Yevhenia Tahanovych is a journalist with Current Time, a Russian-language network run by RFE/RL in cooperation with VOA.
Speaking to Current Time in Riga on October 22, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot change the course of war in Ukraine by dropping nuclear bombs.
In an interview with Current Time, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said he sees little prospects of resolving the war in Ukraine “until we see the clear defeat of Russia.”
In an interview with Current Time, the head of Ukraine’s state-run railroad said “honest people” among Belarusian railroad workers have completely cut off efforts to supply Russian forces by train via Belarus. "I can say that there is no railway connection between Ukraine and Belarus,” he said.
Russian forces are threatening to shoot municipal officials in Kherson, according to a councilor from the Ukrainian city, where the Russian Army has seized control. Sergei Khlan said the Russians were searching for local activists and officials who were now in hiding.
Russian forces have tried to intimidate local officials working in the occupied southern Ukrainian city of Kherson and deployed officers from a notorious, now-disbanded riot police unit as part of that effort, a local administration official said.
