A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has found Mustafa Dzhemilev ‘guilty’ of three preposterous charges brought against the world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP

Satellite images have identified what appears to be a mass grave which the Mariupol city authorities believe could hold the bodies of from 3 – 9,000 civilians

Karina Yershova fled with her parents from the Russians who seized control of Donetsk in 2014. She was 23 when Russians invaded her new home in Bucha (Kyiv oblast), raped and shot her dead, leaving her body in a mass grave

Vanda Obiedkova survived in a Mariupol basement after the Nazis came for her family. 81 years later, she died in a bitterly cold Mariupol basement where she and her family were forced to seek shelter from Russian bombs.

Not only are the Russian invaders continuing to occupy parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, but they have already staged one fake ‘referendum’ and are reportedly planning others to try to ‘legalize’ occupation administrations

A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’

A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’

Ukrainian marine commander Serhiy Volyna has appealed to the Pope to intercede and writes that Mariupol under Russian siege is what hell looks like

There are no depths that the Russian military cannot plummet, with these now including the kidnapping of a child - Vlad Buriak, who has not been seen for 10 days

The Russian invaders are reportedly planning to totally close off the besieged city of Mariupol and carry out so-called ‘filtration’ of the entire male population

Zoreslav Zamoisky, a freelance journalist from near Irpin (Kyiv oblast) is the seventh journalist to have been killed since Russia began its full invasion on 24 February

. “The world’s second army, it would seem, is only able to fight civilians”

“Previously I loved and respected the Ukrainian people. But now, after the beginning of the war, I’m simply over the moon about them".

“Previously I loved and respected the Ukrainian people. But now, after the beginning of the war, I’m simply over the moon about them".

Russia has demonstrated yet again the repression that Crimean Tatars in particular, but all Ukrainians can expect in any Ukrainian territory that falls under Russian occupation

Russia has demonstrated yet again the repression that Crimean Tatars in particular, but all Ukrainians can expect in any Ukrainian territory that falls under Russian occupation

Compassionate Europeans need to realize that by taking Russians out of responsibility, they are actually doing them a disservice. Because the crime of the Russian state in Ukraine, not understood as a sin and not brought out of the soul through repentance, will inevitably lead to an even worse sin.

Hanna Havrylina's Russian torturers even forcibly cut her hair off, evoking involuntary associations with the Nazis who used to shave the heads of Holocaust victims.

According to the Mariupol City Council, Putin's policy is clear - first Russia destroys a successful and warm city on the Sea of Azov, and then they drive its residents to Siberia or Sakhalin to work as cheap labour.

Amar was just 14 when the Russian FSB came for his father, Tofik Abdulgaziev, and 22 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists or activists