Among the foreign fighters heading to Ukraine to fight against Russia are dissidents from Belarus living in exile. They see the war as a battle both against Vladimir Putin’s forces but also against the regime of the Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko, which
“Russians don’t open humanitarian corridors, they don’t let humanitarian convoys enter the city and we clearly see now that the goal of the Russians is to start to [create] hunger [in the city] to enforce their position in the diplomatic process and
“Putin is likely not mentally ill, nor he has changed, although he is in more of a hurry, and likely more isolated in recent years,” says Ken Dekleva, a former US government physician and diplomat, and currently a senior fellow at the
A senior Western intelligence official told the BBC that Russia thought it could deploy lighter, spearhead units like the Spetsnatz and VDV paratroopers, “to eliminate a small number of defenders and that would be it”. But in the first few days their
I ask if she has a message for Vladimir Putin. “No,” she replies, firmly. “No, it seems to me that this man has already lost his sanity and he does not think clearly. Because a sane human can not do something like
Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, called for better access to civilians caught up in the war, which he said was causing “enormous suffering”. Mr Maurer, who arrived in Ukraine for a five-day visit, described the
Images of Ms Ovsyannikova’s protest were quickly shared across the world after she ran on to the set of one of Russia’s most-watched news programmes, Vremya, holding a sign reading “No war, stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying
This is the story of one shell that hit one flat and destroyed one family, but almost three weeks into Russia’s invasion there are countless other families like this across Ukraine. Maryna wants to tell her story for the sake of Myhailo,
“Somebody offered to take us to the other bridge and we crossed a checkpoint, and they start shooting at us. So the driver turned around, and they kept shooting; there’s two of us. My friend is Brent Renaud, and he’s been shot
Tens of thousands of Russians have left the country since the invasion of Ukraine. They’re mostly young and liberal – they’re shocked by the war and economic sanctions, and are concerned by the latest crackdown on dissent led by President Putin. An