UN monitors report “alarming rise” in Russian executions of Ukrainian POWs
THe UN says 79 cases of summary executions by Russians have been recorded since August 2023. Ukrainian authorities investigate dozens of such cases.
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“Putin’s Hitler-Jugend.” Russia builds tomorrow’s army with stolen Ukrainian children, Yale lab reveals
Russian military recruiters visit facilities housing deported Ukrainian children, delivering combat readiness lectures while the Kremlin creates special quotas for orphans in cadet schools.
Ukraine’s police shows faces of Russian soldiers who murdered civilians in Bucha
Ukraine's Police identified a commander who gave orders to intentionally shoot civilians who appear at a strategic intersection in Bucha.
“You torture Russians, too” UN says, as skeletal Ukrainian prisoners of war return from captivity
While Ukraine grants UN monitors full access to its POW facilities, Russian detention centers remain completely closed to outside observers. The condition of returning Ukrainian prisoners—marked by visible signs of torture and neglect—underscores mounting allegations of war crimes.
UN reports 574 Ukrainian civilians killed in fall 2024 by Russian attacks
OHCHR’s report also cites Russian attacks damaging infrastructure, grave humanitarian law violations, torture, and 62 executions.
“People lying without legs, thick black smoke, screaming, and no one around,” eyewitnesses describe horrors of Russian bomb strike on civilians
Russian launched guided bombs at the precise moment workers were streaming out of a major industrial facility in Zaporizhzhia, killing 13 people.
US Congress issues resolution to recognize Russian actions in Ukraine as genocide
Beyond documenting Russian mass atrocities in Ukraine, the congressional measure points to Putin's denial of Ukrainian sovereignty and state media's equation of "de-Nazification" with "de-Ukrainianization."
Ukraine’s energy system hit by 1,100 Russian missiles in 2024, Ukraine’a UN envoy says
Kyslytsia underscored Russia's declining power, rejected deceptive peace plans, and urged global support to prevent further aggression.
Russians execute four more Ukrainian prisoners of war near Pokrovsk
Two days before this war crime, the Russian military killed two other Ukrainian POWs in the same area, per the Ukrainian PG Office.
Ukrainian intel: Russian forces executed five captured Ukrainian soldiers near Vuhledar
Ukrainian officials note that the number of executions of Ukrainian POWs is increasing in the last few months of 2024.
Washington to announce extra defense aid for Ukraine in coming days, US UN envoy says
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemns Russia's 1,000-day invasion, highlighting systematic war crimes, nuclear threats, infrastructure damage, and international violations.
Ukraine’s FM presents KN-23 missile fragment at UNSC meeting as evidence of North Korean weapon use
Sybiha discussed Russia's heavy casualties, war crimes, threats to international security, calling for stronger sanctions and continued Ukraine support.
Chemical weapons watchdog finds prohibited CS tear gas use against Ukraine forces
An OPCW investigation found prohibited CS tear gas in grenade and soil samples from a Ukrainian trench after visiting Dnipropetrovsk Oblast at Ukraine's request.
Russian Black Sea Fleet missile ships commander killed in Sevastopol car bombing, source says
The commander reportedly died after an IED detonated under his vehicle on Taras Shevchenko Street.
Russians damage Kurakhove Reservoir dam in Donetsk Oblast
The damage on 11 November caused water levels to rise by 1.2 meters in Velykonovosilkivska Hromada, potentially affecting settlements along the Vovcha River in two oblasts.
Russian court in occupied Donetsk sentences 8 Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol for over 15 years
Eight members of Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade, who fought to protect the strategic port city of Mariupol, have been sentenced by a Russian-installed tribunal in Donetsk Oblast, operating outside international law.
Russia’s deadly missile attack on Zaporizhzhia kills six, injures 23 Ukrainians
Russia struck critical civilian infrastructure in the city at 9:37 with a ballistic missile, causing casualties and igniting a fire, per local authorities.
UK calls special UN security meeting to mark 1,000 days of Ukraine full-scale war
A British diplomat Barbara Woodward announced UN Security Council session on 18 November and underlined that many conflicts in the world can be linked to Russia.
Russian drone strikes across six districts in Kyiv ignite fire in high-rises, damage civilian homes
A police officer suffered smoke inhalation while helping residents escape a burning 16-story building in Kyiv's Sviatoshynsky district.
Russian artillery strikes kill three in Kherson, wound a child
Artillery shells hit high-rises in Kherson and multiple residential buildings in nearby rural areas on Sunday.
