Ukrainian prisoners of war recount the unspeakable torture they endured in Russian captivity in a new human rights report A woman honours the victims of the Olenivka prison camp explosion, in which over 50 people were killed, at a rally held on Independence Square in Kyiv, 28 July 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO “They forced us onto all fours — elbows and knees. They beat our backs with stun guns to make us crawl faster, even though many of us were wounded.

What is known about this and other possible diversions of Moscow in Europe Smoke in the sky above the burning shopping center in Warsaw, May 12, 2024. Photo: Attila Husejnow / Sopa Images / Sipa USA / Vida Press The Polish authorities directly accused Russia of organizing arson of the largest shopping center of Warsaw a year ago. According to the Polish investigation, behind the attack are Russian special services acting through mercenaries.

Photo: Vyacheslav Gladkov’s Telegram channel Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov of Russia’s southwestern Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, accused locals on Sunday of deliberately leaving old cars exposed on the streets in the hope of receiving compensation payments if they were struck by drones or incoming artillery fire, independent news channel 7x7 has reported.

Report with the underground Moscow exhibition “And I saw a new sky and new earth” in Zaryadye - about a special war and its ideologist Photo: Anastasia Antoshechkina The exhibition opened on April 30-on the 80th anniversary of the suicide of Adolf Hitler. Of course, it is unlikely that anyone thought about it-just on the May holidays they suffered a lot of what they did not have time to organize by February 24. The name - “And I saw a new sky and new earth” - taken from the apocalypse.

Photo: Sotavision The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced Olga Sivushkov to the four years of the colony of general transzhen region in the case of justification of terrorism, Mediazona reports . The charge requested four years of imprisonment for Sivushkova. The reason for initiating the case was a link to an interview with Mark Feigin with the representative of the Liberty of Russia Legion, the ultra-right activist Maximilian Andronnikov.

The fire at the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw, Poland, on 12 May 2024. Photo: Dariusz Borowicz / Agencja Wyborcza.pl / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has ordered the closing of Russia’s consulate in Kraków, Poland’s second city, after accusing Moscow of carrying out “a reprehensible act of sabotage” at a Warsaw shopping centre last year.

Photo: Ludovic Marin / Pool / EPA-EFE A video of European leaders shot by the Associated Press on a train from Kyiv went viral on Sunday amid allegations that it features a “drug parcel” and “cocaine spoon”, accusations that the French government has denounced as “fake news”.

Photo: Vyacheslav Gladkov During the meeting of the Government of the Belgorod Region, the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said that some residents did not specifically drive old cars in garages to get compensation after shelling. The publication “7x7” drew attention to this. “I myself heard the conversations of relatives: our settlement is sheated, let's roll out the car from the garage, maybe they will fire - at least we will receive the money.

A Rolls-Royce turbine is displayed at the Microsoft booth at the Hanover Fair in Germany, 30 March 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE Aerospace giants Boeing and Rolls-Royce have hired lobbyists to try to prevent the US Congress from introducing further sanctions against Russia, Novaya Gazeta Europe has discovered after analysing the information published on the US House of Representatives’ lobbying disclosure website.

Photo: Mark R. Christino / EPA-EFE The authorities of the United States and China, "recognizing the importance of bilateral economic and trade relations," decided to reduce trade duties by 90 days, starting on May 14. This is stated in a press release from the White House. Up to this point, US duties for a number of goods from China reached 145%, Chinese duties for goods from the USA - 125%.

Moscow’s Taganskaya Station in 1950. A sculpture featuring Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, which was installed at Taganskaya Station on the Moscow metro shortly after World War II and destroyed in the 1960s, is to be recreated, the capital’s Transport Department announced on Saturday. Work on the bas-relief sculpture, named The People’s Gratitude to the Commander-in-Chief, commemorating the victory over fascism in World War II, is planned for “the near future”, according to the statement.

Photo: Ludovic Marin / Pool / EPA-EFE In social networks, video with the leaders of France, Great Britain and Germany Emmanuel Macron, Kirmer and Friedrich Mertz, shot by the Associated Press on a train to Kyiv. On a record that extends in poor quality, they noticed a “bundle with drugs” and a “spoon for cocaine”. Users of social networks noted that shortly after the appearance of journalists in the car, Macron is hiding a certain bundle, and Mertz - an oblong object.

Putin offers negotiations “without conditions”, Trump supports him. Kyiv and allies insist: first - cease fire Anti -war poster in the colors of the Ukrainian flag with the inscription “Stop the war”, March 27, 2022. Photo: David Gannon / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On the evening of May 10, after the celebration of Victory Day and before the end of the “three-day truce”, Vladimir Putin suddenly called a night press conference in the Kremlin.

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, UK PM Keir Starmer, and Poland’s PM Donald Tusk attend a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, 10 May 2025.

Titanium beams of the carts of the chassis of a large-tonnage aircraft, photo: VSMPO-Avism / VK Boeing and Rolls-Royce hired lobbyists in the US Congress in order to influence the process of imposing sanctions against Russia. Information about this “New Gazeta Europe” found in the reports on lobbying activities that are published on the website of the House of Representatives of the United States.