The memory of Soviet-era famines, mass killings and other traumas makes Ukraine determined not to return to Russian rule ...

Australian soldier Oscar Jenkins is alive in Russian captivity following reports that he was captured and executed while fighting ... by Russian soldiers late last year. Senator Wong has called ...

Mr Jenkins, a 32-year-old teacher, was serving in Ukraine’s armed forces when he was captured by Russian forces last year ... “In the case that he was executed, they’d probably like to ...

Nicholas’s character was his fate, argues Hasegawa, and it was the fundamental absence of a higher purpose at its heart, ...

The Russian marauder has become an ostensible peace-maker in a month.

The mission in Ukraine said it had received reports of 79 executions in 24 separate incidents since the end of August last ... the execution of a wounded and incapacitated Russian soldier by ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, author of a new account of the last Russian emperor ... losses on the battlefield. Tsar Nicholas II and his family, who were executed in 1918.Credit: Alamy/File Hasegawa ...

Public figures in the Russian Federation have explicitly called for inhumane treatment, and even execution ... In October last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law measures ...