The victim’s daughter believes that the sentence against Yury Rossoshansky was just, but that others were also involved in her savage murder, including a high-ranking police official

A Russian court is about to begin the ‘trial’ of Nabi Rakhimov, 13 months after the Uzbek refugee was killed by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembitska interviews Ukrainians, who had to flee the war, to preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a Kharkiv woman who was forced to flee shelling and bombing with a baby in her arms and a five-year-old daughter.

We call on the int. community & anyone who can influence and urge the aggressor state to provide the civilians with the possibility to evacuate to safer locations and to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and new human casualties in this war unleashed by Russia.

Update on the fire at the Zaporizhya Nuclear Power Plant caused by Russian shelling

If the bombing of Ukrainian cities by Russian invading forces is unprecedented, not so Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which began eight years ago

There were no grounds for Nabi Rakhimov to have shown any resistance to the FSB who turned up in occupied Crimea, and the refusal to hand over his body confirms that Russia needs to conceal how he died

Sokhiba Burkhanova has been imprisoned since the day after her refugee husband was killed by FSB officers in occupied Crimea

Yury Spasskykh has been remanded in custody in Ukraine and is facing trial on charges linked with the killing of Maidan protesters iHe fled the country in the Spring of 2014, only to end up imprisoned in Russia on bizarre charges.

A Kyiv court has been passed the indictment against former Omega special force officer Volodymyr Kosenko on charges of killing and attempting to kill Maidan activists on 20 February 2014

One of the five cloned ‘trials’ with which Russia is trying to deflect attention from its attack on Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists is likely to result in the death of two of the five recognized political prisoners

Ukrainian police launched a murder investigation on August 3 after missing Belarusian activist Vital Shyshou was found hanged in a park near his home in Kyiv.

When Putin claims that Russians and Ukrainians are ‘brothers’, he is doubtless not thinking of 16-year-old Stepan Chubenko, but likely includes the pro-Russian militants who seized the schoolboy, tortured him and killed him in cold blood for his pro-Ukrainian views

On the fifth anniversary of Pavel Sheremet’s murder, Ukraine’s new Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky has refused to speak with the slain Belarusian journalist’s family and friends

Over seven years after Cherkasy journalist Vasyl Serhiyenko was abducted and murdered, the trial of his suspected killers has been moved from a court which seems to have been doing everything to ensure that the case never ends in conviction.

Refusal to allow a devout Muslim’s body to receive proper burial can only be because the body would prove that the FSB are lying about how Nabi Rakhimov died

Russia is even violating its own laws with its treatment of gravely ill men and there are ways in which politicians and human rights NGOs could help to ensure that it is reminded of this.

As well as trying to deport Sokhiba Burkhanova, Russia is refusing to return Nabi Rakhimov’s body, confirming the suspicion that the FSB tortured him to death and then staged a ‘shootout’. .

Ervin Ibragimov was just 30 when he was abducted by men in Russian traffic police uniform, one of the many victims of enforced disappearances since Russia"s invasion of Crimea

Lawyers believe that the FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea first tortured Nabi Rakhimov, and then staged a ‘shootout’ on 11 May to conceal the real cause of his death