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Russians killed at least 36, including six children, and injured 93 civilians in their attack on Ternopil city (updating)
News - 19 November 2025

Russians killed at least 36, including six children, and injured 93 civilians in their attack on Ternopil city (updating)

Nine-storey blocks of flats were hit in the strikes, as Russia fired more than 470 drones and 47 missiles at Ukraine overnight in a "brazen attack"

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is a classic neo-colonial war for the enslavement of an entire people
Columns - 18 November 2025

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is a classic neo-colonial war for the enslavement of an entire people

Serhiy Kyslytsya stated that Russia's war against Ukraine is a neo-colonial war, and also emphasized that for the Kremlin, Ukrainians are a resource for restoring an imagined empire

Ukraine invites nations across Africa, South America, and Asia to join a global justice alliance
Columns - 17 November 2025

Ukraine invites nations across Africa, South America, and Asia to join a global justice alliance

At the Crimea Global forum in Kyiv, Iryna Mudra appealed to states of the Global South to join the Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression, arguing that justice for Crimea and Ukraine is inseparable from the safety and sovereignty of countries worldwide.

Seven civilians killed in wave of Russian strikes across Kyiv (updated)
News - 14 November 2025

Seven civilians killed in wave of Russian strikes across Kyiv (updated)

At least seven people were killed and 35 more injured in a wave of Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv

Russian forces killed two people in Ukraine on October 6, among the injured are children
News - 07 November 2025

Russian forces killed two people in Ukraine on October 6, among the injured are children

Russian shelling on November, 2025, 6 killed two civilians in the Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions, and more than three dozen others sustained various injuries in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions, according to the reports of the National Police of Ukraine

Сourt in Kyiv region has acquitted a Russian serviceman for the first time after he was charged in absentia with looting
News - 06 November 2025

Сourt in Kyiv region has acquitted a Russian serviceman for the first time after he was charged in absentia with looting

The victim in the Bucha court case managed to leave her home on February 26 and only learned of the robbery in April upon her return

Polish military exposes Russian psyops targeting Ukraine support
News - 04 November 2025

Polish military exposes Russian psyops targeting Ukraine support

The rise in anti-Ukrainian sentiment is being observed in places where there are hubs providing assistance for the transfer of weapons or support for Ukraine's war effort (for example, Gdynia and Gdańsk)

Russia strikes Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight: people killed and injured, including children, some regions without power
News - 30 October 2025

Russia strikes Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight: people killed and injured, including children, some regions without power

The National Police of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service (SES), and regional military administrations reported civilian casualties. Russians also caused damage, including to energy and railway infrastructure, across the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Lviv, and Mykolaiv regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 30, 2025

Ukraine closes Cuba embassy and downgrades ties over Havana’s complicity in Russian aggression
News - 29 October 2025

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

Former Lithuanian NATO representative accuses Merkel of blocking Ukraine’s Crimea defense
News - 26 October 2025

Former Lithuanian NATO representative accuses Merkel of blocking Ukraine’s Crimea defense

In recent years, Germany has been subject to influence from the Russian Federation through financial, political, and lobbying levers, particularly in the context of the Nord Stream 2 project, which authorities promoted following the illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014

“How can there be any deal without us about us?”: Zelenskyy rejects ceding more territory, ready to join Trump-Putin Budapest meeting
News - 19 October 2025

“How can there be any deal without us about us?”: Zelenskyy rejects ceding more territory, ready to join Trump-Putin Budapest meeting

Zelenskyy, who called Putin a terrorist in the interview, confirmed his readiness to meet with him face-to-face

Reporters Without Borders releases details of targeted Russian attack killing journalist Anthony Lallican
News - 11 October 2025

Reporters Without Borders releases details of targeted Russian attack killing journalist Anthony Lallican

French freelance photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed near Kramatorsk in a deliberate strike by a Russian drone on 3 October. His Ukrainian colleague Georgiy Ivanchenko was critically wounded

Unknown actors impersonate ZMINA Human Rights Centre to target civil society organizations: ZMINA calls on recipients to trust only @zmina.ua domain
News - 09 October 2025

Unknown actors impersonate ZMINA Human Rights Centre to target civil society organizations: ZMINA calls on recipients to trust only @zmina.ua domain

ZMINA has also asked anyone who receives such emails to report them to the organization at: info@zmina.ua

DIU has identified more than 170 cultural properties stolen by Russians from Ukraine
News - 08 October 2025

DIU has identified more than 170 cultural properties stolen by Russians from Ukraine

Intelligence officials reported that over 140 artifacts were stolen during illegal archaeological excavations in temporarily occupied Crimea from sites such as the Southern Suburb of Chersonesos Taurica, the Kadykivske settlement (a Roman camp), and the Byzantine architectural monument known as the "Church of John the Baptist."

“I didn’t want this war”: Indian student says Russia coerced him into military service after drug conviction
News - 07 October 2025

“I didn’t want this war”: Indian student says Russia coerced him into military service after drug conviction

The man said he had traveled to Russia to study but was imprisoned on drug-related charges and later offered "freedom" in exchange for signing a military contract

You sit like a potted plant: you may be watered, or you may not, and then you will wither – journalist Dmytro Khyliuk. A story of captivity and freedom
Articles - 06 October 2025

You sit like a potted plant: you may be watered, or you may not, and then you will wither – journalist Dmytro Khyliuk. A story of captivity and freedom

ZMINA met with Dmytro Khyliuk at the hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. She spoke with him about the first days of the occupation of the Kyiv region, the conditions of detention for Ukrainians in Russian colonies, what helped him maintain his psychological resilience in captivity, and what he plans to do in the future

Russian strikes kill at least 5 civilians, wound 32 in eastern and southern Ukraine over the past 24 hours
News - 06 October 2025

Russian strikes kill at least 5 civilians, wound 32 in eastern and southern Ukraine over the past 24 hours

The Sumy Oblast Military Administration and Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President, reported that Russians deliberately struck a local health care facility with a drone in Sumy, causing the roof of a perinatal center to catch fire. At the time of the strike, 166 people were inside the center, including 11 children and 35 patients

Russia tortures Crimean Tatar prisoner Mamut Belyalov again – human rights defenders
News - 04 October 2025

Russia tortures Crimean Tatar prisoner Mamut Belyalov again – human rights defenders

26-year-old Mamut Belyalov, who is already serving a 12-year sentence on fabricated charges, has been brought back to occupied Crimea and subjected to so-called ‘interrogation’ in the form of savage beatings, without a lawyer present