A Russian court issued its harshest penalty yet for an opponent of the Ukraine war, sentencing Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison Monday on charges of treason. Kara-Murza, a longtime opposition politician and Washington Post Opinions contributor, called the closed trial “unfounded, illegal and politically motivated.”
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland met with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin in Washington on Monday, and offered additional resources to investigations into potential war crimes in Ukraine and efforts to hold perpetrators accountable. Garland said he would pledge a prosecutor, to be based in The Hague, and a legal adviser, to be based at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, to work on war crimes investigations.
Here’s the latest on the Ukraine war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Analysis from our correspondents
The ‘old Europe’ vs. ‘new Europe’ paradigm is back: Two decades after the Iraq War brought to U.S. minds a juxtaposition between an “Old Europe” — led by France and Germany — and a younger and more unabashedly pro-American “New Europe,” that rubric is back. The reason: the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Leaders of governments in Poland and the Baltic states have been the most unflinching in their support of Kyiv and suspicious of any diplomatic overtures made to Putin, writes Ishaan Tharoor. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron has been the target of much Western dismay for his failed attempts at outreach to Putin before last year’s invasion.
Robyn Dixon contributed to this report.