• European Court of Human Rights tells Russia to halt execution of captured Moroccan fighter in Ukraine

    The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to stop the execution of Brahim Saadoun, a Moroccan national who was captured in April and was handed a death sentence last week in a court in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic.

    Saadoun, 21, and two British citizens, Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were accused of working as foreign mercenaries. All three had officially enlisted in the Ukrainian armed forces.

    The European court made the intervention after a representative for …

  • US State Department says China on wrong side of history for backing Russia

    After Chinese President Xi Jinping declared his support for Russia’s “sovereignty and security” during a Wednesday phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the US State Department said countries siding with the Kremlin over the invasion of Ukraine will be “on the wrong side of history”, the Washington Post reported.

    Xi said China is “willing to work with Russia to continue supporting each other on their respective core interests concerning sovereignty and security,” according to …

  • US prosecutors move to seize bank account belonging to Russian oligarch who called invasion of Ukraine a ‘holy war’

    Federal prosecutors in New York announced they were moving to seize $5.3 million from a bank account belonging to pro-Kremlin Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev.

    The Russian tycoon was placed on a US sanctions list that was released on April 20th and was aimed towards "a global network of more than 40 individuals and entities led by US-designated Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev."

    Malofeyev had previously been subject to US sanctions in 2014 for his support of separatists in the …

  • Ukrainian military analyst: Russian offensive in Donbas has started losing steam

    Military expert and reserve colonel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleh Zhdanov believes that by the end of June Russian troops will switch to trench warfare.

    "In principle, today the intensity of the hostilities is decreasing. The Russians are trying to resume the offensive in certain areas around Severodonetsk, but this is not as powerful an offensive as it was at the beginning of last week, when the situation seemed almost critical for us, and the threat of encirclement was very big," …

  • Erdogan is planning to host talks between Zelensky and Putin

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning to host new talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss grain exports, reported the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

    "Negotiations are continuing. Last night we had conversations with some officials. Next week we will discuss what steps we can take during talks with Zelensky and Putin," Erdogan said.

    On June 7, Turkish Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar told Anadolu that Turkey is in …