The Croatian parliament voted on June 28 to recognize as genocide the Holodomor the starvation of millions in Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Switzerland has expanded financial and travel sanctions against Russian entities and persons in step with the most recent sanctions imposed by the European Union on Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine.
The number of victims of Russia's missile attack on Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, has grown to eleven, Kramatorsk Mayor Oleksandr Honcharenko said on Facebook.
Kazakhstan has detained a Russian IT expert at the request of the United States for cybercrimes, setting up another showdown between Washington and Moscow over extradition.