A Ukrainian soldier returned home to defend his country when Russia invaded - and drowned trying to flee the war earlier this year wsj.com/world/europe/u…

Ukraine's National Police says it arrested officials from the territorial recruitment center in Ternopil Oblast who received bribes to help people avoid mobilization. They say it cost $5,000-15,000 to influence military medical commission members to disqualify individuals from

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The Wall Street Journal "There's one thing I would like to say. It was great to get on that bus today and see not just Americans and Germans but Russian political prisoners.” Evan on advocating for the hundreds of political prisoners left behind.

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“You cannot win the war with mere fairness. War is unfair per se.” Ukrainian businesses are lobbying for the chance to pay to exempt workers from military service.But it’s causing bitter debate over what is a fair and just conscription system. New story: on.ft.com/4fvmV10

SCOOP: Ukraine and Russia were set to send delegations to Doha this month to negotiate a partial ceasefire agreement, halting strikes on energy and power infrastructure but Moscow called it off after Kyiv's surprise cross-border offensive in Kursk 🧵

During the 6-year legal proceeding that led to Dutch cocaine kingpin Ridouan Taghi’s conviction, 3 people linked to the state’s star witness were shot dead: his brother, his lawyer & a crime journalist who had joined the witness’s legal team wsj.com/world/europe/e… by Sune Engel Rasmussen

A Ukrainian F-16 fighter jet was destroyed in a crash on Monday, according to a U.S. official, just weeks after the first of the American-made aircraft arrived in Ukraine wsj.com/world/ukrainia… by Lara Seligman

The Last Days of Pokrovsk: Ukrainians Dig Trenches and Say Goodbye to Their City as Russians Close In - by ⁦Matthew Luxmoore⁩ wsj.com/world/europe/t…

Two Ukrainian Pilots Lobbied for F-16s. They Won’t Get to See If the Jets Help Fend Off Russia. Our story about Juice & Moonfish w/ Lara Seligman + Jane Lytvynenko wsj.com/world/europe/u…

Here is an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/3Xg3pxg

Spent a couple of months working on this longread about Pablo González / Pavel Rubtsov, the Spanish journalist accused of being a GRU spy. Hopefully it goes some way to answering a few of the questions around Pablo. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

From global jihad to local regime: we track the unlikely transformation of Jawlani, a former prisoner of an American camp in Iraq who rode triumphantly into Syria’s second largest city of Aleppo last week. With Isabel Coles wsj.com/world/middle-e…

In July 2022, Russia blew up the barracks of the Olenivka prison camp in occupied Donetsk, murdering more than 50 Ukrainian POWs and then blaming it on a Ukrainian missile strike. Today, the director of the Olenivka camp at the time, Sergey Evsukov, was killed in a car bombing in

Here is an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal trib.al/KzM554B

Inside Assad’s Ransacked Palace: Anxiety Pills, Graffiti and Shredded Posters wsj.com/world/middle-e… by Jared Malsin

Maksym Shaulskyi was only 12 years old when a Russian missile strike on his hometown of Kryvyi Rih took his life on Sept. 21. His biggest dream was to see his older brother Mykyta, who has been in Russian captivity since 2022. kyivindependent.com/one-killed-one…

"Do what is necessary:" Syrian military intelligence files tell the story of the collapse of the Assad regime as seen by its most loyal and brutal agents who documented the fall right up until the last minute: wsj.com/world/middle-e…

How a Teenage Romance Was Cut Short by a Russian Missile wsj.com/world/russia-m… #Ukraine