A new film about the 2020 protests in Belarus will make the rounds at European film festivals. “Minsk” tells the story of one couple who witnessed and became the victims of the authorities’ brutal crackdown on Belarusians. The producer, Vit...

United Nations chiefs held talks with Russian officials Friday, Nov. 11, on the Black Sea agreements on exporting grain and fertilisers, eight days before one of the deals is set to expire. The discussions took place behind closed doors at the UN Pal...

In order to get around the Russian government’s blocking, five investigative media organizations—including Proekt (Project), Vazhnye istorii (Important Stories), The Insider, Bellingcat, and the Alexei Navalny team—launched an app called Sa...

Smiles, flowers from local people and mines planted by the Russians greeted Ukrainian soldiers advancing on Kherson, a major city in the south liberated from Moscow’s forces on Friday, Nov. 11. “We see attractive, smiling faces, flowers, ...

In a supermarket car park in Bakhmut, the eastern Ukrainian city at the centre of the fighting for the Donbas region, Anatoliy is rushing to load up his truck with coal for him and his neighbours, determined to stay dug in for the winter. Around half...

Funds for the purchase of the first Ukrainian-made marine drone have already been collected, it will be called Kherson, Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says on Telegram. “Funds have been raised for the first marine drone. It wi...

The European Commission, Czechia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank Group signed a joint declaration providing for nearly EU...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Kherson “ours” after Russia withdrew troops from the city, which the US hailed Saturday as an “extraordinary victory”. “We are winning battles on the ground. But the war co...

The first Ukrainian soldiers have arrived in the center of Kherson, prompting scenes of utter joy and celebration among residents who have lived under Russian occupation since the beginning of March. Surrounded by a crowd chanting “ZSU!”, which i...

On 11 November 2022, Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed their withdrawal from Kherson had been completed. Russian forces highly likely destroyed road and rail bridges over the Dnipro River as part of this process. The completion of the withdrawal...