Sarah Rainsford

Calin Georgescu, the fringe nationalist politician leading the presidential race in Romania, has told the BBC that he would end all support for Ukraine if elected. He is facing a second-round run-off in the elections on Sunday, where he will […]

Authorities in Romania have revealed details of what appears to be a major attempt to interfere in the country’s presidential elections using the social media platform TikTok, and with a series of cyber-attacks. Romania’s domestic intelligence service says there are

Russia’s exiled opposition has marched through central Berlin in protest against President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. Several thousand supporters joined the march led by Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in February

@Tsihanouskaya “I cannot believe it!” wrote Maria Kolesnikova’s sister on X After more than 600 days of denied visits, calls and correspondence, the jailed Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has been allowed to see her father in prison. A photo,

Polls have closed in Moldova, where people have been voting in the country’s presidential election and in a referendum on whether to enshrine the goal of joining the European Union in the constitution. Voter turnout stood at more than 51%

Getty Images Ilan Shor – pictured here while running for election in 2019 – fled the country before being sentenced in absentia for money laundering and embezzlement The sniffer dogs at Chisinau Airport have been working extra hard in recent

BBC/James Cheyne The Witches of Bucha are part of a volunteer defence unit made up almost entirely of women It’s when dark falls over Bucha that the witches come out, because that’s when the Russian attack drones start swarming. The

BBC Viktoriia Roshchyna was detained last year while reporting in Russian-occupied Ukraine Viktoriia Roshchyna disappeared in August 2023 in a part of Ukraine now occupied by Russian forces. It took nine months for Russian authorities to confirmed the journalist had

DSNS rescue service The overnight attack was the fourth on the Odesa region in five days Four people have been killed in a Russian strike close to Ukraine’s port city of Odesa, in the fourth such attack on the Black

Reuters Russian missiles have targeted Ukraine’s Odesa region all week Russian missiles have hit a civilian container ship at a port in Ukraine’s Odesa region, killing eight people, according to local officials. “This is the third attack on a civilian