Russia Ukraine war

Latest LGBT+ news coverage on the Russia Ukraine war and how the Russian invasion is impacting lesbian, gay, bi and trans people in Ukraine.

Women from Africa arrive at the Polish borde

Europe
Mar 03 2022

Queer Africans fleeing Ukraine face ‘grave danger’ even after reaching ‘so-called safe countries’

Zi Faámelu, a trans singer in Ukraine

Europe
Mar 02 2022

Ukrainian trans women ‘trapped in Kyiv’ as Russian forces advance on capital

The offices of LGBT Human Rights Nash Mir Center in Kyiv were ransacked by a group of armed men.

Europe
Mar 01 2022

Armed thugs ransack headquarters of Ukrainian LGBT+ group in ‘humiliating’ raid

Jamala singing on the Eurovision stage / Jamala with her two children

World
Mar 01 2022

Ukrainian Eurovision winner Jamala forced to flee country after ‘explosions near home’ in Kyiv

Activists hold placards and flags as they gather in Lafayette Square to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Washington, DC.

Europe
Mar 01 2022

Ukrainian queer teen explains why he won’t flee despite terrifying war: ‘I want to be free’

Viktor Pylypenko, an LGBT+ activist in Ukraine

Europe
Mar 01 2022

Russian soldiers captured after being found hiding in basement by Ukraine LGBT+ activists

Magomed Tushayev and Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, stand side by side

World
Feb 28 2022

Warlord who helped oversee Chechnya’s brutal ‘gay purge’ killed in Ukraine