Ukraine extradites Russian soldier to Lithuania over war crimes against Lithuanian citizen
A rare act of international justice sees a suspected war criminal handed over for alleged torture in occupied Melitopol.
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Ukraine kills Russian officer from unit linked to Bucha massacre
Ukrainian Defense Intelligence announced that Veniamin Mazzherin was killed in a car explosion on 25 October in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast.
Russian drone directly strikes civilian vehicle. Two Ukrainian journalists die
Olena Hubanova and Yevhen Karmazin died on 23 October while documenting the war and Russian crimes in their native Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian prosecutors detail beating injuries that killed mayor who refused to collaborate with Russian occupiers
Yevhen Matvieiev was abducted at a checkpoint in March 2022 and spent two years and 8 months in Russian captivity.
Swedish MP becomes OSCE special envoy for abducted Ukrainian children. Russia erases their identity and turns into future soldiers
Carina Ödebrink will lead international efforts to address Russia's forced removal of more than 19,000 Ukrainian children from occupied territories.
“The world is simply watching”: Russian strike kills 15-year-old Anastasia, her mom and grandparents in their Lviv Oblast home
Rescuers found the bodies of 15-year-old Anastasia Hrytsiv and another relative in severely damaged condition.
Russian drone killed French photojournalist Antoni Lallican in eastern Ukraine
Journalist unions call the killing a war crime and demand an investigation into the attack. French President Emmanuel Macron expressed sorrow over the death of Lallican, killed by a Russian attack.
US senators urge use of $300 billion frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s defense at no taxpayer cost
Republican senators John Kennedy and Lindsey Graham joined Democratic senators Richard Blumenthal and Sheldon Whitehouse in the resolution, arguing that increasing the financial costs of continued military operations would pressure Putin to end the war.
They were 6 and 4, asleep in their beds—then a Russian drone came for them, their parents, and their unborn twin siblings
Rescuers pulled the bodies of two boys, along with their parents, from the ruins in Chernechchyna, Sumy Oblast.
Russia stages prisoner inspections by concealing tortured Ukrainian POWs, OSCE experts reveal
The independent expert mission concluded that Russian authorities deliberately hide evidence of torture by showing international monitors only prisoners in relatively good physical condition, while over 90% of returning POWs report abuse in captivity.
Russian commander orders his troops to kill civilians in frontline villages. Soldiers execute parents and take their daughter captive as human shield
Russian troops are still holding a young girl to prevent Ukrainian forces from firing on their positions.
Second Russian double-tap strike in Ukraine’s Chernihiv Oblast leaves firefighters hospitalized mid-rescue
Russian drones returned to hit the exact site first responders had just arrived to contain.
Ukraine’s SOF strike in Kursk Oblast destroys hub for Russia’s 810th Marine Brigade
According to the military report, the attack wiped out depots, equipment stores, and hidden weapons supporting Russian operations near Kharkiv and Sumy.
BBC: Ukrainian civilian freed after years in Russian captivity — his story is one of beatings, starvation, and survival
Journalist Dmytro Khyliuk spent three and a half years in captivity without charges before finally returning home in a rare swap.
33 Russian guards, medics, commanders: InformNapalm links POW abuse in Mordovia to named Russian staff
The OSINT publication exposes those allegedly complicit in systematic violence against Ukrainian captives at IK-10 colony.
Russia claims it only targets “military objects” in Ukraine. But recent Russian strike killed toddler born during war and her mom
Moscow's assertion of targeting exclusively military and defense industry facilities in Ukraine contrasts with the death of civilians spanning ages from toddlers to elderly residents.
Russians captured him, cut his throat, and left Ukrainian POW to die. He survived and wants revenge for tortured comrades
National Guard soldier Vladyslav was dragged into a basement near Pokrovsk and watched how the Russians tortured seven Ukrainian defenders before they slashed his own throat and dumped him in a pit with their bodies, thinking he was dead. He was not.
Ukrainian journalist abducted from his garden in 2022 returns from Russian captivity weighing less than 45 kg
Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk returned from Russian captivity in the latest exchange on 24 August, weighing less than 45 kg (99 lbs), as he spent three years in Russian prison after his abduction near Kyiv in 2022.
Ukrainian civilians pay price as Russian attacks continue despite Trump’s peace attempts
Fourteen civilians required medical treatment in northeastern Sumy Oblast after overnight strikes hit residential areas.
Russia kills family with five drones in Ukrainian region, which is under Washington’s negotiation agenda
Moscow's coordinated drone assault on sleeping civilians tests whether targeted family killings can influence the peace talks in Washington.