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Russian strikes killed six people in Ukraine on February 23
The National Police reported that as a result of Russian military shelling on February 23, 2026, six civilians were killed in the Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson regions, and more than three dozen others were injured, specifically in the Kharkiv and Mykolaiv regions
Russia needs soldiers. The Global South has desperate people. The rest is exploitation.
After mobilization in September 2022 sent over 261,000 Russians fleeing the country, Putin found a third option: build a global trafficking infrastructure that spans from North Korea to Cuba, Nepal to Kenya, exploiting economic desperation to fuel a war that distant populations have no stake in, explained Munira Mustaffa, Senior Fellow at Verve Research
U.N. General Assembly demands Russia return 20,000 deported Ukrainian children as reports show transfers to North Korea
Fifty-seven states abstained from voting, including China, India, Brazil, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Qatar, and Pakistan
Ukraine closes Cuba embassy and downgrades ties over Havana’s complicity in Russian aggression
Ukraine voted against the United Nations General Assembly resolution "Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," adding that this step has serious grounds
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The Human safari: How Russia weaponized precision against Ukrainian civilians
The lesson of Crimea: Rewarding aggression only invites more war
Not just Ukraine — Russia is preparing Ukrainian children for future wars elsewhere
Why “good Russians” in exile repeat Russian and Soviet colonial narratives
