Russian forces have been systematically imprisoning, torturing, and killing civilians in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region ever since they occupied it in March 2022, turning police stations into torture centers and using drones to hunt people down and kill them, The Kyiv Independent claims.
Belarussian Alexander Zaitsev, nicknamed President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s “money bag,” appears to have shipped luxury goods to Russia despite sanctions imposed by the EU in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a new investigation by The Buro, an OCCRP partner organization.