How Russia Uses Show Trials to Punish Putin’s Enemies Moscow may label the Azov fighters who defended the Mariupol steel plant as terrorists — raising the prospect of a high-profile trial. The Kremlin has a long tradition of using the courts for political goals.
In Ukraine, Solidarity and Defiance Among Those Still in Kyiv About two million people have stayed in Kyiv, a population galvanized by a newfound unity and its refusal to be cowed by Russian invaders.