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Oct
21
2023
By The African Mirror
Russia charges Ukrainian war veteran mistakenly honoured by Canada with genocide

Russia charges Ukrainian war veteran mistakenly honoured by Canada with genocide

WORLD
RUSSIAN investigators charged 98-year-old Ukrainian war veteran Yaroslav Hunka, mistakenly honoured by Canada last month, with genocide for serving in a German Nazi division fighting the Soviet Union in World War Two. Moscow seized on the incident, for which Canada apologised, as further justification for a full-scale invasion that Russian President Vladimir Putin said was needed to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine and thwart the aggression of its Western allies. Russian state and military archives have "received documentary evidence of the places of deployment and the conduct of hostilities by the SS Galicia division, in which Hunka served", the federal Investigative…
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Jul
13
2023
By GUY FAULCONBRIDGE and FILIPP LEBEDEV
Exclusive: Russia is rotting in absurdity and repression, veteran rights campaigner says

Exclusive: Russia is rotting in absurdity and repression, veteran rights campaigner says

WORLD
RUSSIA is decaying in a potent brew of absurdity and repression that is comparable to the Leonid Brezhnev era of the Soviet Union, Oleg Orlov, one of Russia's most respected human rights campaigners, told Reuters. Orlov, 70, is on trial in Russia for articles he published last year which cast Russia as a "fascist" state seeking revenge for the perceived humiliations of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. He faces up to three years in prison. One of the leaders of the Memorial rights group, which won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 a year after…
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Dec
01
2021
By The African Mirror
Ukrainians near conflict zone try to guess Putin’s next move

Ukrainians near conflict zone try to guess Putin’s next move

WORLD
MARGARYTA CHORNOKONDRATENKO ANATOLIY Hrebeniuk was a child of the Soviet Union - he grew up after World War Two in a land where Russians and Ukrainians were united as neighbours within the bloc. Today he lives some 50 km (30 miles) from the front line of fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in a conflict that has simmered for seven years. If Kyiv's worst fears are realised, the region could soon be subsumed in a wider war between Russia and Ukraine. "We have a huge fear that Russia will come here again. We have a huge fear. It…
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