Eight months of 2026 brought more Ukrainian civilian casualties than all of last year, UN says
A senior UN official told the Security Council the toll is worsening as strikes reach cities far from the front, with a dark winter ahead.
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Russia’s FM says war must end so there is “no more Nazism” in Europe. Russian occupation official already said what that means: erasing Ukraine and stopping its aid
The collaborator put it plainly: "denazification is re-Russification".
“Territory that will allow us to export our energy resources to Europe”: Russia’s deputy Duma chairman calls for massed bombing of Ukrainian cities
Duma vice-speaker Pyotr Tolstoy said the aim is to demoralize civilians until they give up.
Germany charged a Ukrainian for the Nord Stream blasts—Kyiv is now investigating if Russia staged the attack to frame Ukrainians
Ukraine's top prosecutors confirmed they are testing a "false flag" theory even as a Ukrainian suspect heads to trial in Germany.
Two Russian missiles hit a post office and shops in Kharkiv Oblast, killing 10 people
The strike on a crowded crossroads in Pechenihy wounded 18 more and set a cafe and cars ablaze.
Russia drops eight FAB-250 bombs on Kramatorsk, killing one and injuring 18
Prosecutors opened a war crimes investigation into the glide-bomb strike, the latest in a series that has hit residential blocks across Donetsk Oblast.
Russia starves most Ukrainian POWs, then “fattens” a few for exchange so they look normal, Ukrainian official says
Ukraine's intelligence confirms Russia is forming battalions from Ukrainian POWs and keeps cells where it feeds up prisoners.
“They laid down their weapons, raised their hands”: Russia has executed at least 345 surrendered Ukrainian soldiers on the ground
Dmytro Lubinets says the executions are a part of a systematic and rising pattern.
Russia calls them “volunteers.” They’re Ukrainian prisoners of war forced into a new combat brigade
Moscow's Defense Ministry merged several POW-based battalions and detachments into a single formation, escalating a practice ISW has tracked since late 2022.
Russian soldiers raped Ukrainian woman and shot her in back when she tried to escape in Bucha. Ukraine has now put their names on record
Ukrainian police charged two Russian soldiers from the 76th Air Assault Division.
Ukraine finds uranium in six more Russian drones. Their radiation readings ran up to 80 times background
The Security Service found uranium in Geran-2 warheads striking Chernihiv Oblast and warned residents not to touch drone fragments, which can release radioactive dust.
Russian drone tracked moving car on Kharkiv road and killed man driving it
A Molniya drone hit a Peugeot on the Zolochiv-Maksymivka road in Bohodukhiv raion. Prosecutors opened a war crimes investigation.
“Even 50% must be destroyed”: Russian MP openly calls for exterminating Ukrainians
Alexei Zhuravlyov told his interviewer that killing Ukrainians is justified "so that no one threatens us," calling the nation a "contagion."
Russia is returning Ukraine’s war dead with explosives hidden inside. Police now check every body first
"Such cases have been repeated."
Crimean zoo owner looted Ukraine’s crown jewel of conservation. Now he’s charged
Ukrainian authorities say a Crimean suspect coordinated with occupation-installed officials to illegally transfer rare animals from the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve to occupied Crimea, resulting in losses of about $1.5 million.
Russian strike on a Norwegian charity’s demining team kills two, wounds four in Kherson Oblast
The workers were clearing mines to make farmland safe when the strike hit, the group said.
Russia’s assembly line for Azov sentences gives two Ukrainian POWs 17 and 20 years in jail for defending Mariupol
The charges stem from the POWs' service in Azov, which Russia's Supreme Court designated a terrorist organization on 2 August 2022.
Russia hit Kyiv’s 1,000-year-old monastery, then launched disinformation campaign with five different scenarios. Ukraine has seen this playbook in Mariupol
Russian sources are blaming Ukraine for the fire at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (a UNESCO World Heritage site), calling it "Ukrainian provocation" or "self-arson."
Russia trained 900 more Ukrainian children at Volgograd — a camp Britain already sanctioned in 2024
More than 900 Ukrainian children completed military training at a Volgograd camp, the resistance movement Yellow Ribbon reported…
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.