On 21 May, the head of the Ukrainian human rights organization Almenda, Mariia Sulialina, will come to Stockholm to receive the Civil Rights Defender of the Year Award, which she got for “outstanding resilience and commitment to human rights, democracy, and children’s right to shape their own future,” according to the international non-governmental organization based in Sweden. The Civil Rights Defenders was founded as the Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in 1982. The organization comprises eight branches worldwide and supports human rights defenders who work in the most repressive ..read more

On 25 April in Berlin, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg stated that “it’s not too late for Ukraine to prevail” against Russia, emphasizing the need for allies to fulfill their promises of delivering more weapons, according to AFP. “In recent months, NATO allies have not provided the support we have promised,” Stoltenberg said on a visit to Berlin. “But it is not too late for Ukraine to prevail, because more support is on the way.” With US aid stalled for six months, Ukraine has faced battlefield setbacks and lost some ground to Russian forces due to shortages of ammunition and weapons. But th ..read more

On 25 April, the second day of the meeting of the 7th All Belarusian People’s Assembly, a regular propaganda event convened to demonstrate unanimous support for Belarusian ruler Aliaksandr Lukashenka, the self-proclaimed president and his entourage made a series of anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian statements to show that Belarus is under a threat, which followed by the assembly unanimous approval Lukashenka’s new National Security Concept and Military Doctrine of the Republic of Belarus. Among the relentless stream of propaganda narratives, two particularly absurd stories stood out: the Belaru ..read more

Exclusive US sanctions deep freeze Russia’s Arctic-2 LNG hub. Here’s what can kill it for good. Russia’s flagship LNG project is having a tanker problem, courtesy of America. But it still stands a chance, courtesy of China. Military Frontline report: Ukrainians retake the initiative and gain ground. Russian forces are beginning to show fatigue both in terms of equipment and personnel resources, while Ukrainian forces continue to show a remarkable ability to repel Russian attacks in the area. Military: Russia suffers 85% of losses in the Eastern sector. According to the spokesperson for ..read more

As reported by European Pravda with reference to AFP, the US hopes that the allies’ decision to transfer long-range missiles, particularly ATACMS, to Ukraine will prompt Germany to do the same with regards to its Taurus cruise missiles. A senior US defense official stressed on the condition of anonymity that it was Germany that should make the decision to provide Taurus to Ukraine. “But certainly the provision of the ATACMS system by the United States, as well as previous decisions by Britain and France to provide long-range cruise missiles – we certainly hope that will be a factor,” the off ..read more

Day 792: 24 April Today, there is a lot of news from the Lyman direction. Here, Russian forces refused to accept the defeat  in the Battle for Terny, and suddenly opened a new vector of attack to prevent the collapse of their bridgehead, and retake the initiative back in their hands. Russian forces tried to make a decisive breakthrough that would enable them to secure a safe crossing of the Zherebets River and thus advance on the town of Lyman. Screenshot from Reporting from Ukraine video Last time, the Russians conducted a series of massive mechanized attacks in a quest to advance a ..read more

Russia launched missile attacks on multiple Ukrainian railway facilities, resulting in at least three deaths and dozens of injuries. In Donetsk Oblast, an Iskander-M cruise missile struck the railway in Udachne village, killing three railway workers and wounding four others.  Ukrainian Railways expressed condolences to the families of the three killed electromechanics: Bohdan Kovalov (26), Mykhailo Bandrivskyi (26) and Serhiy Kuznetsov (37). “Russians struck the village this afternoon. The administrative building, a cultural institution, a café, and about 20 private houses were damaged ..read more

In yet another cruel attack on civilian infrastructure, Russian forces fired a missile that struck the railway station in the town of Balakliya in Kharkiv Oblast on Tuesday, wounding 10 civilian people. The strike occurred in the late afternoon as an electric commuter train was stopped at the Balakliya station, according to Oleh Syniehubov, head of Kharkiv region military administration. The missile impacted just 50 feet (15 meters) away from the passenger train, damaging the rail cars. Disturbing photos circulated by Ukrainian authorities show the twisted wreckage of the train with shattered ..read more

Western sanctions have left Russia’s flagship Arctic LNG-2 project out in the cold, suspending production and threatening the country’s bid to dominate a fifth of the global LNG market. But experts say more must be done to permanently sink the Kremlin’s gas export plans and its war chest. Ukrainian NGO Razom We Stand reveals the key pressure points to target next. What is Arctic LNG-2? The Arctic LNG-2 project, located on the Gyda Peninsula above the Arctic Circle in Siberia, was envisioned as a major expansion of Russia’s LNG export capacity, with a projected 19.8 million tons per year. If f ..read more

The US State Department has called the suspension of consular services abroad for Ukrainian men of mobilization age a “complicated issue.” This was stated by Daniel Sizek, an official representative of the US diplomatic mission in Brussels, in a commentary to Radio Liberty. “It’s a difficult question, it’s clear what to do, especially with men who are now outside of Ukraine. But the government of Ukraine has the right to determine its policy,” the State Department representative said. When asked whether the United States would help Ukraine bring the men home, Sizek responded by saying that ..read more