Ukrainian law enforcement sources told RFE RL that the Ukrainian security service liquidated a former Ukrainian lawmaker on December . Illya Kyva was shot dead in a village near Moscow. An outspoken critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, he was convicted in absentia in November of...

   For at least months, Ukraine has been waging a not so secret drone and sabotage campaign on Russian soil, targeting everything from border town pipelines to the Kremlin itself. Then there’s a shadowy assassination campaign that has targeted former Ukrainian lawmakers and nationalist Russians,...

   A former Ukrainian lawmaker who was gunned down near Moscow took safety precautions that were likely aided by Russian authorities as he took an active part in pushing Russian propaganda, an official from Ukraine’s military intelligence has said.

   Russia’s Federal Security Service FSB said on December it detained a Belarusian national with permanent residence in Lithuania on suspicion of carrying out explosions on two trains on the Baikal Amur Main Line last week.

   Japan has pledged billion in additional aid to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced on December .

   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has thanked Japan for a pledge of an additional billion in aid, saying the funds will give significant support to the country just hours after the U.S. Senate blocked a White House request that would have earmarked around billion for Kyiv.

   The leaders of the Group of Seven countries have agreed to restrict imports of Russian diamonds in another tightening of sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

   RFE RL’s Ukraine Live Briefing gives you the latest developments on Russia’s ongoing invasion, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. The Live Briefing presents the latest developments and analysis, updated throughout the day.

   Two Ukrainians who collaborated with Russian authorities have been killed one in a shooting in a village southwest of Moscow and the other in a car bombing in the Russian occupied part of Ukraine’s Luhansk region.

   As Ukraine marked Armed Forces Day on December, it highlighted the grim reality of the ongoing war with Russia. Although Ukraine does not officially publish the number of its fallen soldiers, it is thought to be in the tens of thousands since Russia invaded Ukraine in February . For many...

   Reuters cited police officials in Nepal on December as saying that they detained people on suspicion of sending Nepalese citizens to Russia, where they were recruited to Russian armed forces involved in Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

   Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will head to Beijing for a December summit amid deepening trade disputes and rising EU concerns over China helping Russia skirt sanctions to help its war in Ukraine.

   Well known Ukrainian human rights defender Maksym Butkevych, sentenced by a Moscow installed court in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region to years in prison in March, has been located in the Russian occupied region after going missing for more than three months.

   A Moscow military court has sentenced two Russian officers Colonel Anatoly Bondarev and Major Dmitry Dmitrakov to four years in prison for failing to repulse a surprise attack by Ukrainian forces on Russian territory.

   The U.S. Senate on December blocked a White House request for billion in emergency aid primarily for Ukraine and Israel as Republicans objected to the bill’s lack of immigration reforms.

   The United States on December imposed fresh sanctions targeting a defense procurement network that the U.S. Treasury Department said is led by a Belgium based businessman and involves numerous Cyprus based companies as well as businesses in Sweden, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands.

   Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius talks to RFE RL’s Georgian Service about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, how next year’s U.S. election could affect international support for Kyiv, and why the world needs police, but not a policeman.

   Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has called on U.S. lawmakers to materially support the Belarusian democracy movement abroad, tighten sanctions on authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and approve aid to Ukraine.

   The United States on December imposed fresh sanctions targeting several entities and individuals that the U.S. Treasury Department says are revenue generators for the regime of Belarusian authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

   The Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law KIBHR said on December that a court in the western city of Atyrau had ruled to shut down the local Glory to Ukraine charity that provided humanitarian and financial assistance to victims of Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.