Europe’s top human rights court ruled Wednesday that it can adjudicate on cases brought by the Netherlands and Ukraine against Russia for alleged rights violations in eastern Ukraine in 2014, including the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The ruling by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights marks significant…
1. Kyiv sends reinforcements to Soledar after ‘Putin’s Chef’ says he wants its salt mines Ukraine said it was strengthening its forces around Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region and repelling constant attacks there by the Russian mercenary group Wagner, whose leader has vowed to capture the area’s vast underground…
1. Russia boosting production of ‘powerful’ weapons, says Medvedev Russia is producing more destructive weapons to counter western countries that support Kyiv, said Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday. “Our enemy is entrenched … in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a whole number of other places that have sworn…
Greece and Bulgaria have started commercially operating a long-delayed gas pipeline, which will help decrease southeast Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and boost energy security. The 182-kilometre pipeline will provide a relief to Bulgaria, which has been struggling to secure gas supplies at affordable prices since the end of April,…
Nuclear concerns as Russia fires on power station Concern about the potential for a radiation leak at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant persisted as Ukrainian authorities said Saturday that Russian forces fired on areas just across the river and Russia claimed Ukrainian shelling hit a building where nuclear fuel is…
Ukrainians celebrated 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union on Wednesday. However, the day also coincided with a more grim milestone in Ukraine’s history: The six-month anniversary of the start of the Russian invasion. In a fiery video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that Ukraine would resist Russia’s troops…
The death of pro-Kremlin TV commentator Daria Dugina in a suspected car bomb near Moscow on Sunday immediately prompted speculation that the intended target of the attack may have been her father. Aleksandr Dugin is a prominent ultranationalist philosopher and writer who advocates a vast new Russian empire and is a vehement…
Toretsk is on the frontline of Ukraine’s war with Russia, yet all around you can see cyclists pedalling around the streets, going about their daily business as if defying the surrounding danger. Oleksandr is a former miner. “How am I supposed to drive?” he says. “Petrol is expensive, I have nothing…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sharply denounced the “greed” of big oil and gas companies that are making “outrageous” profits on the backs of some of the world’s poorest people. Guterres said the crisis was caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and called on national governments to tax the companies’…
1. Ukraine denounces POW execution calls Ukrainian authorities have denounced Russian calls to “hang” or inflict a “humiliating death” on fighters from the Ukrainian Azov regiment, the day after a strike on a prison where some of them were being held that killed more than 50 prisoners of war. “There…