At least three feminist activists have been detained for vandalising a monument outside the United Nations building in Geneva to protest Russia’s war against Ukraine and what they see as the UN's failure to stop the conflict.

Between 24 February 2022 and the end of October 2024, Ukraine has retrieved the bodies of 184 Ukrainians who died in Russian captivity, including 169 military and 15 civilians. Source: Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR),

Topless members of the Ukrainian feminist protest group Femen took chainsaws to a giant wooden sculpture outside the United Nations in Geneva on Friday, prompting police to intervene, witnesses said.

Russian shelling of Donetsk region in southeastern Ukraine killed six civilains and injured five others. Russian troops executed four Ukrainian prisoners of war in the region’s frontline Volnovakha district on Dec.

The Austrian charity organization Caritas has called on citizens and the federal government in Austria to continue assisting the Ukrainian people, especially through the most challenging winter since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Yevhen Tsymbaliuk, who until 2023 held the post of Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the international organizations in Vienna, has been appointed Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva.

The issue of Russia’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Ukraine was put firmly on the international agenda in May 2024, when the US imposed new sanctions on Russia, accusing it of resorting to the use of tear gas and chloropicrin, an odourless toxic irritant, on the battlefield in Ukraine.

GENEVA -- At least three feminist activists were detained on Friday after vandalizing a monument outside the United Nations complex in Geneva to protest Russia's war against Ukraine and what they ...

The artwork symbolizes the dismemberment caused by land mines and is a call to ban the devastating weapons, which have also been used in the war in Ukraine. The two women wore bands in the blue ...

Wednesday's talks took place with Ukraine on the defensive on the battlefield and uncertainty hanging over future US support.

The bodies of 403 soldiers were recovered from Donetsk Oblast, while 57 and 12 bodies were brought back from Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk oblasts. Another 31 bodies were repatriated from morgues in Russia.

Each year in December, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator makes a pilgrimage to Geneva, to unveil the UN’s humanitarian appeal for the upcoming year.