Anton Kokaia

Dec 2, 2024 | rferl.org | Anton Kokaia

Students led a protest through Tbilisi on December 2, the fifth consecutive day of anti-government demonstrations. Protesters criticize government plans to suspend Georgia's EU accession talks through 2028 and demand new parliamentary elections after an October vote they say was rigged. Police have arrested hundreds of people over several nights of unrest. Share‘Here For My Future’: Georgian Students Protest EU Delay

Dec 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Anton Kokaia

14 hours agoTbilisi, Georgia - December 01, 2024 Amid escalating tensions in Tbilisi, protesters clashed with government-controlled special forces, responding to the use of water cannons and tear gas by launching pyrotechnics. The demonstrations have intensified, with protesters resisting dispersal efforts by barricading streets and confronting security forces.

Oct 31, 2024 | rferl.org | Anton Kokaia

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has reiterated his call on Ukraine's allies to allow Ukraine to use advanced Western weapons to hit deeper inside Russia in the aftermath of a Russian strike on Kharkiv that left at least two people dead, including an 11-year-old boy, and at least 34 wounded. Russian forces reportedly used an FAB-500 guided aerial bomb to strike the nine-story apartment building in Ukraine's second-largest city.

Oct 30, 2024 | rferl.org | Anton Kokaia

Russian guided bombs targeted a multistory residential building in Kharkiv late on October 30, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. RFE/RL's Ukraine Live Briefing gives you the latest developments on Russia's invasion, Western military aid, the plight of civilians, and territorial control maps. For all of RFE/RL's coverage of the war, click here. "Preliminarily, we have information about a guided aerial bomb hitting a high-rise building. There are casualties," he said on Telegram.

Oct 30, 2024 | rferl.org | Anton Kokaia

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has called the deployment of North Korean troops by Russia to aid its war against Ukraine a "dangerous and destabilizing escalation" and said it could lengthen the conflict. Speaking during a news conference at the Pentagon alongside his South Korean counterpart on October 30, Austin said some 10,000 North Korean forces were already deployed to eastern Russia.