Ukraine’s human rights commissioner says his country has “dozens” of videos of executions and torture of its citizens in Russian captivity. Several perpetrators in the images are said to have already been identified. At least one of them has already been killed in combat. .In an interview with the online […]
Despite European Union sanctions, Russian diesel exports are on track to hit a record high this month. It was thought the Russians would sell less because of the European ban on oil products from Russia. However, the loss of Europe as the main buyer is more than compensated by higher […]
Russian oil pipeline manager Transneft said on Monday that Poland would no longer receive Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline because the country has failed to meet payment terms. Last weekend it was announced that Russia had stopped the oil supply to Poland through the pipeline. Transneft said supply was […]
Against the background of Russia’s offensive war against Ukraine, Poland plans to spend 4 percent of its gross domestic product on defence this year. That is double compared to 2021. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced this on Monday. “This may be the highest percentage of all NATO countries,” the prime […]
Russia has formally completed the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya. Russian President Vladimir Putin has finalized a law formally annexing the four partly Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported. The signing was the last step in the process. On […]
Russia needs “additional explanations” about the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says additional information has been requested from the UN because of a “number of problems”, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported. The report on the Ukrainian power plant was […]
The Russian internal security service FSB has said it has identified a new suspected suspect in the murder of Daria Dugina, daughter of Putin’s domestic ideologist Alexander Dugin. According to the FSB, it is a Ukrainian who was born in 1978 and entered the country on July 30 via Estonia. […]
After the vicinity of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant has come under fire several times in recent days, Russia is proposing a ceasefire. “The leaders of the United Nations and the chief diplomat of the EU should not talk about demilitarization, but about establishing a ceasefire,” Vladimir Rogov, a representative […]
The Ukrainian army has again carried out rocket attacks in the large southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, occupied by Russian troops. The target was a strategically important and previously damaged bridge over the Dnieper River. In addition, a road over a Dnieper dam was shelled with rockets. Since the […]
Russia plans to try more than 200 Ukrainians for crimes against humanity. That would be done before an international tribunal that Moscow would set up. Since the United Nations is dominated by the West, the Russian tribunal would be headed by a partner organization of Russia. That said, Aleksandr […]
