If there's one way European Union officials feel they can get a seat at the table when it comes the settlement of the war in Ukraine, it is via the 176 billion euros of Russian frozen assets currently held inside the bloc and how that can be leveraged both politically and economically.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris for talks with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, kicking off another week of intense diplomacy aimed at ending nearly four years of fighting in Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine’s need to get people to the front to fight the Russian invasion is also creating a manpower problem nationwide, with labor shortages hitting many industries and some towns virtually empty of conscription-age men.
In an award-winning investigation conducted jointly with OCCRP, Schemes determined the identity of a doctor whose conduct stood out in the memories of inmates who said they suffered near-constant violence and abuse at IK-10, a prison in Russia’s Mordovia region.
Ukrainian ex-prisoners of war say they endured sadistic beatings and torture with electric shocks at the hands of a medic they called "Dr. Evil." In an award-winning investigation by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, the prison doctor was identified as Ilya Sorokin and now faces EU sanctions.
Top US and Ukrainian officials wrapped up their talks in Florida, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling the session "very productive" but saying additional work was needed in the effort to thrash out a plan to end Russia's war on Ukraine.
Serhiy Akhmetov sat down with RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service a few weeks after his release from Russian prison for an interview in which he recalled beatings, food shortages, and desperate efforts to get news after he was arrested in Bucha by Russian soldiers.
Russia launched a series of massive air attacks on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands with the country already reeling from a political scandal that has reached the upper echelons of power.
Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) are conducting searches in the office of the presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, NABU said in a statement on November 28.
Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign is hitting Russia’s oil and gas sector on an almost daily basis, knocking out an estimated 10 percent of refining capacity as Kyiv doubles down on strikes aimed at squeezing Moscow’s wartime revenues.
More than half of Russia's major oil refineries are going up in flames, hit by Ukrainian drone attacks. So could this new wave of strikes actually change the course of the war? Oil and gasoline shortages are visible now in Russia, with export revenues down nearly a fifth from last year.
The White House’s point man for trying to hammer out an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine is headed back to Moscow for a sixth visit. It’s another sign that negotiations are intensifying.
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