Maksym Butkevytch, a well-known Ukrainian journalist, human rights defender and pacifist, is being held as a prisoner of war, after the capture of his Ukrainian army platoon by Russian occupying forces in June. Isabelle Merminod and Tim Baster report.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is generating debate among southern Europe's pacifist and progressive forces, who turned out for a massive anti-war protest in Rome last month, reports Dick Nichols.
Nataliya Levytska is deputy chairperson of the Independent Mineworkers Union of Ukraine. She is in Australia for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) World Congress, where she spoke to Chloe DS about the situation of Ukrainian trade unions.