Russia’s political elite seeks to restore the Soviet Union’s influence in Eastern Europe and divide the EU, but sees no way to achieve these goals without continuing the war against Ukraine.

Canada will continue to pressure Russia in order to force it to stop the war against Ukraine.

In Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region, a former head of a regional medical and social expert commission (MSEC) from the Donetsk region has been sentenced to five years in prison for demanding a $5,000 bribe in exchange for granting disability status.

In the first quarter of this year, 566 civilians were killed, and 2,731 were injured as a result of Russian attacks on Ukraine. This is 20% more than in the first quarter of last year.

In Kherson, Russian troops attacked vehicles belonging to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs with a drone.

The Russkaya Obshina group stages raids to look for activities contravening\n"traditional Russian values".

More than 40 participating states of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe have invoked the Moscow Mechanism to investigate Russia’s indoctrination and militarization of Ukrainian children.

Since the beginning of 2026, more than 120 criminal proceedings have been launched in the Dnipropetrovsk region in the budgetary sphere.

A total of 113,500 civilians remain in the Kramatorsk and Sloviansk communities of the Donetsk region, which are under daily shelling.

More than 200 combat engagements took place along the frontline as of 22:00 on Thursday, with Russian forces losing nearly 100 troops while attempting to break through Ukrainian defenses in the Pokrovsk sector.