He was declared persona non grata and taken from Latvia to Estonia Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe In Riga, Latvian immigration officers detained Korean scholar Andrei Lankov during his lecture on North Korea. This was reported by the correspondent of “New Europe”.

"New Europe" publishes a photo gallery Rally dedicated to the anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Riga, Latvia, February 24. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / Novaya Gazeta Europe Today, February 24, 2026, is exactly four years since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Last weekend and on the day of the anniversary, people around the world took to squares and city streets to express solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Beams of light illuminate the sky over the graves of fallen Ukrainian soldiers during a candlelight vigil at Lychakiv Military Cemetery in Lviv, western Ukraine, 23 February 2026. Photo: EPA / Mykola Tys The Russian military has captured the smallest amount of Ukrainian territory in the past week than it has in any weeklong period for almost a year, Russian independent media outlet Agentstvo reported on Tuesday.

The Court of Appeal, Saratov, Russia, 24 February 2026. Photo: Court of Appeal The mother of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been denied a compensation payment for his death in prison in an appeal against an earlier ruling, Russian independent online media outlet RusNews reported on Tuesday.

The Kurchatovsky District Court of Chelyabinsk sentenced 23-year-old transgender girl Yulia (name changed) to four years in a general regime colony. The case against the girl was opened back in 2021 for the publication of poems, in which the investigation saw calls for suicide and the sale of intimate photographs, human rights activist Vladimir, who is closely familiar with Yulia’s case, told Novaya-Europe. In 2021, Yulia was given five years of probation and four years of probation.

Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe A drone festival was held at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow on February 24, on the fourth anniversary of the war in Ukraine. As New Europe found out, military personnel came to the event at the university. They communicate with students and invite them to go to war in Ukraine by joining the unmanned forces.

Photo: Alexander Kazakov / EPA Russian intelligence services are acquiring real estate near military and civilian strategic sites in Western European countries and turning it into a network of “Trojan horses” intended for carrying out sabotage campaigns. The Telegraph writes about this with reference to representatives of European intelligence.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky makes his address to the nation on the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion, 24 February 2026. Screenshot: YouTube Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky showed the world the bunker from which he has, at times, managed the country’s defence and negotiated with world leaders, as he addressed the nation on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Tuesday.

The war through the eyes of a 55-year-old volunteer and a 19-year-old contract soldier from the same brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Material from hromadske publication Yaroslav Kravchuk and Dmitry Kovalchuk. Collage: hromadske EDITOR'S NOTE The material was published in hromadske. With the permission of our colleagues, we publish its Russian version in its entirety, with minor editing. The material was released with the support of Media Network.

Police at the scene of the explosion outside Moscow’s Savyolovsky Railway Station, 24 February 2026. Photo: Pavel Seleznev / TASS An apparent suicide bomber detonated an explosive device next to a traffic police vehicle outside Moscow’s Savyolovsky Railway Station at around midnight on Tuesday, killing a police officer as well as himself, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.

Zelensky addressed Ukrainians on the fourth anniversary of the great war and showed a bunker in Kyiv Vladimir Zelensky. Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, Vladimir Zelensky addressed Ukrainians and Ukrainian women. The President of Ukraine for the first time showed the premises of the bunker on Bankova Street in Kyiv. From this office, at the beginning of the war, he managed the defense and negotiated with world leaders.

Pavel Durov. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Scanpix / LETA The Russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov for “facilitating terrorist activity” amid the Kremlin’s continued crackdown on foreign-owned messaging services, Russian state-affiliated news outlets reported on Monday.

Putin’s misjudged effort to subjugate Ukraine has only helped cement its national identity, and it won’t ever stop fighting Kyiv’s iconic Motherland Monument stripped of its Soviet symbols in preparation for the installation of the Ukrainian coat of arms, 5 August 2023.

Photo: IC of Russia In Moscow, a man activated an explosive device near a traffic police car at the Savelovsky railway station. He and one of the police officers died, the Investigative Committee reported . The explosion occurred around midnight. According to the investigation, the man approached the car of police officers on duty at the station and activated an explosive device. The attacker himself, as well as senior police lieutenant Denis Bratushchenko, died.

20 films and books about the invasion of Ukraine that will help you understand the catastrophe that happened after February 24 A resident of Kharkov after a missile attack on the city, October 6, 2023. Photo: Yakiv Lyashenko/EPA Four years of destructive war are reflected not only in news reports, but also on the pages of books and on big screens.