Photo courtesy of Foreign Media Ukrainian air defense claimed to have shot down 15 out of 18 Russian missiles fired at Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian military, air raid sirens were sounded across Ukraine for more than 3 hours in response to Russian missile attacks. According to initial reports, there was no loss of life…
Photo courtesy of Social Media Ukraine has shelled a Russian village in which two civilians were killed. According to a foreign news agency, the local governor has said that a village in the Bryansk region of Russia has been shelled by Ukraine. The governor says that 2 civilians have been killed as a result of…
Photo courtesy of Foreign Media Ukrainian authorities have claimed that Russia launched missile attacks in the capital Kyiv, central and southern regions late at night, killing five people and injuring several others. A Russian missile strike hit a residential building in the central region of Uman, killing 3 people and injuring 8, according to Ukrainian…
Looking back on two of the most difficult periods since the plant opened in 1977, Chernobyl employees shared their personal stories with UN News on the International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day. Ground zero Evgeny Yashin was a 40-year-old chemist at the Chernobyl plant when the nuclear power reactor accident unfolded in April 1986, resulting in…
File photo After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s military spending has increased to a record. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has stated in its research that Europe’s military spending has increased at a record pace in 2022. According to the study, Europe’s military spending has not seen such an increase since the Cold…
In a statement, the dozen experts said representatives from the Russian-owned mercenary outfit had been “offering pardons for criminal sentences to prisoners who join the group and take part in the war in Ukraine, as well as a monthly payment to their relatives”. The experts – members of the Working Group on the use of Mercenaries, the Working Group…
Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), told journalists in Geneva that the civilian death toll in the southern city of Mariupol – besieged and bombarded by Russian missiles – had been particularly high. “My colleagues interviewed a former prisoner of war, and he was from Mariupol and he…
Against the backdrop of the ongoing and deadly Russian invasion of Ukraine, the experts urged the IOC to adopt a decision in that direction, and to go further. Level playing field needed Alexandra Xanthaki, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights and Ashwini K.P., Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia…
