politics
January 28, 2026
Russia suggests opening humanitarian border crossing with Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine should open a border crossing to allow families to reunite, human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova has said
TL;DR
- Russia's human rights commissioner, Tatyana Moskalkova, suggests reopening a border crossing with Ukraine.
- The purpose would be to allow people to return home and families to reunite.
- Kiev closed all border crossings with Russia and Belarus in 2022.
- Moskalkova stated that over 50 families were reunited in the past year by her office.
- She mentioned talks with Kiev about returning Russian citizens taken by Ukrainian forces from Kursk Region.
- At least 12 Russian citizens in Ukraine's Sumy Region are described as "hostages" unable to leave.
- Ukrainian forces captured Russians during an incursion into Russia's Kursk Region in 2024, which was repulsed by April of the following year.
- Russian officials have received allegations of war crimes by Ukrainian forces during their occupation of parts of Kursk Region.
- Ukrainian citizens rescued by the Russian military are in temporary accommodation and free to move, according to Moskalkova.