Whether the Chinese leadership itself had any knowledge of Wagner’s interest this spring in satellite images of Russia’s own territory in the lead-up to the mutiny remains unclear.
While Pavel Gubarev asserts that Russians do not hate Ukrainians, he believes that Russia must achieve victory “at any cost” and is willing to “kill as many people as necessary.”
A former security services official is charged with helping to abduct three men in Minsk in 1999. He’s being tried in Switzerland under universal jurisdiction.
A court in Rome said it had decided to acquit a janitor accused of improperly touching a student in part because the episode lasted “a handful of seconds” and took place in a public area in front of other students.