COMMUNISTS have called for the redoubling of international solidarity efforts to free two young Ukrainian communists jailed by Kiev authorities in March.
Mikhail and Aleksander Kononovich were hauled into custody by security forces soon after the Russian intervention in Ukraine on February 24.
Fears were raised that the pair — both prominent members of the Communist Party of Ukraine’s youth wing — could be executed.
As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict
As Moscow celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Nazi defeat without Western allies in attendance, the EU even sanctions nations choosing to attend, revealing how completely the USSR's sacrifice of 27 million lives has been erased, argues KATE CLARK



