Russian bombs tore into Ukrainian cities on Tuesday afternoon and evening, killing more than 20 people and wounding dozens of others. The deadly strikes drew a furious response from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who said they showed the cynicism behind Russia’s announcement of a cease-fire timed to Moscow’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9….
In February 2025, the body of journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was finally returned to Ukraine after months of uncertainty. She was one of 757 Ukrainian casualties handed over by Russian authorities as part of an exchange of prisoners and the dead. Roshchyna had disappeared in the summer of 2023 while reporting from the Russian-occupied territories in…
An installation of 20,000 teddy bears has been placed on the National Mall in Washington DC to draw attention to Ukrainian children believed to have been taken by Russia. The US-based Razom for Ukraine organisation and American Coalition for Ukraine installed the display to represent the estimated 20,000 children that Ukraine says have been sent…
Shorouk Express Following the relaxation of Ukrainian exit rules over the summer, the number of young Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22 entering Germany rose from 19 per week in mid-August to between 1,400 and 1,800 per week in October, according to German media reports citing the German interior ministry. Markus Söder, Bavaria’s conservative premier and an…
Shorouk Express Ukrainian drones set fire to Russian port and oil tanker, Moscow says A Ukrainian drone attack set ablaze the Russian port of Tuapse and an oil tanker, the administration of Russia’s southern region of Krasnodar said today. “In the port of Tuapse, fragments of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) fell on an oil tanker,…
Shorouk Express Without reliable power, Europe’s largest nuclear plant risks losing the cooling needed to keep its reactors stable. “The situation is critical,” warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in late September. “The generators and the plant were not designed for this, and have never operated in this mode for so long. And we already have…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 23. Kryvyi Rih, a city in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, hosted a concert celebrating the 140th anniversary of Uzeyir Hajibeyli, the founder of Azerbaijan’s professional national music and the composer of the first opera in the East, the State Committee for Work with Diaspora told Trend. City officials from the cultural…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly transferred to Russia since Vladimir Putin’s invasion in 2022, and subjected to military training, sexual violence and detention in camps,…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 18. Sahiba Gafarova, Speaker of the Azerbaijani Parliament, and Ruslan Stefanchuk, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, held a phone conversation, Trend reports citing the parliament. The discussion focused on cooperation between the two countries’ parliaments, with both sides expressing satisfaction with the current state of relations. The speakers…
Shorouk Express “Yevgeny Matveev, mayor of the city of Dniprorudne in the region of Zaporizhzhia, was captured at the start of the invasion because he refused to cooperate with the Russian military. He was tortured and finally killed in captivity. At least his body has been returned”. Nataliia Yashchuk is the Senior War Consequences Officer…
