War in Ukraine

The Yanukovych family has a legacy of corruption and exploiting Ukraine’s coal-rich regions. A new investigation reveals that the son of the ousted former president is once again profiting from Ukraine’s suffering and is linked to the illicit extraction and sale of coal from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory.

Putin says Sumy was an accident, but his well-documented history of attacking Ukrainian civilians on holidays like Easter and Christmas says otherwise.

Yasni Ochi is a strike drone unit within the 13th Khartiia Brigade. Just three and a half years ago, none of its members had any military ties. Today, they’re among the most effective drone teams on the entire front. We traveled to the Kharkiv region to watch their training and meet one of their operators, Serhii. He used to blow up clubs with his music, but now he blows up Russian armor.

In response to occupation, Ukrainian citizens have built underground resistance networks in cities and villages under Russian control. Millions of Ukrainians remain in these temporarily occupied territories, many continuing to resist.

Shaheds are still primarily used by Russia to target civilian cities and energy infrastructure, which the Geneva Conventions prohibit. Russia has made even deadlier, aiming to cause even more devastation.

In recent ceasefire talks over the Black Sea, Russia demanded more than diplomatic concessions: it asked for a financial lifeline. Tucked into a technical clause of the US-Russia negotiations was a pledge that Washington would help restore Moscow’s access to global agricultural markets, a move that could quietly reopen channels the Kremlin has used to prop up its war effort.