Security | 2025-06-17
Poland warns of Russian cyberthreats as GRU targets supply lines for Ukraine
Poland is concerned about the digital security of public and private entities as Russian cyber-espionage targets local companies.
Security | 2025-06-17
Sumy province, Ukraine, tense as Russian advance closes in
On Ukraine's northern front, where drone warfare rages, the war is anything but frozen.
Human Rights | 2025-06-16
Back to the USSR: Denunciations make a comeback in Russia
Anyone can become a victim of denunciations: from an adult who expresses disagreement with the war in Ukraine to a child who simply did not show up for class.
Human Rights | 2025-06-13
Surge in official IDs for families of fallen troops reveals Russia's war losses
Since the start of the full-scale military aggression against Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has ordered almost 2 million certificates for combat veterans and for the kin of fallen personnel.
Politics | 2025-06-13
Building a nation on lies: How Bolshevik tactics shape modern Russia
While history does not literally repeat itself, it 'rhymes,' say historians.
Security | 2025-06-12
Russia seeks to break through to major Ukrainian cities this summer
Russia's summer offensive amounts to attempts to break through key sections of the front, massive missile and drone attacks and psychological pressure on Ukrainian society, according to analysts.
Human Rights | 2025-06-12
The cost of serving: Russian strikes in Ukraine kill rescue workers en masse
Repeat strikes on first responders are not an accident, according to analysts. Russia's 'double tap' tactics deliberately terrorize emergency services.
Human Rights | 2025-06-11
Russia builds camps for Ukrainian children it abducted
Ukrainian children, illegally deported to Russia, are held in camps from Crimea to Novosibirsk, spanning over 3,300km, according to a new report by Hala Systems.
Science & Technology | 2025-06-11
Ukraine develops homegrown drones to replace Chinese Mavics
Facing Chinese drone supply issues, Ukraine is fast-tracking homegrown alternatives to adapt to shifting battlefield realities and an evolving geopolitical landscape.
Security | 2025-06-10
Ukraine chips away at Russia's hold on Crimea
Ukraine's latest attack on the Crimean Bridge shows that even fortified symbols can fall.
Human Rights | 2025-06-10
Crimean Tatars face 'hybrid deportation' under Russian repression
Eighty-one years after Stalin's expulsions, Crimean Tatars are again being driven from their homeland -- this time by Moscow's steady campaign of fear, arrests and forced displacement.
Security | 2025-06-09
Russia's nuclear secrets spill online, exposing deep disorder
The farthest-reaching data leak about nuclear facilities in Russian history unearthed the blueprints of strategic bases. It humiliated a state that repeatedly tries to intimidate the world with nuclear weapons.
Human Rights | 2025-06-09
They don't want to die: Russian army desertions are climbing
The rise in the number of troops going AWOL from the battlefield may be a sign of irreversible deep changes in Russian society, say analysts.
Environment | 2025-06-06
Closing and shelling coal mines, Russia guts Donbas's industry
The war Russia unleashed has turned a once-flourishing industrial region of Ukraine into an economic and environmental disaster.
Security | 2025-06-06
Russia begins rewiring Europe's largest nuclear plant, raising global stakes
Rewiring of the Zaporizhzhia power station in occupied Ukraine indicates a shift from battlefield gains to nuclear leverage.
Human Rights | 2025-06-05
Migrants in Russian capital face mandatory tracking under new law
Migrants in Moscow must now consent to constant tracking under a new law critics say blurs the line between migration control and state surveillance.
Security | 2025-06-05
Finland fortifies against a gathering Russian threat
After decades of neutrality, Finland is quietly building Europe's most formidable first line of defense.
Human Rights | 2025-06-04
Russian military tortures own men into obedience
Inside Russia's military, a culture of violence and fear has turned the troops against each other, making brutality as common within the ranks as it is on the battlefield.
Crime & Justice | 2025-06-04
Lithuania sues Belarus in International Court over orchestrated migration crisis
Vilnius accuses Alyaksandr Lukashenka's regime of sending desperate poor-country migrants to storm the border of Lithuania and the European Union.
Human Rights | 2025-06-03
Ukrainian women and youth lead humanitarian front during the war
New research reveals the pivotal role of women in organizing humanitarian aid across Ukraine and Poland, highlighting a growing wave of young volunteers sustaining relief efforts amid war.
Security | 2025-06-03
Ukraine shatters myth of Kremlin invincibility
Outgunned Ukraine blew up strategic bombers that unsuspecting Russia had parked outdoors in the Far North and Far East. Ukraine has once again proven that nowhere is safe in Russia.
Security | 2025-06-02
Russian nuclear missile launch fizzles without explanation
The Kremlin planned a nuclear missile launch to intimidate the West, but the launch never happened. Flaws in Russia's aging arsenal are coming to light.
Human Rights | 2025-06-02
Russia scrubs World War II history by removing Polish memorials
Warsaw is denouncing the removal of national symbols from the Polish War Cemetery in Mednoye, Russia, where up to 6,500 Polish officers murdered by Joseph Stalin are buried.