Names and addresses of 300 abducted children to be on the desks of all leaders – Zelenskyy
Thousands of children have been forcibly taken by Russia since 2022 in what Kyiv and international observers classify as war crime.
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From restaurant to trench: Iraqi “contract soldier” describes hell of Russian forces
Khalaf said he was detained in Russia for lacking a work permit and offered a brutal choice.
Putin’s order on “foreign journalist corridors” in three Ukrainian cities, could end with war crimes
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry warns journalists against accepting Russia's offer, citing the 2014 Ilovaisk massacre where Moscow promised safe passage through a "humanitarian corridor" before opening fire, killing 366 Ukrainian soldiers who trusted similar Russian guarantees.
US senators seek to question Russian ambassador on more than 19,000 abducted Ukrainian children
Russian ambassador calls the invitation a “provocation.”
Moscow is deliberately driving Ukrainians from their homes, UN investigators find
UN investigators document torture, detentions, and confiscation of property, concluding these acts amount to inhuman treatment and war crimes.
Putin claims Russia prioritizes civilian safety as advances stall, despite years of atrocities – ISW
Putin sought to justify Russia’s slow battlefield advances by citing concern for civilian safety, even as Russian forces continue daily attacks on Ukrainian civilians across the country.
Russia throws female assault units to Pokrovsk axis amid catastrophic losses
Atesh sources confirm that lives of female assault troops depend solely on earning the “mercy” of officers.
Intercepted conversations reveal Russian commanders instructing Colombian fighters to kill Ukrainian women and children in fog
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence says they are being ordered to execute civilians, making foreign fighters accomplices in atrocities in Donetsk Oblast.
Russia’s new decree: Seize Ukrainian homes for Kremlin loyalists
Russia forces Ukrainians to choose: lose their homes or get a Russian passport
EU ministers condemn Putin’s Budapest visit as Hungary vows to welcome ICC fugitive
The choice of venue carries bitter historical irony for Ukraine, where Kyiv surrendered its nuclear arsenal for security promises Moscow now violates.
Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna posthumously named World Press Freedom Hero
Award honors journalist killed in Russian captivity for her fearless reporting from occupied Ukraine
Ukraine’s FM calls Russia “worse than Hamas” as 465 drones strike energy grid on attack anniversary
Sybiha: Even Hamas agreed to ceasefire talks, Moscow rejects all diplomacy
Tajikistan welcomes Putin with full honors, ignoring ICC arrest warrant
The ICC has charged Putin with war crimes over the deportation of Ukrainian children, requiring member states like Tajikistan to arrest him if he enters their territory.
Bucha was only beginning: Russian troops deliberately kill men and use women, children as “human shields” in Ukraine — military
Presence of civilians doubles the complexity for Ukrainian forces, forcing them to balance protection with combat under constant threat.
Russia rehearses caution in demobilization from war in Ukraine—but 1989 Afghan lesson haunts Kremlin
Veterans with combat experience, prison records, and psychological trauma could spark unrest reminiscent of the 1990s.
Ukraine reveals name of main torturer of journalist Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian detention center
Alexander Shtuda, the Russian detention chief, is now charged with overseeing the savage abuse that led to Victoria Roshchyna’s death.
“Moscow mechanism” will now investigate Russia’s killings of Ukrainian POWs at request of 41 nations
Over 90% of returned Ukrainian prisoners report systematic beatings and torture.
“He said we deserve genocide”: Journalists unmask Russian “Dr. Evil” torturer of Ukrainian POWs
A stunning investigation by Radio Free Europe identifies Illia Sorokin, a Russian prison medic who brutalized captured Ukrainian soldiers with electric shocks, rubber batons, and degrading humiliation.
Ukraine captures Russian soldiers who forced teachers, rescuers, volunteers to dig their graves in Kharkiv Oblast’s torture chamber
They will be held accountable for their crimes, says Kyiv.
Only 2 Russians convicted for 273 Ukrainian POW executions in growing war crimes crisis
Russian officers explicitly instruct troops to "shoot prisoners on the spot."