War & Peace

"It's not just going to be the next few days—but the next few weeks and few months could even get more complicated than it is now," David Beasley lamented.

More than 150 Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

"The authorities are deeply mistaken if they believe that by closing down our office in Moscow they will stop our work documenting and exposing human rights violations," said Amnesty secretary-general Agnès Callamard.

"Thousands of people were at the station during the missile strike, as residents of Donetsk region are being evacuated to safer regions of Ukraine," said the regional governor.

"All the information in the videos that suggests abuse, and maybe worse, of POWs needs to be subject to an effective investigation."

Attacks involving Smerch rockets and cluster bombs have targeted civilian areas including schools and residential buildings, the rights group said.

"American complicity in this humanitarian disaster has persisted for too long," said a group of congressional lawmakers, "and we will not allow it to continue."

"Instead of distancing himself from the nuclear coercion and brinkmanship of thugs like Putin and Trump, Biden is following their lead," warned one disarmament advocate.

"There cannot and never will be an explanation for this inhuman cruelty."

"What's happening is a disgrace," says 76-year-old Elena Osipova, a St. Petersburg artist who has been arrested for protesting Putin's invasion of Ukraine.