War
The age of “victims of sexual and gendered-based violence" in Ukraine by Russian forces "ranged from 4 to 82 years," an independent commission has found.
The tide of international opinion appears to have decisively shifted against Russia, as a number of non-aligned countries joined the United States and its allies in condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine and its threats to the principles of the international rules-based order.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a rare foray outside Ukraine's capital and highlighted Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Already accused of war crimes, Russia’s acts raise the question of whether it has crossed the line into genocide, even as Capitol Hill is reluctant to use the word.
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HuffPost spoke to mothers in Ukraine, including at a Lviv maternity ward, about giving birth during wartime.
According to an AP investigation, 600 people inside and outside the building died. That's almost double the death toll cited so far and many survivors put the number even higher.
There is a grim historical precedent for what Russian forces are doing, Harvard’s Dara Kay Cohen tells HuffPost.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova is at the frontline of a legal battle to hold Russia accountable for atrocities committed in her country.
Seth Herald documents citizens in Ukraine doing their best to help while surrounded by death and destruction.
The Russian leader also insisted the campaign was going as planned.