's parliament locked in criminal penalties for protest participation on 31 October, with 80 MPs backing amendments that make a third violation punishable by up to two years in prison.
In 2022, Vladimir Putin declared that one of his key goals was the demilitarization of Ukraine. Three and a half years later, even the Kremlin's most devoted mouthpieces can no longer deny the reality: Ukraine stands not demilitarized, but more militarized than ever, with self-sufficient production, expanding international facilities, and increasingly long-range precision weapons.
Aleksandrs Vabiks cursed aggressively in Russian and made explicit threats of "killing" based on the family's Ukrainian identity, while the wife is Ukrainian and the father is a Swiss citizen whose parents are from Belarus.
FSB threatened to take an 18-month-old from his mother over a Ukrainian soldier's contact in her phone. The boy was among eight children returned from occupation last week.
Ukrainian drone strikes have destroyed 38 percent of Russia's oil refining capacity and suppressed processing rates until at least mid-2026, inflicting more economic damage than all Western sanctions combined.
A teenager stabbed a 17-year-old Ukrainian boy to death at a Dublin emergency accommodation facility for asylum seekers on October 15, with gardaí arresting the suspect at the scene before he was hospitalized
A Russian ballistic missile attack on a Ukrainian training base on 16 October marks at least the sixth such strike on military training facilities since June