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Human Rights | 2025-04-28

This escalation is a deliberate strategy to bolster Russian forces while coercing Ukrainians to fight against their own nation, analysts say.

Security | 2025-04-28

Russian jamming, which analysts consider an element of hybrid warfare, raises concerns not only in Helsinki but also among NATO allies.

Security | 2025-04-25

'No photography' signs will be posted on major roads and critical infrastructure too across the country.

Security | 2025-04-25

Vilnius authorities have said the city of more than 600,000 residents could be fully evacuated within 48 hours.

Human Rights | 2025-04-24

The tragic events of the mid-1900s should make readers think about today's spreading authoritarianism and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the authors say.

Human Rights | 2025-04-24

In 2024, Russian authorities recorded 87 sex crimes against minors in Russian-occupied territory in Zaporizhzhia province. But human rights activists say the real figures are many times higher.

Security | 2025-04-23

German troops' first permanent foreign deployment since World War II will secure the Baltic countries as a matter of priority.

Society | 2025-04-22

The Russian invasion has turned lives of Ukrainian women into an anxious wait for messages, calls and short-lived reunions.

Society | 2025-04-22

Under the guise of 'restoration' on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, Russian occupiers destroy historical sites, conduct unlawful archeological excavations and haul away artifacts.

Human Rights | 2025-04-21

Russia has killed 605 children in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.

Economy | 2025-04-21

The economy acutely needs migrant workers, but the state is trying its utmost to make their lives harder, deport them or send them to the war in Ukraine.

Crime & Justice | 2025-04-18

Veterans of the invasion of Ukraine are bringing rape and murder to their terrified hometowns.

Society | 2025-04-18

In a city scarred by exile and repression, one Minsk club promoter throws underground raves to help young Belarusians dance through the darkness.

Human Rights | 2025-04-17

The spring draft has turned into a ruse for dragooning young men into the army, where 'voluntary' service ends and an 'involuntary' contract begins, rights defenders warn.

Society | 2025-04-17

After three years of war, elderly survivors are spending their sunset years in makeshift shelters, holding onto memory, dignity and a quiet hope for peace amid the rubble.

Human Rights | 2025-04-16

On the 3rd anniversary of the Bucha atrocities, a Russian court convicted two journalists who investigated the massacre.

Security | 2025-04-16

A Russian nuclear presence in orbit could imperil not only satellites used by Ukraine and its allies in the ongoing war, but also a vast array of civilian and commercial systems.

Security | 2025-04-15

The years of fighting have upended lives, forced the displacement of millions of Ukrainians and made planning nearly impossible.

Security | 2025-04-15

Aware of history, Poles watching the Russian invasion of Ukraine are moving to make another Russian occupation impossible.

Security | 2025-04-14

Sympathetic foreign nationals are supporting Ukraine, while mercenaries from poor countries and fighters from North Korea and China are on Russia's side.

Security | 2025-04-14

The Ukrainian capture of 2 Chinese men fighting alongside the Russian military is much more damaging to Beijing's reputation than its tacit backing of the Russian war effort, analysts say.

Security | 2025-04-11

The US commitment to NATO, Poland and Ukraine has not changed as Washington transfers some responsibilities at the Jasionka base to other NATO allies.

Human Rights | 2025-04-10

Mariupol inhabitants who stayed on under the Russian occupation are 'slowly dying there,' observers say.

Human Rights | 2025-04-09

Army brutality and the prospect of cruel treatment by society are driving Russian soldiers to end it all.

Security | 2025-04-08

The Nordic country has bomb shelters to protect almost all its citizens in case of war. In peacetime, the underground facilities are used for recreational activities.

Security | 2025-04-08

'With this decision, we are sending a clear message: our countries are prepared and can use every necessary measure to defend our territory and freedom,' reads a joint statement.

Human Rights | 2025-04-08

An organization called Rubikus.HelpUA has helped 50,000 Ukrainians flee in the three years of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Crime & Justice | 2025-04-03

Russian agents are luring children on messaging apps and social media, at first offering money for small tasks, then pulling them into the criminal world, officials say.

Diplomacy | 2025-04-02

Direct threats related to the fighting in Ukraine, along with the long-standing deployment of Russian troops in the separatist region of Transnistria, make Moldova unattractive for investors.

Human Rights | 2025-04-01

Russian universities have expelled a number of Turkmen students because they refused to transfer to universities in Kursk or Belgorod province.

Human Rights | 2025-04-01

Feature films and documentaries convey Crimean Tartar suffering under Russian oppression, and provide a record of the movement's history under occupation.

Society | 2025-04-01

The Royal Castle in Warsaw displayed masterpieces from the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts in Ukraine for almost four months.

Security | 2025-04-01

Over three years of war, Ukraine has become the world's largest producer of various types of drones, and engineers continue to develop peerless drone platforms.