This text is a lecture in memory of Professor Stefan Riesenfeld of the Berkeley School of Law. Every year in his honour, the university hosts a symposium on international law. This time it was devoted to mass crimes of the 21st century and their docum…
“Yakuza” is the word that Russian personnel in the occupied city of Berdiansk use for representatives of the FSB, adding, “We are the force, and they are the brain”.
A mole in the SSU?
February 2023. A 53-year-old grey-bearded man in sportswear is br…
A Russian serviceman who was hiding in abandoned buildings after the occupation of these territories was detained in the Kupiansk district of Kharkiv Oblast.
Source: Ukrainian National Police in Kharkiv Oblast
Quote: “A special purpose police bat…
In the first half of February 2022, two weeks before the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two interconnected events took place in Kharkiv. First, officers of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence carried out some so-called additional intel…
Among the typical landscapes of Kharkiv Oblast – small rivers and towns, untouched pine forests stretching up to the sky, and the tall chimneys of industrial facilities – the limit of the Russian occupation is clearly visible.
The surrounding terr…
A representative of the Belarusian Secret Service who went to fight against Ukraine as part of the Russian private military company Redut has been sentenced in Ukraine to 10 years in prison for mercenarism.
Source: Press service of Security Service of …
Vitalii Hanchev, one of the Russian occupiers’ collaborators, has stated that Russian troops are planning to recapture those settlements of Kharkiv Oblast that were liberated in autumn 2022.
Source: RIA Novosti, Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet
Quot…
At least 10 articles condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have appeared on the website of the Kremlin-aligned news outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP) on the evening of 11 February.
Source: Meduza, a Latvia-based Russian media outlet, citing Prodolzhen…
Russian forces carried out a major missile strike on Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia oblasts on the morning of 10 February, launching a record 35 S-300 missiles from Belgorod Oblast (Russia) and from near Tokmak (Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine).
Source: Oblast …
On 6 February, an anonymous adviser to the Ukrainian military told the Financial Times that Russia would launch a new major attack on Ukraine within the next 10 days.
This estimate corresponds to the statements made by Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s Defen…