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.
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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.
One court, ten judges, twenty thousand cases — and a single war crimes verdict in three years
Ukraine has recorded more than 217,000 war crimes since Russia's full-scale invasion, but its courts have delivered just 245 verdicts — 23 of them with the defendant physically present. With the ICC prosecuting only senior commanders, the rest falls to a judiciary running at roughly half its required staffing, according to a Suspilne investigation.
1,676 high-rises in Kyiv still lack heating after Russia’s winter attacks
In Kyiv, nearly 1,700 apartment apartment blocks remain without heating following a series of Russian missile and drone…
Ukraine destroys Buks concealed by Russians in wooded terrain of Kharkiv Oblast. It’s same type of system that killed 298 people on MH17 (VIDEO)
Ukrainian soldiers from the 8th Corps of the Air Assault Forces destroyed two Russian Buk surface-to-air missile systems.…
SBU captures Russian soldier behind mass execution of Ukrainian POWs in Kursk
SBU hunts down Russian who shot nine surrendering Ukrainian soldiers amid growing war crime epidemic.
Russia turns occupied Mariupol into logistics hub while residents wait for promised housing
Occupation authorities suspend school meals, confiscate apartments
Russia says it wants peace. Then it launches attacks on Ukraine which “fall exactly under definition of Article II of Genocide Convention,” says minister
The Genocide Convention is a 1948 UN treaty that defines genocide as such that is committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Russia continues daily strikes on Kyiv’s power infrastructure as –15°C frosts persist
Ukrainian officials reported that 113 drones and missiles were launched overnight on 14 January, with at least 13 impact sites across the country.
Russia captures, tortures Polish man to death after he tries to enter occupied Ukraine to see the war himself
Krzysztof Galos disappeared in 2023. His death is confirmed only by inmates.
Car stopped, then fired upon again: Russian commander charged for deliberate killing of evacuating Ukrainian civilians
Three civilians tried to evacuate. Russian commander ordered 30mm cannon fire.
Russian soldiers execute seven civilians in Pokrovsk after being refused alcohol
Only one survivor, who pretended to be dead