Russian journalist Yekaterina Barabash, who faces up to 10 years in prison for criticizing the military, is the subject of an arrest warrant after she disappeared while under house arrest.
Russian drone strikes killed a woman in Zaporizhzhya on April 22, wounding at least 20 people. Meanwhile Ukrainian rescuers in the Sumy region discovered a shaken but apparently uninjured dog in the ruins of a home. The city of Odesa was also hit by Russian Shahed drones.
A massive Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa has hit a housing block in a densely inhabited area, injuring at least three residents including a child.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is waiting for a clear response from Russia about whether it would accept a cease-fire on striking civilian targets.
Ukrainian authorities reported dozens of Russian missile and drone attacks on April 21, a day after US President Donald Trump voiced hope that an agreement would be reached between the two countries this week.
An Easter truce in fighting between Russia and Ukraine appeared to reduce some air strikes on Ukrainian cities, but Kyiv claimed hundreds of violations by Moscow’s forces while calls for an extension went unheeded by the Kremlin.
Russian bloggers and tabloids warn of “black widows” -- women allegedly marrying soldiers to claim death benefits if they die fighting in Ukraine. The claims are stoking public outrage and raising questions about fraud, exploitation, and military secrecy.
Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are being warned about so-called "black widows" -- women who seduce and marry them with the aim of collecting their military death benefits. As RFE/RL's Andrey Cherkasov explains Russian social media, tabloids, and TV talk shows are full of accounts of the scams.
I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on the uncertain path of the "coalition of the willing" forming a potential military mission to Ukraine, and the efforts by European allies to define what post-cease-fire security support in Ukraine could look like.
A 30-hour truce in fighting between Russia and Ukraine does not appear to be fully holding, with both sides accusing the other of violations.
"This is deportation," says the head of a Ukrainian volunteer group that helps people escape from Russian-occupied areas. He says the numbers leaving are growing.
A St. Petersburg court sentenced anti-war activist Darya Kozyreva to nearly three years in prison after ruling she "discredited" the Russian military by gluing a poem to a monument dedicated to a Ukrainian poet.
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