Articles tagged "kidnapping"

Russia deletes 38,000 messages calling for protests against the war in Ukraine -- US, Ukraine discuss risk of escalation amid weapons provisions -- Russia kidnaps men in Chechnya, forces them to fight -- Kremlin proxies in Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts plan to join Russia -- and more

Donbas completely destroyed -- Ukraine seeks long-range rocket launchers, Biden resists -- Russia refuses to permit grain shipments from Ukraine -- Unidentified Russians attack military commissariats in Russia with Molotov cocktails -- Russians block civilians from leaving occupied areas in southern Ukraine -- and more

Russia deports Luhansk Oblast residents at gunpoint to occupied territory -- Russian soldier admits shooting Ukrainian POW in intercepted phone call -- Russia launches 10-14 cruise missiles per day on Ukraine -- Ukrainian artillery frustrates Russian offensive -- and more

Investigators find documents implying Russia planned to occupy whole of Ukraine -- First Russian soldier to be tried for war crime in Ukraine -- Russia shells almost every settlement in Donetsk Oblast -- Luhansk Oblast cut off from communication -- Russia tries to reinforce its garrison on Zmiinyi Island aka Snake Island -- and more

Prosecutors identify another Russian officer suspected of atrocities in Kyiv Oblast -- Russian missiles hit Odesa for the second time on May 9 -- Sanctions begin to ‘bite’ Russia’s industrial base capabilities -- Emergency Service neutralizes 327 explosives in a day -- and more

Over 10,000 Russian alleged war crimes under investigation in Ukraine -- Russian shelling of Azovstal plant not stopping -- Russian forces attack positions they left in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions -- Russian forces fail to capture Popasna, Rubizhne in Luhansk Oblast -- and more

Russian troops kidnap, mutilate Ukrainian lab assistant -- Russian occupiers abducted deputy in occupied Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Oblast -- Russian troops steal, destroy medical equipment -- Russia planned a terrorist attack to blame on Ukraine -- and more

Russia forcibly deports 308 Mariupol residents to Vladivostok, including 90 children -- Russian statements interpreted as veiled threat to attack Odesa Oblast with chemical weapons -- Without national mobilization, Donbas is the last offensive Russia can afford -- Russia places Iskander missile systems 60 kilometres from Ukraine’s border -- and more

Russian forces illegally deport 40,000 civilians from Mariupol -- Russia strikes Ukraine with ‘most intensive [& indiscriminate] missile attacks’ in weeks -- Belarusian senior official threatens Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia -- Russia may be preparing attacks on churches on Orthodox Easter Day -- and more

Satellite imagery suggests bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims -- Russian forces shell chemical plant in Donetsk Oblast -- Pro-Russian party stages fake mayor elections in partially occupied Mariupol -- Bodies of tortured civilians found in Sumy Oblast -- and more

Russian troop movement near Kyiv possibly repositioning, not a real withdrawal -- Prosecutors say Russian troops kidnap mayor in Kherson Oblast -- Russia creating a global food crisis, blocking 94 ships -- 12 people dead, over 30 wounded after Russian missile hits Mykolaiv Regional State Administration -- and more

Ukrainian forces ‘continue to maintain circular defense’ of Mariupol. -- Russian occupiers kidnap another Melitopol official -- Russian forces pushed back 40-60 km from Kryvyi Rih -- Irpin liberated from Russian forces -- and more