Virginia Pietromarchi

Krem­lin says wound­ed sol­diers were be­ing treat­ed in hos­pi­tals in Donet­sk as fears grow for those sent to prison camps.

News from May 15: Fin­land, Swe­den an­nounce de­ci­sion to ap­ply for NATO mem­ber­ship, set­ting aside decades of neu­tral­i­ty.

Trapped in a le­gal lim­bo, thou­sands of third-na­tion stu­dents risk see­ing their years-long ed­u­ca­tion van­ish­ing into air.

Ukraine news from May 12: UN votes to launch in­ves­ti­ga­tion into al­le­ga­tions of abus­es by Russ­ian troops in Ukraine.

Ukraine news from May 8: Pres­i­dent Ze­len­skyy said a Russ­ian bomb killed some 60 peo­ple who were hid­ing in a school.

Post­pone­ment comes af­ter Qatar called for more time for rebel groups and gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials to reach a ‘peace deal’.

Ukraine news from April 30: Russ­ian of­fi­cial says armed con­flict be­tween nu­clear pow­ers should be pre­vent­ed.

The may­or of Mar­i­upol says those hid­ing at the steel plant are run­ning out of food, wa­ter and med­i­cine.

Pre-talks in Doha are mov­ing slow­ly, risk­ing the in­clu­sion of rebel groups in a na­tion­al di­a­logue set for May 10.

The Spe­cial Crim­i­nal Court’s first tri­al could ad­dress a gap in ac­count­abil­i­ty that has spurred decades of con­flict.