The UK-based law firm McCue Jury & Partners has served notice of legal action against Yevgeny Prigozhin and the notorious unit of Russian mercenaries, the ‘Wagner Group’] whom he controls and finances

The ‘trial’ is underway in Russian-occupied Crimea of Iryna Danilovych, the Ukrainian nurse, human rights defender and civic journalist who disappeared for almost 13 days after being taken prisoner by the FSB

Oleksiy Kiselyov, former commander of the Ukrainian Navy’s Slavutych Command Ship, has gone on hunger strike in the Simferopol SIZO [remand prison] where Russia is illegally holding him prisoner

Less than a month after a fake ‘referendum’ fabricated pro-Russian unanimity, the invaders have announced that they will be checking people’s telephones in search of subscriptions to Ukrainian Telegram channels

The incident is of serious concern given Interpol's failure to notice the evident political motives behind Russia’s wish to get Gulsum Khalilova extradited and imprisoned

There is almost certainly no evidence against Aziz Faizullaev aside from a videoed 'confession' which was obtained while the 25-year-old was held without access to a lawyer

As feared, Russia and its local collaborators are refusing to return Ukrainian children who were supposedly sent on holiday or to study in Russia or occupied Crimea.

A Russian occupation ‘court’ in Simferopol has sentenced Rustem Gugurik to eight and a half years’ imprisonment on absurd chances

After Monday 3 October, as the reality of partial mobilisation and the reaction of the authorities sank in, protests in Russia entered another quiet phase. A great many women who went out on the streets to protest were still being held in police stations across the country and in its detention centres.

Anton Krasovsky was fired for suggesting that Ukrainian kids be killed, but not for claiming that elderly Ukrainians wanted to be raped, that Ukraine had no right to exist and that those with whom it would be difficult to share one country should be shot

Oleksandr Tarapanov has become the first Ukrainian in Russian-occupied Crimea to receive a prison sentence on criminal charges which Russia hastily adopted in March to try to silence protest over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Parliament’s failure to properly comply with ECHR judgements is especially frustrating given the number of life prisoners in Ukraine whose sentences arouse very grave concern

Parliament’s failure to properly comply with ECHR judgements is especially frustrating given the number of life prisoners in Ukraine whose sentences arouse very grave concern

The Russian invaders are moving Ukrainian civilian hostages and prisoners of war away from Kherson oblast, without any indication as to where they are being taken

“The Russians are continuing to destroy everything that is linked with Ukraine, our culture, history and heritage” - Petro Andriushchenko, Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol,

A Czech court has dismissed one of the charges against Aleksandr Franchetti, but left the main charge unchanged

The charges against 33-year-old Artur Memetshaev are as lawless as his abduction,

The report paints a damning picture of the Russians’ methods of warfare, including indiscriminate attacks; the use of civilians as human shields and the shooting of civilians who were attempting to flee

Protests have been growing against the drafting of tens of thousands of men. The very term “mobilisation” was reworked to incorporate the Russian word for a grave ‘mogila’ (могила): substituting ‘g’ for ‘b’ transformed the partial ‘draft’ into a mass burial movement (“mogilisation”).

Ukrainian teacher Viktoria Andrusha and other civilian hostages and POWs were forced to sing the Russian national anthem every day, threatened with having their heads shaved and, in many cases, subjected to physical reprisals