The ICC should recognise Russian war crimes as genocide of the Ukrainian people The "Tribunal for Putin" initiative has sent to the ICC evidence of multiple war crimes committed by Russian troops in Mariupol during the fighting for the city last spring. In the first days of the war, Mariupol was laid under siege, on 2nd March communication was...
Modern Western weapons have become a factor in the success of the Ukrainian Armed Forces On 28 August, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry officially announced the liberation of Rabotino village in the Zaporizhzhya Region. A few days earlier, on 17 August, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated the village of Urozhayne in the Donetsk Region. The Ukrainian...
The Baltic-Black Sea defence alliance will complement the Crimean platform and protect Europe's eastern borders. On 23 August Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested creating a security alliance between the countries that have access to the Baltic and Black Seas. Ukraine has come up with similar initiatives before: on 5 December 2014, the Alliance ...
Putin has proposed talks with Ukraine as a pretext to prepare for a new stage of the war. On 17 August, President Lukashenko of Belarus once again said that negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation are necessary and that the goals of the "special operation" launched by Russia have allegedly already been achieved. This ...
Russia deliberately bombards Ukrainian border territories to maximise civilian casualties. Russia has significantly intensified shelling of Ukraine's border and frontline territories - 248 explosions were recorded in Sumy Region alone on 19 August. The Russian army used mortars and also launched unguided aerial missiles from helicopters. Putin's go...
Russia is abducting children from Ukraine on an industrial scale confirming its status as a terrorist state engaged in human trafficking. The Russians have again taken 450 Ukrainian children out of the occupied territories of the Kherson Region, namely the Kakhovskyy and Genicheskyy districts. The children were placed mainl...
Bargaining Ukrainian territories will lead to Russia's war with NATO. On 15 April, NATO chief of staff Stian Jenssen said that one of the options for Ukraine's upcoming membership in NATO could be Kyiv's renunciation of the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia. The official noted that Ukraine should decide on its own when and on what terms to n...
Russia is deliberately launching missile strikes on Ukrainian residential buildings, to cause civilian casualties. On the morning of 15 August, the Russian Air Force carried out a massive attack on Ukrainian cities far from the front line - in particular, Lviv, Lutsk, Dnipro and Smila were hit. As a result of a missile landing on a f...
The genocide of Ukrainian people in the occupied territories continues: Russian authorities deprive Ukrainians of humanitarian and medical assistance and proceed with their deportation The so-called head of the occupied Lazurnoye village in Kherson Region, Oleksandr Dudka, has said that he will not provide medicines and humanitarian aid t...
48 years ago, on 15 August 1975, Bangladesh witnessed the darkest dawn in its history since independence in 1971. The Father of the Nation of Bangladesh and then President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, popularly known as "Bangabandhu" (Friend of Bengal) along with most of the members of his family including his ten-year old son were brutally assassin...
Russia is preparing for a protracted war. Putin will conceal the introduction of martial law and the start of general mobilisation from the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Putin will not inform the Council of Europe about Russia's introduction and cancellation of martial law. Under current regulations, when martial law...
Russia has lost a quarter of a million soldiers in Ukraine: the Ukrainian army keeps inflicting huge damage on Russian troops. The destruction of the Russian army in Ukraine is proceeding at a shocking pace. The number of Russian military dead in the war has already reached more than a quarter of a million (250 thousand). For the third month in a r...
Russia has increased provocations against NATO eastern flank countries. The intensification of Russian spying activities, threats of provocations, and sabotage are pushing European countries to close their borders with Russia and Belarus. Latvia stopped issuing humanitarian visas to Russians a month ago, and Lithuania in early August deci...
The Russian leadership has started the process of transition to a long war against Ukraine using the entire mobilisation resource of the Russian Federation. Moscow has intensified the process of concentrating the Russian economy on financing the military. For example, in the Kursk region alone, 50 enterprises are producing military produc...
Moscow's hopes for peace with Ukraine on Russian terms are not justified. The city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia will host a meeting of representatives of Western countries and the Global South to continue the dialogue with a view to developing a common vision of the "Ukrainian formula" in preparation for a Global Peace Summit. Russia has not been...
By shelling Ukrainian ports, Russia is inflicting grain terror on the entire world. After Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv was forced to increase its grain exports through the EU to about 1 million tonnes per month, with large volumes exported from Romanian ports and along the Danube. After withdrawing from the grain deal, Ru...
Russia does not want peace, but craves only war. In Ukraine, Putin started the first stage of his strategic war for the redivision of the world. The Russian president has repeatedly emphasised the "artificiality of independence" of the countries formed as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the need for post-socialist...
The Ukrainian counter-offensive is on track, despite the Ukrainian army's slow advance. Kyiv is exercising "due caution," refusing to risk men and weapons because of the high density of minefields. Since the Russian invasion, Ukraine has demonstrated that the Ukrainian army has in many ways reached and even surpassed NATO standards. Although Russia...
Ukraine is the first stage in Putin's strategy to provide security for the Russian Federation. If Putin does not suffer a decisive defeat in Ukraine, he will certainly go further in his mission to "reclaim" lands that were part of the Russian Empire and the USSR. Putin constantly puts forward nonsensical justifications for his invasion of...
Russia kidnaps Ukrainian children, distributing them to foster families and orphanages. The systematic kidnapping and transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia has become a characteristic feature of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has legalised the practice of kidnapping, and this is encouraged by the state. The scale of the demog...