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Ukrainian paratroopers captured a group of Russian soldiers in Russia’s Kursk Oblast

Ukrainian paratroopers have captured five Russian soldiers during an operation in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces reported on March 29.

29 March 2025, 02:50 PM

Ukraine's international fighters reject Russian propaganda 'sentences'

The Command of Ukraine’s International Legion of Defense has sharply criticized recent attempts by the Russian regime to issue in-absentia “sentences” to its foreign fighters, calling the move part of a broader propaganda campaign fuelled by the Kremlin’s battlefield failures.

22 March 2025, 08:52 AM

Trump shuts down probe into Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration terminated funding for an initiative that documented Russia's war crimes, including the mass abduction of Ukrainian children, The Washington Post reported on March 18, citing sources.

19 March 2025, 10:57 AM

Ex-German soldier who fought in Ukraine extradited for rape charges

Ukraine has extradited a former German soldier who fought with the Ukrainian Armed Forces (ZSU) and is suspected of sexually assaulting women in both Germany and Ukraine. BBC News Ukraine reported the development on March 17, citing sources. The Office of the Prosecutor General later confirmed the information to Suspilne.

17 March 2025, 04:40 PM

The brutal truth behind Russia’s execution of Ukrainian POWs: motives, patterns, and the road to justice

A group of Ukrainian soldiers, unarmed and defenseless, kneel in the dirt. Their hands are bound. A Russian soldier gives the order. Gunfire erupts. The bodies collapse, lifeless. The video surfaced online on March 13, 2025, offering a horrifying glimpse into the systematic execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by Russian forces. Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, confirmed its authenticity, calling it yet another war crime added to an already staggering list.

15 March 2025, 01:48 PM

Former Rusich commander Yan Petrovsky sentenced to life in Finland for war crimes in Ukraine

The Helsinki District Court has sentenced Voislav Torden (also known as Yan Petrovsky), a former deputy commander of the Rusich sabotage and reconnaissance group, to life imprisonment for four war crimes committed in Ukraine, the Finnish outlet Yle reported on March 14.

14 March 2025, 01:10 PM

Russia targets fifth DTEK energy facility in two weeks

The Russian army has launched another attack on a DTEK energy facility in Odesa Oblast, marking the fifth company's site damaged in the past two weeks, the energy provider's press service reported on March 6.

6 March 2025, 12:30 PM

RSF: Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna faced torture, neglect before dying in Russian custody

Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who had been missing for months, was officially declared dead by Russian authorities in September 2024. However, her body has not been returned, and the exact circumstances of her death remain unknown. Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in collaboration with three Ukrainian media outlets, spent months investigating her captivity, uncovering inhumane detention conditions, a complete lack of medical care, and a deliberate effort by Russian officials to conceal details of her fate. The report was published on March 3.

5 March 2025, 04:10 PM

Russian marine confesses to executing Ukrainian POW — video

Public broadcaster Suspilne obtained a video from Ukraine’s SBU security service showing a Russian soldier confessing to the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. The video was released on Feb. 27.

27 February 2025, 08:56 PM

Kherson suffers heavy damage as Russian guided bomb hits residential block

At least six people, including two 14-year-old children, were injured in a Russian airstrike on a 10-story residential building in Kherson overnight on Feb. 20, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.

20 February 2025, 10:19 AM

Ukrainian ombudsman: Russian commanders endorsing executions of Ukrainian POWs

Russian military channels are circulating videos allegedly showing the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces. Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, reported this on Feb. 17.

17 February 2025, 06:45 PM

EU’s Kallas: Russia’s attack on Chernobyl proves it is not seeking peace

Russia has no interest in peace, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas said on Feb. 14, commenting on a Russian drone strike on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

14 February 2025, 04:45 PM

Bucha war criminal appointed Deputy Minister in Orenburg local government

Nursultan Mussagaleyev, a Russian soldier accused of war crimes committed in Ukraine in early 2022, has been appointed acting Deputy Minister of Information Policy in Russia's Orenburg Oblast.

6 February 2025, 11:33 PM

HUR exposes Russia’s illegal mobilization of Ukrainians

Ukrainian men illegally conscripted into Russia’s occupation army from temporarily occupied territories face systematic abuse and humiliation, Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence agency reported on Feb. 2.

2 February 2025, 07:35 PM

Two children among 14 killed in Poltava missile attack

The death toll from Russia’s Feb. 1 missile strike on Poltava has risen to 14, including two children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) reported on Feb. 2.

2 February 2025, 11:07 AM

Russian missile strike on Poltava kills three, injures ten

On Saturday, Feb. 1, a Russian missile strike hit a residential apartment building in Poltava, killing three people and injuring ten others, including a child.

1 February 2025, 10:37 AM

Russia burns bodies of troops near Chasiv Yar to hide heavy losses

Russian forces near Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast set fire to a collector containing the bodies of over 100 of their dead soldiers, apparently to conceal their losses and avoid evacuating the remains, the Operational-Tactical Grouping Luhansk reported on Jan. 23.

24 January 2025, 12:30 PM

Pokrovsk under siege: city faces relentless Russian attacks

In January 2025, Russian forces advanced dangerously close to Pokrovsk, and by Jan. 10, they had destroyed nearly all of the city’s critical infrastructure.

23 January 2025, 03:45 PM

Russia blocks Mariupol residents from receiving housing compensation

Mariupol residents are facing new bureaucratic obstacles in their attempts to claim compensation for their destroyed homes, yet the payment mechanism remains effectively non-functional, National Resistance Center (NRC) wrote on Jan. 9.

10 January 2025, 08:00 AM

Putin may face another ICC arrest warrant, says Ukrainian Presidential Office

The International Criminal Court (ICC) continues to investigate Russia's war crimes in Ukraine, with the possibility of issuing another arrest warrant for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, the Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office Iryna Mudra said in comments to RBC-Ukraine on Jan. 7.

7 January 2025, 11:15 AM

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