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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.

News

UN records 32 summary executions by Russia of Ukrainian prisoners of war since December

28.03.2024
As well as evidence of Russians killing unarmed Ukrainian POWs, the UN monitors also found that virtually all Ukrainian POWs had been subjected to horrific levels of torture and ill-treatment

Real terrorists free to act while Russian FSB tortures political prisoners for 'good statistics'

27.03.2024
There may also be sinister reasons for Moscow’s failure to react to clear warnings of a terrorist threat, but the FSB’ have long been accustomed to fabricating terrorism, not fighting it

Russia’s fake ‘Donetsk republic’ moves to appropriate Ukrainians’ homes on occupied territory

27.03.2024
Having destroyed people’s homes, and driven many Ukrainians into effective exile, the Russian invaders are now stealing their property

Ukrainian POW sentenced to life for defending Mariupol in brutal Russian replay of fake occupation court ‘trial’

26.03.2024
Russia has plunged to a new low with its staged ‘appeal’ and life sentence against a Ukrainian prisoner of war seized while defending Mariupol

Crimean Solidarity activist and political prisoner in critical condition in Russian prison hospital

25.03.2024
Russia has already killed one of the 25 Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists arrested in its 2019 attack on the human rights movement, and it is now placing Tofik Abdulgaziev’s life in danger

Russian propaganda TV broadcast deepfake video to blame Ukraine for Moscow terrorist attack

25.03.2024
The suggestion from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence that the video was prepared in advance would raise many disturbing questions, as does the behaviour of the authorities in the light of the warnings received

9.5-year sentence minus 1 month for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine and Russia an illegal invader

22.03.2024
Russia’s first political persecution of 65-year-old Oleh Prykhodko was openly fabricated, and the later charges are particularly ominous as the same mechanism could be used to extend the sentences of other Ukrainian political prisoners

Russia sentences poet Aleksandr Byvshev to 7 years for writing of its war crimes in Ukraine

22.03.2024
The 51-year-old poet was charged with ‘fakes’ about Russia’s armed forces and ‘calls to terrorism’ over a poem and post in which he spelled out Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

Russia tortures more Ukrainian POWs and sentences them en masse to 27 years for defending Ukraine

21.03.2024
Russia has staged another fake ‘trial’ on occupied territory and has already sentenced Ukrainian prisoners of war to hundreds of years’ imprisonment, accusing them of the war crimes that Russian armed forces are committing

Renowned Crimean Solidarity journalist convicted of 'abusing' freedom of mass information in Russian-occupied Crimea

21.03.2024
In an 8-minute ‘court hearing’ in Lutfiye Zudiyeva’s absence, the journalist and human rights defender was found ‘guilty’ of an absurd charge over a very old Facebook post

Publications

No more tolerance to Putin’s regime!

28.03.2024
An appeal from scholars of the world.

‘One brother perished, the second was barely saved’ — the story of a resident of Zahaltsi

28.03.2024
Svitlana Zamitailo lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The woman's family lost everything they had: their house and possessions. But the worst thing is that the war took the life of her brother, who was transporting people and humanitarian aid.

‘The Russians killed people with bestial cruelty’

26.03.2024
Red Cross volunteer Mykhailo Tulskyi was under occupation in Borodianka and saw with his own eyes the terrible crimes committed by the Russian military against civilians and military personnel. The man is now being treated for PTSD.

‘It was impossible to endure here,’ — a resident of Borodianka

13.03.2024
Hanna Shmorhun is a resident of the notorious house at 353 Central Street in Borodianka. She hid in a private home with her neighbors, but it was not safe there either. The Russians bombarded houses with tanks, shot people in the streets, and buried the dead in a ditch.

Absence of law and international control

06.03.2024
What happens to Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity.

‘When I was evacuated, I only had a pair of trousers, shoes, a jacket and my documents’

06.03.2024
Petro Neshchadym is a pensioner from Moshchun (a village in Kyiv Region). His house was destroyed. Petro hopes that the war will end and he will be healthy enough to build a new house.

Freedom to Oleg Orlov!

01.03.2024
Statement by the International MemorialAssociation

Russia-Ukraine war: what does filtration mean?

01.03.2024
Filtration is a violent, unregulated screening of the personal data of detained people, their social contacts, views and attitudes towards the occupying state, their safety for the authorities or services of the occupying state, as well as their willingness and consent to cooperate with the authorities or services of the occupying state.

What does a military chaplain do, and who needs him?

26.02.2024
And what do chebureks [deep-fried turnovers with a filling of ground or minced meat and onions] have to do with it? Lieutenant Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleh Sydorenko recalls the story from the service.

‘Almost my entire family perished’

24.02.2024
A resident of Borodianka, Tetiana Bukina, and her relatives were hiding in the basement from Russian bombings. On 1 March, the Russians dropped several air bombs on their house. Unfortunately, the panel ceilings could not hold up and buried the family.

‘The neighbor was still alive and called his granddaughter to get him out from under the rubble,’ — a resident of Borodianka

20.02.2024
During the bombing of Borodianka, Mykhailo Kokidko and his son received shell shock. The family barely had time to escape the destroyed burning house. After the evacuation, the man ended up under occupation in the neighboring village of Zahaltsi.

Nothing is sacred

16.02.2024
The Russian occupiers destroyed hundreds of religious buildings and kidnapped, tortured, killed, and wounded dozens of priests... This was discussed at a press conference on the Russian occupier’s war crimes against Ukrainian religious communities and clergy.