Russia keeps striking Ukraine’s northern border: this week, it killed three generations of one family
The boy's 31-year-old mother, his 10-year-old brother, and his 13-year-old sister survived the strike with injuries.
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Ukraine registered nearly 69,000 new Russian war crimes over the past year—with only 97 convictions so far
The tally comes from the country's chief prosecutor, who marked one year in office by posting the full scorecard and calling his own results "not enough."
Russia kills four firefighters in Kharkiv hitting the same spot twice in one night
All four served in the city's 6th State Fire and Rescue Unit, and their service mourned men it called heroes who carried no weapons.
SBU names 10 Russians tied to “human safari” drone hunt on civilians in Kherson
Counterintelligence built a case against Russian military drone pilots from a single regiment and charged each in absentia with war crimes.
Russian pilot saw man in Ukraine’s Kramatorsk and chose to kill him. FPV drones are operated in real time
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has formally classified these strikes as crimes against humanity.
On World Environment Day, Ukraine counted $156 billion in environmental damage from Russia’s war
Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, marked World Environment Day on 5 June with a damage assessment: $156 billion total, of which $90 billion in destroyed nature protection areas and $45 billion in polluted soils.
Russia has reportedly engineered missile that waits for first responders. Submunitions detonate 20-30 minutes after impact
The submunitions scatter hundreds of meters from the strike point and explode in the time window when rescuers and evacuating civilians are most exposed.
Russia bans military uniforms on fuel drivers after Ukrainian strikes burn tankers. They’re delivering to front line in bread vans and ambulances
Civilian fuel rationing has been visible in Crimea and in Kursk and Belgorod oblasts since spring.
Not only Putin: Ukraine charges two Russian commanders who ordered strike that killed three generations of one family
The April 2022 Kh-101 strike on a 16-story residential building in Odesa killed eight people, including three-month-old Kira Hlodan, her mother, and her grandmother.
Reuters: US funding cuts are stalling investigations into Russian torture and child abductions
The Trump administration slashed tens of millions of dollars for the work last year.
Russian operators deliberately wound pensioners aged 83, 80, and 69, who can’t escape their FPVs in Kherson Oblast
Russian drones wounded an 83-year-old man and killed a 64-year-old woman in her own home.
Russian operator saw funeral procession in Sumy on his screen and steered FPV drone into it, killing one person
A drone hit the bus carrying mourners the day after Ukraine's prosecutors released 11,000 cases of small-drone attacks on civilians.
Russia’s ex-combatants entering the EU is a risk flagged in a leaked threat assessment
The Council of the EU document was seen by RFE/RL and mostly covers 2025 trends.
Day of Mourning in Kyiv: final toll from Russian missile strike reaches 24 dead, including three girls aged 12, 15, and 17
The 28-hour search-and-rescue operation ended at the destroyed apartment block in Darnytskyi district.
Russia is killing journalists and jailing them as “terrorists,” Ukraine tells UN
At least 26 Ukrainian media workers are in Russian captivity and 147 have been killed since the full-scale invasion, the country's UN delegation said.
68-year-old man and woman on motorcycle were killed by Russian FPV drone in Kherson this morning
While police officers responded to the scene, Russia carried out a second strike, deliberately hitting the service vehicle of first responders.
Europol tracked 45 children Russia deported all the way to the military units that moved them — and passed the evidence to Kyiv
The intelligence package covers routes, perpetrators, Russian military units, and destination facilities, forming part of Europol's broader support for Ukraine's investigations into Russia's forcible displacement of thousands of children.
Russia’s Easter “ceasefire” stopped Shaheds for a day — and nothing else
Russian forces shot four Ukrainian POWs after capturing them near Veterynarne, Kharkiv Oblast — after the truce had formally begun — while Russia accumulated 10,721 other violations across the front, Ukraine says.
ISW: Russians “weaponizing civilian harm as an intentional tool of war” by pervasively employing human safari tactics
The assessment follows two FPV strikes on civilian buses in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 7 April — part of a pattern that the UN has previously confirmed as crimes against humanity.
Ukraine’s greatest philosopher visited this estate. Russia burned it down 242 years later
The Donets-Zakharzhevskyi estate in Velykyi Burluk — a locally protected architectural monument where Hryhorii Skovoroda once stayed — was completely consumed by fire on 7 April after two direct drone strikes; no casualties were reported.