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EXPLAINED: How the Fatal Stabbing of a Ukrainian Refugee Became a US Political Flashpoint
The Charlotte stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska fuels Trump’s plan to deploy National Guard to Democratic-led cities, sparking protests and debate.
Sept. 9, 2025
Russia
Russia Charges Student With Nazi Crime for Bubble Tea Joke
Ilya Kostyakov, a student in Moscow, posted a TikTok video and said he couldn’t imagine people going three years without bubble tea during WWII’s siege of Leningrad.
Aug. 27, 2025
Russia
Moscow Moves to Quit European Convention Against Torture
The convention, adopted in 1987, allows the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to visit prisons and detention centers in member states.
Aug. 26, 2025
War in Ukraine
Russians Drop Explosives on Teenager From Drone in Kherson Region
Near noon on Saturday, Russian soldiers dropped explosives from a UAV on a 15-year-old boy, now hospitalized with brain injuries and shrapnel wounds.
Aug. 24, 2025
Israel
UN Declares Famine in Gaza
The Rome-based Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) said famine was affecting 500,000 people in the Gaza governorate, which covers about a fifth of the Palestinian territory.
Aug. 22, 2025
Putin
Could Trump-Putin Peace Deal Let Russia Dodge War Crimes Trials?
As Trump meets Putin in Alaska, Global Rights Compliance tells Kyiv Post that stopping Ukraine’s war crimes cases in a peace deal would break international law.
Aug. 15, 2025
US
Kremlin’s Brutality Documented: US Rights Report Details Russian Atrocities in Ukraine, Internal Repression
The Trump administration’s 2024 human rights report highlights Russia’s alleged execution-style killings, sexual violence, forced child deportations in Ukraine, and rising repression in Russia.
Aug. 12, 2025
Ukraine
Funeral for Ukraine Reporter Who Suffered ‘Torments’ in Russian Captivity
Viktoria Roshchyna, who worked freelance for several Ukrainian news outlets, disappeared in August 2023 on a reporting trip to the Moscow-held part of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region.
Aug. 8, 2025
EU
Georgian Journalist Jailed: 24 Embassies Condemn ‘Politically Motivated’ Sentence
A well-known journalist was sentenced to two years in jail for slapping a police chief during protests against the Georgian government. Supporters are protesting the sentence.
Aug. 6, 2025
Russian Armed Forces
Two Senior Officers ‘Disappear’ in Notorious Russian Unit Accused of Torturing Texan to Death
Commanders in Russia’s 5th Guards Rifle Brigade reportedly torture troops and threaten executions to motivate soldiers. Relatives tell of one-way missions with no survivors.
Aug. 1, 2025
Russia
Russia Found Responsible for MH17, War Crimes, by European Court of Human Rights
This is the first time an international court has found Russia guilty in the MH17 case, the Associated Press reported.
July 9, 2025
Belarus
Belarus Frees More Political Prisoners
Hundreds of regime opponents remain in prison in Belarus, five years on from Minsk’s brutal crackdown of massive anti-Lukashenko protests in 2020
July 2, 2025
War in Ukraine
OPINION: No Kings: US Military Officers Must Keep Our Constitutional Oath
US Armed Forces officers swear a solemn oath “to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” not to any party or individual – definitely not to any would-be king.
June 15, 2025
EU
EU Reportedly Taps Former Home Affairs Head as Ukrainian Migrant Chief
Described as a left-wing Socialist, Sweden’s Ylva Johansson has a long record of protecting migrant rights and safety.
June 13, 2025
War in Ukraine
OPINION: Can International Law Survive Putin’s War?
With its war, Russia has inflicted a humanitarian catastrophe on Ukraine. But it’s also a legal turning point – one that could define how the world handles war in the decades ahead.
June 4, 2025
Moscow
300 Ukrainian Turncoats Want to Flee to Russia – Moscow Doesn’t Want Them
300 Ukrainians convicted of collaborating with the enemy have asked to be exchanged for Ukrainian captives held in Russia – but the Kremlin refuses to take them off Kyiv’s hands.
May 1, 2025