A Russian courtroom issued its harshest penalty but for an opponent of the Ukraine conflict, sentencing Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in jail Monday on prices of treason. Kara-Murza, a longtime opposition politician and Washington Put up Opinions contributor, known as the closed trial “unfounded, unlawful and politically motivated.”
U.S. Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland met with Ukrainian Prosecutor Basic Andriy Kostin in Washington on Monday, and supplied extra sources to investigations into potential conflict crimes in Ukraine and efforts to carry perpetrators accountable. Garland stated he would pledge a prosecutor, to be based mostly in The Hague, and a authorized adviser, to be based mostly on the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, to work on conflict crimes investigations.
Right here’s the most recent on the Ukraine conflict and its ripple results throughout the globe.
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The ‘outdated Europe’ vs. ‘new Europe’ paradigm is again: Twenty years after the Iraq Conflict dropped at U.S. minds a juxtaposition between an “Previous Europe” — led by France and Germany — and a youthful and extra unabashedly pro-American “New Europe,” that rubric is again. The rationale: the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Leaders of governments in Poland and the Baltic states have been essentially the most unflinching of their assist of Kyiv and suspicious of any diplomatic overtures made to Putin, writes Ishaan Tharoor. In the meantime, French President Emmanuel Macron has been the goal of a lot Western dismay for his failed makes an attempt at outreach to Putin earlier than final 12 months’s invasion.
Robyn Dixon contributed to this report.