Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Tuesday publicly accused India of profiting from the Russian-Ukrainian war. Ukrainian foreign minister Kuleba also questioned the Indian side, calling it “the war of Ukraine”. He said that when India benefits from “our pain and suffering”, the least it can do is increase the aid given to us. The … Read more
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, about 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died so far, a Ukrainian official has confirmed this. Mikhailo Podolyak, the adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, says that 10,000 to 13,000 soldiers have lost their lives in the war so far. It rarely happens when Ukraine gives information about its killed soldiers. This statement … Read more
The rapes and sexual assaults attributed to Russian forces in Ukraine clearly constitute “a military strategy” and a “deliberate tactic to dehumanize victims”, estimates the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten. “All the signs are there,” Patten said in an interview with AFP in Paris, where he signed an agreement on … Read more
A massive fire burns on the Kirch Strait bridge connecting Russia to Crimea on Saturday morning, with footage showing several fully engulfed train carriages and two spans of the road bridge in the water. Images from the bridge showed a fiercely burning fire engulfing at least two cars of a train on the bridge, accompanied … Read more
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry into Ukraine reported this Friday to the United Nations Human Rights Council, that Russian forces have committed war crimes during the invasion of the neighbouring country. The UN has made investigating human rights violations in the war a priority, and in May its main human rights body ordered a team of … Read more
Large numbers of Russians rushed to book one-way tickets out of the country while they still could on Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of military reservists for the war in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin speech Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a televised speech on September 21 in which he announced the … Read more
Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Russian ultra-nationalist political writer and ardent supporter of the Ukraine invasion Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday night when the car she was driving was ripped apart by a powerful explosion 20 kilometres from Moscow. According to preliminary information, Dugina participated in an event that her father, who was … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sacked Kyiv’s ambassador to India on Saturday, the presidential website said. In a decree that did not explain the reason for the move, he announced the dismissal of Ukraine’s ambassadors to Germany, India, the Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary. It was not immediately clear whether the envoys would receive new jobs. … Read more
The Ukrainian army accused Russia of having attacked Snake Island with White phosphorus bombs, after withdrawing Thursday from that strategic location in the Black Sea. “Around 6:00 p.m. (Friday), SU-30 planes of the Russian Aeronautics carried out two attacks with phosphorus bombs on the Snake Island,” the commander-in-chief of the General Staff of Ukraine, wrote … Read more
Hundreds of people gathered at two sites in central Kyiv on June 18 to mourn the death of Kyiv activist Roman Ratushnyi, an activist who became a well-known figure in Ukraine’s pro-Western revolution in 2014. There, in one of those cars, was the body of a young Ukrainian activist who once inspired and united these … Read more
