
Armenia
Russia charges Armenian-Ukrainian man over 2023 Moscow assassination of ex–Ukrainian MP
Illia Kyva, a former Ukrainian MP who fled to Russia before the full-scale war in 2022, was assassinated in Moscow in 2023.
Illia Kyva, a former Ukrainian MP who fled to Russia before the full-scale war in 2022, was assassinated in Moscow in 2023.
Georgian Dream officials have been escalating their rhetoric against Ukraine in recent days.
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said that European ambassadors must stop acting like ‘ambassadors of hate’.
Pro-Russian propagandists have echoed the allegations in recent days.
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) said investigators were ‘considering’ connections between the arrests and the upcoming municipal elections.
While Armenian authorities are yet to comment on the case, human rights defenders call it a ‘dangerous precedent’.
Russia’s FSB claimed the individual had ‘proactively joined a Ukrainian terrorist organisation’.