At least three feminist activists have been detained for vandalising a monument outside the United Nations building in Geneva to protest Russia’s war against Ukraine and what they see as the UN's failure to stop the conflict.
The bodies of 403 soldiers were recovered from Donetsk Oblast, while 57 and 12 bodies were brought back from Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk oblasts. Another 31 bodies were repatriated from morgues in Russia.
The Austrian charity organization Caritas has called on citizens and the federal government in Austria to continue assisting the Ukrainian people, especially through the most challenging winter since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Australian officials have launched an urgent investigation after a video emerged on social media that appeared to show an Australian man being questioned and slapped by Russian fighters.
Yevhen Tsymbaliuk, who until 2023 held the post of Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the international organizations in Vienna, has been appointed Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.
In Ukraine, the ambassadors of China, Serbia, and Saudi Arabia began their diplomatic missions. They presented their letters of credence to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to the Ukrainian president's statement on Facebook.
GENEVA -- At least three feminist activists were detained on Friday after vandalizing a monument outside the United Nations complex in Geneva to protest Russia's war against Ukraine and what they ...
The artwork symbolizes the dismemberment caused by land mines and is a call to ban the devastating weapons, which have also been used in the war in Ukraine. The two women wore bands in the blue ...
The Kyiv Independent reported that Zelensky's announcement comes on the heels of Ukraine's parliament confirming on September 5 Andrii Sybiha as the new foreign minister after Dmytro Kuleba's resignation. It is all part of "a shift in Kyiv's diplomatic team amid the ongoing challenges posed by war," the outlet said.
Topless members of the Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen took chainsaws to a giant wooden sculpture outside the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, prompting police to intervene, witnesses said.
"While you are waiting for Christmas — we are waiting for our loved ones to return from Russian captivity," say the families of Ukrainian prisoners of war holding rallies to remember people held in Russian prisons and torture chambers.