The resumption of conflict in Ukraine this year has presented more plot twists within the last six months than what is seen in a good novel or a Hollywood blockbuster.
Russian authorities said Sunday they had opened a murder investigation after the daughter of influential, ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue, and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, Alexander Dugin was killed by a car bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.
German intelligence says it has intercepted radio exchanges between Russian soldiers who discussed killing civilians outside Kyiv, potentially bolstering evidence that Kremlin forces carried out atrocities, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Thursday. German officials say the intercepts indicate that the murder of civilians in the town of Bucha near the…