Russian-Ukrainian war
Russian strikes across Ukraine kills at least seven, injures 65 in a single day (updated)
The rescue operation is ongoing, and information regarding the aftermath of the strike is being clarified
Russian attack in Kyiv injures 10, including a child overnight
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that over the course of the night, Russians launched more than 120 drones and 12 missiles, half of them ballistic. Our defenders managed to shoot down most of the targets – but not the ballistic ones
Chinese media expand their presence in Ukraine’s occupied territories and promote Kremlin narratives, RSF says
Although China does not officially recognise Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory, its media presence there continues to expand. As Vira Yastrebova, director of the Eastern Human Rights Group, pointed out, Chinese media actors frequently reproduce or reinforce Russian propaganda narratives
UK condemns Russia’s militarization and indoctrination of Ukrainian children, demands release of Ivan Zabavskyi and detained OSCE staff
The report published by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights concluded that Russia has violated International Humanitarian Law on a grand scale and is responsible for numerous and overlapping violations of International Human Rights Law.
Russia’s indoctrination and militarisation of Ukrainian children may amount to a crime against humanity – OSCE
The OSCE mission has documented that Russia systematically violates the rights of Ukrainian children, ranging from banning the Ukrainian language in schools to the forced conscription of boys into military service upon reaching the age of 18. The mission's legal analysis classifies the indoctrination and militarization of children as a crime against humanity, and specific episodes, including deportation and torture, as war crimes.
Russian soldier Mumadi Magomedov charged in absentia with raping minor in Kherson Oblast
Magomedov is suspected of abducting a minor from a village street on March 24, 2024, along with an unidentified Russian soldier using the call sign "Khoma"
The first issue of the Crimean Tatar newspaper Qırım was published 37 years ago
According to available estimates, between 2021 and 2024 alone, the occupation authorities imposed at least 658,000 Russian roubles in fines on the newspaper, its Editor-in-Chief and its founder
European Bureau for Conscientious Objection urges Ukraine to pass alternative service law amid war
The bureau also said Ukraine's failure to meet its commitments stems from the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff's "categorical position" requiring conscientious objectors to perform "alternative" service in non-combat military positions. According to EBCO, this contradicts the religious beliefs of a significant number of Ukrainian conscientious objectors
Russian strike on Kyiv Oblast at least 26, injures 64; Ukraine intercepts no ballistic missiles amid lack of Patriot missiles (updated)
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko stated that Russian ballistic missiles hit several buildings across the city. According to Klitschko, fires had broken out in some apartment complexes
Ukraine warns of Kremlin operation using Volhynia tragedy to damage ties with Poland
On the night of 4-5 July, Russia Today published an article citing supposedly "declassified" FSB files. The article accused Dmytro Kliachkivskyi, one of the commanders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), of killing 11 Catholic priests and nearly 2,000 Poles in the town of Volodymyr-Volynskyi in early summer 1943
Netherlands to host full Special Tribunal on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine
The Minister said the Netherlands decided to host not only the preparatory phases of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (Phase 0 – Advance Team; Phase 1 – Skeleton Tribunal), but also its full operational phase (Phase 2 – fully fledged operational Special Tribunal)
Russian aerial bomb attack on Sumy kills 4, including civilians, injures children (updated)
According to the Regional Military Administration, at least three people were killed. Several others were injured, including a 13-year-old child, and are being transported to hospitals
At least 40 Ukrainian civilians killed and 149 others injured in Russian strikes on 2 July
At least 40 Ukrainian civilians were killed and more than 100 others injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine on 2 July 2026, according to the National Police of Ukraine
Russians kill at least 31 Ukrainian in large-scale missile and drone strikes on Kyiv (updated)
Ukraine's air force said Russia had launched 74 missiles and 496 drones overnight, mainly targeting the capital. While the country's air defences were able to repel most of these, 25 ballistic missiles and 12 drones struck 33 locations
Russian strikes kill 14 civilians in Ukraine on 29 June
Russian strikes killed 11 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions (oblasts) on 29 June, while at least 98 others were injured in attacks that also affected the Kherson, Chernihiv and Donetsk Oblasts
Russian strikes kill at least 10, injure 39 across Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia on June 29 (updated)
Five people are in a critical condition in Dnipro – they are men aged 22, 33, 54, 58 and 59
People of “Without Home” are people without pause: how a volunteer initiative is helping those in need
Every Saturday at 2:00 p.m., hundreds of people gather near Kyiv’s central railway station. Some come for a hot meal, some for medicine, and some simply for the opportunity to talk without fear of judgement. There are no document checks or unnecessary questions here. If a person has come, it means they need help. This is how the volunteer initiative "Without Home", founded in 2019, has been operating for many years. Today, it is much more than weekly distributions of hot meals, medicines and other essential items.
“Everything depends on us”: Tetiana Pechonchyk on building Ukraine’s human rights infrastructure amid war
Tetiana Pechonchyk grew up in a village contaminated by the Chornobyl fallout, where her parents measured mushrooms with a dosimeter before putting them on the table. She organised her first protest as a schoolgirl - calling on her classmates to boycott the unpaid fieldwork in the collective farm fields - and has never really stopped since
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