Russia dredged up Facebook posts from 2021-22 and grotesque charges to justify its latest attack and armed raid against Lutfiye Zudiyeva who tirelessly speaks out in defence of victims of repression in occupied Crimea

Both Mykola Petrovsky and Serhiy Kotov were seized by the Russian invaders back in March 2022, held incommunicado and tortured for many months before Russia came up with insane ‘spying’ charges

Even occupation ‘courts’ found difficulty convicting Imams, who had led worship in their communities for decades, of ‘unlawful missionary activities’

10 years on, Russia is using demography as well as indoctrination to rewrite the facts about its invasion of Crimea, with the same methods used on all illegally occupied Ukrainian territory

10 years on, Russia is using demography as well as indoctrination to rewrite the facts about its invasion of Crimea, with the same methods used on all illegally occupied Ukrainian territory

As with the killing of over 50 prisoners of war at Olenivka in July 2022, it seems likely that such videos and news of the horrific treachery at Avdiivka are quite deliberately made public

Russia is using fake ‘terrorism’ and ‘sabotage’ charges to not only imprison political prisoners for decades, but to punish their entire families

It is unclear whether the Russians hope that the two separate videos from near Avdiivka and Vesele will demoralize Ukraine’s defenders or whether they simply like boasting of their barbaric war crimes

Yevhen Pryshliak and his friend, Artem Baranov, a 32-year-old lawyer, were seized by the Russians in occupied Nova Kakhovka on 12 August 2022, with Russia refusing to even say where they are held

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.

Father Stepan Podolchak from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine had refused to betray his oath and his congregation by transferring affiliation to the Moscow patriarchate

This is the latest attack on a human rights lawyer whose tireless defence of political prisoners in occupied Crimea has made him a target for the occupation regime and renowned abroad. 

The report by Human Rights Watch and Truth Hounds is particularly important given Russia’s attempts to conceal the evidence of its crimes, and to try to blame Ukrainian defenders for such crimes

For all its secrecy about the ‘spying’ charges it laid against Serhiy Tsyhipa, Russia is scarcely trying to conceal that he was targeted for his patriotism and opposition to Russia’s invasion

Russia is using the poverty and chaos it has brought to occupied territory to force Ukrainians to take Russian passports or face dying without healthcare or being left with no means of survival

It is likely that Russia waited until after the International Court of Justice judgement to ban an organization playing a vital role in exposing its crimes in occupied Crimea

The Committee’s recommendations responded to the issues raised in the joint report of the ADC Memorial and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.

Almost nothing is known about Viktor Demchenko, however Russia was undoubtedly imprisoning him illegally and probably caused his death, as it did the deaths of Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyrinh

Russian attacks in the last week alone have killed at least four children, yet it was Putin and his deranged attempts to justify Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine that received media attention

The initiative group “December 1” opposed the dismissal of Zaluzhnyi.