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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.

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Russia assures perpetrators of impunity for the killing of Ukrainian POWs, political prisoners and civilian hostages

15.10.2024
News of another Ukrainian tortured to death in occupied Kherson oblast coincided with emerging details about Russia’s killing of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna as well as of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Putin supports war propaganda ‚lessons for pre-school children in Russia and occupied Ukraine

14.10.2024
Very small children have been dressed up in military uniforms or positioned for pro-war stunts, with the Kremlin now possibly planning to formalize such indoctrination

UK sanctions Russia over use of ‘barbaric chemical weapons in Ukraine’

14.10.2024
The move follows similar sanctions from the USA, and mounting evidence of regular use by Russia of a toxic choking agent and other horrific weapons

Ukraine lodges war crime probe over killing of journalist Victoria Roshchyna in Russian captivity

11.10.2024
(Update) Ukraine’s Prosecutor General has initiated a criminal investigation into the death in Russian captivity of Victoria Roshchyna, with her death classified as a war crime linked with murder

Another Russian ‘trial’ by Crimean Tatar family echoing Stalin era persecution

11.10.2024
Russia’s attack on the Crimean Solidarity human rights movement was also an attack on one family, whose elderly parents have now lost all their sons, some 80 years after Stalin’s regime came for their great grandfather

Russia sentences Crimean to 14 years on indictment copy-pasted from countless FSB political trials

10.10.2024
While Russia’s effective information blockade means there is little information about 47-year-old Ihor Kopyl, there are all too many echoes from the charges used to imprison numerous Ukrainian political prisoners

Dramatic increase in sentence against two Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russian-occupied Crimea

09.10.2024
Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Heraschenko have become the latest in a very large number of Ukrainians imprisoned by the aggressor state for peacefully practising their faith

Iryna Navalna abducted from occupied Mariupol, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 8 years ‘because of her name’

08.10.2024
The slight reduction in the charges against the 26-year-old Ukrainian simply incriminates the court which clearly understood that the charges were absurd and that Iryna was telling the truth about the horrific torture she endured

Melitopol businesswoman dead after being abducted by the Russian invaders

07.10.2024
51-year-old Tetiana Plachkova had, at very least, been denied proper medical care, and now Russia is claiming it does not know the whereabouts of Oleh Platchkov, a year after it abducted him from his Melitopol home

Renowned Russian civic activist Ildar Dadin killed defending Ukraine

07.10.2024
Ildar had seen no choice but to take up arms in order to counter the mass killings and other crimes that his country was committing against Ukraine

Publications

Ukrainians in Russian captivity, ‘trials’ of ‘terrorists,’ and forcibly displaced children — what the report on human rights in Russia says

12.10.2024
Last week, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, released a new report. Here, we discuss the parts that are particularly important for Ukraine.

Dmytro Vovk: What awaits Ukraine after the law banning the Ukranian Orthodox Church?

02.10.2024
The law banning religious organizations that have the center of influence in the Russian Federation has already entered into force recently. What will be the consequences of increased state intervention in religious affairs? How will the European Court of Human Rights react to the ban on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? We spoke to an expert.

Protecting the Rights of Prisoners Deported from the Occupied Territories of Ukraine: Challenges and Solutions

02.10.2024
The NGO Prisoners' Protection of Ukraine managed to return at least 260 prisoners who were victims of forced displacement.

The Complexities of Working in a Conflict Zone and Mechanisms for Seeking Justice for the Victims and Survivors of Violence

19.09.2024
Yevhen Zakharov's speech at the conference of partners of the “Dignity” Centre on 17 September

‘My mother died, unable to bear that horror’

26.08.2024
Serhii Parfuliuk is a resident of the village of Moshchun (Kyiv Region). His house was completely destroyed by shelling, and his mother died after being evacuated, unable to bear the horrors of war.

Between despair and hope: 89 families from the Kyiv Region are waiting for their nearest and dearest from captivity

24.08.2024
Why international humanitarian law is powerless to free civilian hostages? Do state and international organizations help relatives of captives? How do we not lose hope? Here is a conversation with the Initiative Group “Our Dearest” representatives.

As of 19.08.2024, we know the whereabouts of 2,510 Ukrainian prisoners

19.08.2024
The T4P website now has live statistics on the locations where Ukrainians are being held in Russia and the temporarily occupied territory.

Cultural genocide is hard to prove, — says US professor

19.08.2024
John Hall spent nine weeks in Ukraine and came to some astonishing conclusions.

A Vision of Victory

13.08.2024
Only a free society of responsible citizens in partnership with a robust democratic state can overcome a totalitarian empire that is many times stronger in terms of resources.

‘Russia has systematically committed enforced disappearances in the same scenario’. T4P Initiative presents new research

07.08.2024
Russia’s long-term war against Ukraine and the recent years of full-scale Russian invasion have added to the history of atrocities. Enforced disappearances have become one of the darkest pages of this history. Lists of Ukrainians to be disposed of, children illegally detained in the temporarily occupied territories, and families still searching for their loved ones. 5340 victims. The global initiative T4P (Tribunal for Putin) discussed this during the research presentation on enforced disappearances.

‘He raised his machine gun and started shooting at’

31.07.2024
Mykhailo Tepliuk from Bohdanivka (a village in Kyiv Region) was walking home when a Russian soldier sitting on a tank started shooting at him. The first two bul-lets pierced his knee, while the third tore off his hat and grazed his temple. Later the Russians came to his house looking for weapons, even searching the first floor.

Tortured and killed — civilians of the village of Moshchun

25.07.2024
During the occupation of Moshchun (a village in Kyiv Region), the Russian military did not spare civilians. Olha Ivanenko's grandfather was found with three bullet wounds in his head. Olha still cannot understand why the Russians killed the 74-year-old disabled man.