The Russian Supreme Court has ruled that the “international LGBT movement” is an extremist organization that is no longer allowed to exist in Russia. In a closed hearing attended only by representatives of Russia’s Justice Ministry, the Russian Supreme Court heard a motion originally filed on Nov. 19 challenging the allowance of the international LGBT movement in Russia. Journalists... 

The situation in Kherson, Ukraine, has escalated into a humanitarian crisis as the region grapples with devastating flooding compounded by Russian aggression. Amid the chaos of people fleeing their inundated homes, Vladimir Putin’s forces have reportedly targeted residential areas and evacuation points, leaving civilians injured and at least one person dead. The flooding, triggered by the destruction... 

Vladimir Putin is reportedly preparing a contingency plan in the event that Russia sustains more losses in the war against Ukraine, sources have said. Russia’s presidential administration sent out an instruction manual to the Kremlin’s team of propagandists, urging his people not to ‘underestimate’ Ukraine’s planned counter-offensive and also not to spread the idea Kyiv... 

Russian FSB agents and armed soldiers have prowled a Ukrainian orphanage to abduct children and send then to Moscow, chilling CCTV footage shows. Ukrainian intelligence claims a staggering 13,000 orphans as young as toddlers have been kidnapped and shipped to Russia where they are indoctrinated with pro-Kremlin propaganda, while teenagers are trained to be soldiers. Volodymyr Sahaidak is the director... 

Russia has said it no longer wants to change the government in Ukraine, despite regime change being a key early objective of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. At the beginning of the war, Putin sent troops into Ukraine with the objective of overthrowing the Ukrainian government and installing a Russia-friendly regime. But now, nine months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson... 

Ukrainian investigators have uncovered a torture dungeon in the recently liberated city of Kherson, following the discovery of 63 bodies with signs of torture. Reports say a former juvenile detention centre had been repurposed by Russian forces as a facility to inflict electrocutions, suffocations and beatings upon civilians, before their bodies were disposed of. Neighbours allegedly witnessed bodies... 

Ukrainian soldiers uncovered a torture chamber after they liberated Mykolaiv and Kherson from Russian troops on Friday. It is the latest evidence to suggest Putin’s thugs are responsible for war crimes during Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. A makeshift Russian prison used to torture and interrogate Ukrainian dissidents was filmed on fire in Kherson last night after the area was liberated... 

Russia will retreat from the city of Kherson in the most-humiliating loss yet for Putin’s military, its top commander has announced. General Sergei Surovikin, who is leading the war, said the city is now impossible to defend and that troops will withdraw across the Dnipro River ‘in the near future’ to defend the other bank. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has agreed to the plan Witnesses... 

Russia has mined a huge hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine in a plot to unleash a devastating flood, officials in Kyiv have warned. Moscow’s ‘nuclear blackmail’ had failed and the Kremlin was now resorting to new scare tactics, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office Andriy Yermak said last night. ‘Ukraine will not succumb to peace by coercion,’ he added. ‘They won’t break us.... 

Vladimir Putin has declared martial law in the occupied regions of Ukraine as officials began evacuating civilians from the city of Kherson, with a battle for control of the stronghold now looming. Putin said the order will come into effect from midnight in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions – giving him sweeping powers to curtail the freedoms of civilians, repurpose industries,... 

A Ukrainian conductor has been shot dead in his own home by Russian troops for refusing to take part in a concert in occupied territory, Kyiv has claimed. Yuriy Kerpatenko snubbed the Kremlin-backed concert ‘intended by the occupiers to demonstrate the so-called ‘improvement of peaceful life’ in Kherson’, the Ukrainian culture ministry said. The October 1 concert was scheduled... 

As Moscow’s grip on Ukrainian territories weakens, the Russian-installed governor of Ukraine’s Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, urged residents to evacuate, signaling a significant setback for Vladimir Putin’s forces. The call came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s counter-offensive gained momentum, forcing Putin’s military to evacuate civilians from Russian-annexed... 

The Security Service of Ukraine released images of a pig farm where soldiers of one of the Russian units in Kherson, a region where Ukrainian forces are carrying out a counteroffensive through which they were liberated many localities. In the images it can be seen that the Russian soldiers had made sleeping places in pig cages and literally lived like pigs, in a misery that is hard to describe in... 

Ukraine has pushed Russia back by 12 miles in the south as dramatic footage reveals the blistering pace of attacks that have sent Putin’s men fleeing for their lives. Videos taken in Kherson in recent days show Ukrainian forces storming Russian defences in American-made Humvees under artillery fire, and soldiers advancing en masse across fields in the face of the retreating enemy. Ukraine’s... 

As Vladimir Putin intensifies his focus on the controversial annexation of Ukraine, his abandonment of allies becomes starkly evident, leaving Armenia to grapple with escalating tensions with Azerbaijan. The region is witnessing a surge in violence, with over 200 Armenian soldiers and 80 Azerbaijani troops losing their lives in clashes on September 13-14 and later on September 28, marking the most...