Interrogations, Electric Shocks, Detention—This Is What Russian Occupation of Ukraine Looks Like
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When the Soviet Union still existed, Anatolii Harahatii made his career as a photographer in the small village of Savintsi in northeastern Ukraine. Snapshots of him as a younger, sharply dressed man appear on many surfaces in the cozy, one-story…
UN Investigators Just Issued Their First Report on Russian War Crimes in Ukraine. It Is Horrific.
Investigators work to exhume bodies from a mass burial site in Ukraine.Pavel Nemecek/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, investigators working for the United Nations delivered a sobering statement to the UN Human Rights Council detailing evidence of Russian war crimes committed as…
Antony Blinken Tried to Convince China to Reject Russia. It Went About as Well as You’d Expect.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Indonesia in July 2022.Stefani Reynolds/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.As Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Chinese counterpart for a rare, bilateral chat on Saturday,…
America’s Top Anti-War Think Tank Is Fracturing Over Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers move a US-supplied M777 howitzer in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on June 18, 2022.Efrem Lukatsky/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Two prominent figures have resigned in protest from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft—the only major think tank to…
An Inside View of Wartime Ukraine
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.I’m standing on a dusty path flanked by a medic, a volunteer fighter, and another journalist. It’s early May and we are traversing through a recently liberated town on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest…
The Atrocities I Saw Outside Kyiv Hint at Monstrous Discoveries Yet to Be Made
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Bucha was known as Ukraine’s Switzerland. Now it is synonymous with unimaginable horror. I first traveled to the town five years ago to film a documentary about the country’s struggle to build a democracy enshrined in human…