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Poland seeks arrest of Russian air traffic controllers linked to President Kaczynski’s plane crash

Posted on September 18, 2020 by RedSquareMaidan One comment

Thursday, September 17, 2020 10:00:00 AM – UA Wire The investigative team of the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office appealed to the District Court of Warsaw with a request for the temporary arrest of three Russian air traffic controllers who were working at Smolensk airport when the plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed in 2010, a spokeswoman for Poland’s National Prosecutor’s

U.S. intel: Russia continues positioning military equipment in Libya via PMC Wagner

Posted on July 25, 2020 by RedSquareMaidan 3 comments

Russia continues to violate UN Security Council Resolution UNSCR 1970

The Executioners Of Slovyansk

Posted on July 24, 2020 by RedSquareMaidan 2 comments

By Christopher Miller Contributing reporters: Sergei Dobrynin and Mark Krutov July 23, 2020 – RFE/RL A Death Squad Unmasked As Ukraine War Grinds On Six Years Later After an RFE/RL investigation, names and faces can now be put to the Russia-backed militants — including one with ties to a longtime Putin aide in the Kremlin — who ordered the extrajudicial

EU reacts to murder of combat medic in Donbas

Posted on July 16, 2020 by foccusser 3 comments

EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy calls on Russia to take responsibility for it The European Union has pointed out violations of the Minsk and Normandy agreements by the Russian Federation regarding the murder of a Ukrainian doctor in Donbas. A relevant statement was made by the EU Delegation in Kyiv. “The escalation of violence in Donbas, incl.

War crime: Ukraine calls on OSCE to respond to killing of doctor in Donbas

Posted on July 15, 2020 by foccusser 3 comments

Ukraine has called on OSCE participating states to respond to the killing by Russian occupation forces of a Ukrainian combat medic during an evacuation operation in Donbas, which constitutes a war crime, Deputy Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna Ihor Lossovskyi has said. He said this at a joint meeting of the OSCE Forum for Security

Putin and Milosevic: Blood brothers

Posted on July 13, 2020 by RedSquareMaidan 4 comments

2020/07/12 – 19:16 – Euromaidan Press – Article by: David L. Phillips David L. Phillips is the Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Slobodan Milosevic and Vladimir Putin are cut from the same cloth. Just as the West’s experience with Milosevic can inform its approach to Putin, diplomacy during the Yugoslav crisis

Tortures in Donbas: Ukraine prosecutors identify about 600 victims

Posted on May 26, 2020 by RedSquareMaidan 2 comments

Donbas terrorists torture Ukrainian civilians / Photo from a media outlet controlled by ‘DPR’/’LPR’

Russian War Crimes Bedevil Ukraine

Posted on May 25, 2020 by foccusser 10 comments

They should be bedeviling President Trump as well. He’ll need to speak out soon. President Trump’s policy toward Russia has been confusing to many people. His too-often stated and too-fulsome praises of Russian President-for-Life Vladimir Putin left many conservatives bewildered. Trump’s words haven’t been consistent with his actions against Russia. Leftists have been happy to overlook the actions and focus

UN Monitors Say Mercenaries From Russia’s Vagner Group Fighting In Libya

Posted on May 7, 2020 by RedSquareMaidan 4 comments

Mercenaries from a shadowy Russian group are believed to be supporting Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled Libyan National Army in fighting against the country’s internationally-recognized government.

Russia committed war crimes in Syria, finds UN report

Posted on March 3, 2020 by foccusser 5 comments

The country was also blamed for indiscriminate attacks in civilian areas without ‘a specific military objective’ A UN investigation into atrocities committed in Syria has for the first time accused Russia of direct involvement in war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas. The latest report from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria focuses on events of July

Crimea: From treachery to repression

Posted on February 24, 2020 by foccusser 3 comments

What crimes Russia committed during the occupation of the Crimea and which are still committed on the peninsula Ukrainian human rights organizations and prosecutors have sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) eight reports on war crimes and crimes against humanity that have occurred in Ukraine since the aggression of Russia. The latter – transmitted in early 2020 – contains evidence

Russia’s war crimes: Deputy Prosecutor General tells ICC representatives about hundreds of proceedings

Posted on February 20, 2020 by foccusser 2 comments

Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Giunduz Mamedov held a meeting with representatives of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to discuss the evidence of Russian aggression in Donbas and Crimea. “The Ukrainian law enforcement agencies of Ukraine under the coordination of the Prosecutor General’s Office continue to gather evidence of the international-scale armed conflict and the