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Warning: This story discusses sexual violence. Oleksiy Sivak has found comfort in conversation. Before Russia went on a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the 40-year-old spent almost half of his life working on international merchant and passenger fleets as a sailor. For 17 years, he ventured from his sea-sprayed city of Kherson to ensure ships were in good working order. His language became how the ocean moved. “But the invasion put an end to my work and my career,” Sivak tells Euronews. As Moscow invaded its neighbour, hoping to blitz the country, Russian tanks and soldiers stormed the...
Euronews (English)
Liza Dmitrieva, a four-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome, was walking with her mother to a speech therapy appointment in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022. As her mother filmed her playfully pushing her stroller, she didn’t know that those were to be the last moments of Liza’s life. Minutes later, Russian missiles struck the city, killing Liza and severely injuring her mother. The attack killed a total of 29 people and injured over 200 more. Such attacks have been a daily reality across Ukraine for the last two-and-a-half years, killing an average of over 40 civilians p...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Liza Dmitrieva, a four-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome, was walking with her mother to a speech therapy appointment in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022. As her mother filmed her playfully pushing her stroller, she didn’t know that those were to be the last moments of Liza’s life. Minutes later, Russian missiles struck the city, killing Liza and severely injuring her mother. The attack killed a total of 29 people and injured over 200 more. Such attacks have been a daily reality across Ukraine for the last two-and-a-half years, killing an average of over 40 civilians p...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Liza Dmitrieva, a four-year-old girl with Down’s syndrome, was walking with her mother to a speech therapy appointment in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022. As her mother filmed her playfully pushing her stroller, she didn’t know that those were to be the last moments of Liza’s life. Minutes later, Russian missiles struck the city, killing Liza and severely injuring her mother. The attack killed a total of 29 people and injured over 200 more. Such attacks have been a daily reality across Ukraine for the last two-and-a-half years, killing an average of over 40 civilians p...
Kyiv Independent
Judges at a European Union-backed court convicted a former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter on Tuesday for the murder of one person and the illegal detention and torture of nearly 20 more during his country's war of independence in 1999. Pjetër Shala, also known by the nickname "Wolf", was found guilty of three war crimes — murder, torture and arbitrary detention — by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a court that is part of the Kosovo legal system but based in the Netherlands. He was sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment. Shala was acquitted of a charge of cruel treatment because the trial panel ...
Euronews (English)
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for top Russian officials over attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets. On Tuesday, the court accused former Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of staff General Valery Gerasimov of war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a statement, court officials announced that warrants had been issued as judges believe there are reasonable grounds that the two men are responsible for “missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure”. The dates for the crimes were said to range fr...
Euronews (English)
By Johannes LEDEL Stockholm (AFP) - Un tribunal de Stockholm a acquitté jeudi un ancien général syrien accusé de crimes de guerre dans son pays en 2012, jugeant insuffisantes les preuves de son implication. Mohammed Hamo, âgé de 65 ans et vivant en Suède, a été jugé au printemps pour "complicité" de crimes de guerre entre janvier et juillet 2012. L'armée syrienne a bien commis des "attaques aveugles, contraires au droit international" dans un quartier de Homs (centre) et dans la ville d'Al Rastan en 2012 mais "aucune preuve" n'a été présentée pour démontrer que la 11e division de l'ancien géné...
AFP (Français)
War crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups might have taken place in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over the weekend and killed hundreds of Palestinians, The UN Human Rights Office said. Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence expressed concerns about possible violations of rules of proportionality, distinction and precaution by the Israeli forces in Saturday’s raid at the urban Nuseirat refugee camp. Palestinian health officials say at least 274 Palestinians, including dozens of women and children, were killed in the operation. Laurence sai...
Euronews (English)
The Kyiv Independent's journalists have identified two Russian soldiers who were involved in the rape of two women during the occupation of Kyiv and Kherson oblasts in March 2022. The findings have served as the basis for the Kyiv Independent's documentary about Russian sexual violence in occupied parts of Ukraine – He Came Back – available in English and Ukrainian. The Kyiv Independent confirmed that Mykola Senenko, a soldier with the 109th Motorized Rifle Regiment, raped a woman in Krasnivka, Kherson Oblast. Senenko’s unit, part of the Russian-controlled proxy army based in occupied Donetsk ...
Kyiv Independent
The Kyiv Independent's journalists have identified two Russian soldiers who were involved in the rape of two women during the occupation of Kyiv and Kherson oblasts in March 2022. The findings have served as the basis for the Kyiv Independent's documentary about Russian sexual violence in occupied parts of Ukraine – He Came Back – available in English and Ukrainian. The Kyiv Independent confirmed that Mykola Senenko, a soldier with the 109th Motorized Rifle Regiment, raped a woman in Krasnivka, Kherson Oblast. Senenko’s unit, part of the Russian-controlled proxy army based in occupied Donetsk ...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
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