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Overnight Russian Strikes Hit Multiple Ukrainian Cities: Fires, Casualties and One Dead

Russian forces launched a wave of overnight strikes across Ukraine on the night of 22–23 September, hitting Kyiv, Zapo...

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Russian strikes in Sumy and Kherson kill six civilians; Dnipro shopping centre hit, regional officials say

Regional Ukrainian officials reported that Russian strikes across several regions on September 19 killed six civilians a...

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Klitschko: Debris from Russian Drone Sparks Fire in Kyiv Outbuilding

Debris from a Russian strike drone fell on a private property in Kyiv’s Dnipro district, igniting a domestic outbuildi...

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Historian Iva Vukushiq: Specialist Chambers' sentences for former KLA leaders are comparatively high

Iva Vukushiq, a historian at Utrecht University and expert on trials arising from the wars in the former Yugoslavia, tol...

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Hague-based courts hand down 128 years for Albanians, 107 years for Serbs over Kosovo war crimes

International and hybrid courts seated in The Hague have issued a combined 128 years of prison sentences against ethnic...

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Defence Teams to Appeal Hague Convictions of Four Former KLA Leaders; Specialist Chambers’ Appeal Process Explained

Defense lawyers for four former Kosovo Liberation Army commanders have said they will appeal convictions issued by the S...

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Council of Europe Commissioner Says Praising Ratko Mladić Is a Crime Under Bosnian Law

Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, has condemned public praise of Ratko Mladić...

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Montenegro’s President: Death of Ratko Mladić Must Not Be Used to Relativize War Crimes

Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović said on August 28 that expressions of sympathy toward the family of the late Hagu...

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Ratko Mladić, Convicted Over Srebrenica Genocide and Other War Crimes, Dies in The Hague

Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide in Srebrenica and multiple other crimes during the 1992–...

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Kosovo Special Prosecution Indicts 20, Including Millan Radoiçiq, Over Gjakova War Crimes

Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has filed an indictment charging 20 people — among them Millan Radoiçiq — with war c...

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Russian Strike Sets Fire to RNK‑Ranok Warehouses in Kharkiv, Destroying School Textbooks; One Person Missing

On 1 August, warehouses of the Ukrainian publishing corporation RNK‑Ranok in Kharkiv were hit in an attack that ignite...

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Two more Kherson residents wounded in Russian strikes die in hospital, regional head says

Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin announced on July 28 that two people injured in earlier Russian attacks hav...

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Kosovo court sentences Ekrem Bajroviq to 12 years in prison in retrial for 1999 war crimes

A court in Pristina has sentenced Ekrem Bajroviq to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty in a retrial for crimes...

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Major Russian Strike on Kyiv Kills Nearly 30; U.S. and European Officials Renew Calls for Tougher Measures

A broad Russian attack on Kyiv on July 2 killed at least 27 people and inflicted heavy damage on civilian infrastructure...

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Head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA reports one killed and five wounded after Russian strike on Kryvyi Rih district

Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said a Russian strike on the Sofiivska co...

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Zelensky: Emergency rescue operations continue in Kyiv after strikes; 10 people remain unreachable

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 3 that emergency rescuers were working at three strike sites in Kyiv after Rus...

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Missile strike on Kryvyi Rih kills at least three, wounds 23, local authorities say

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Ukraine's Air Force: Night attack by Russia involved two Iskander-M missiles and 132 strike drones; 114 drones shot down or suppressed

Ukrainian military officials said Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and around 132 strike unmann...

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Russian strike damages light‑industry plant in Dnipro; seven people injured, officials say

Russian forces struck a light‑industry enterprise in Dnipro on the morning of 14 June, damaging buildings and producti...

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UN Residual Mechanism Prosecutor: Over 2,000 Suspects from Former Yugoslavia Still Await National War Crimes Investigations

Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the United Nations’ residual court, told the UN Security Council that more than 2...