Russia has dropped any pretence that membership of Yunarmia is voluntary, and that it is not linked with trying to force young Ukrainians to fight and die for the invading state

58-year-old Akim Gafarov, who was seized from occupied Kherson oblast back in 2022, was also deemed to not be ill enough despite serious health issues

58-year-old Akim Gafarov, who was seized from occupied Kherson oblast back in 2022, was also deemed to not be ill enough despite serious health issues

Suleiman Yusupov was hunted down by the notorious CrimeanSMERSH, forced to ‘repent’ on video and ‘tried’ for asking why others were silent when Russia was trying to crush their freedom

Such aggressive methods to eradicate anything but Russian propaganda-filled ‘schools’ may well be because of continued resistance to Russian occupation

Kostiantyn Zinovkin is one of hundreds of people from Melitopol seized and tortured by the Russians, with charges laid after weeks or months held incommunicado

Ukrainians came out everyday in protest at Russia’s occupation of Kherson in early 2022. Russia reacted both by opening fire and by abducting peaceful protesters like Serhiy Arefiev whom they then tortured and ‘tried’ on spying charges

Everything about Russia’s ‘trial’ of Hryhory Sinchenko is profoundly illegal, with it likely that torture has been applied to try to force him to give up his independent lawyer

Russia is not hiding such executions, quite the contrary, with this probably part of deliberate policy

Yulia Chicherina and the Russian soldiers showing off their 'trophy' clearly know that they need fear no consequences for admitting to a war crime. Why would they if Putin has 'honoured' numerous suspected war criminals?

Zodiye Saliyeva is a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement and no stranger to repression. Russia is now imprisoning her son on the same grotesque charges used under Stalin to execute her grandfather

It is possible that the increase in the already horrific and illegal sentence against imprisoned marine Dmytro Yevhan was because he retracted 'confessions' in court, stating that they had been extracted through torture

The methods are truly chilling, with Russia clearing wanting the population of occupied territory to be terrorized into silence and submission

The fine imposed is cripplingly high, with this only one of several such prosecutions which appear aimed at crushing a valuable source of truthful information

Not only is Putin claiming more Ukrainian territory than Russia is occupying, but school students must repeat these lies or fail their school-leaving exam

Stripped of the aggressor state’s fake coating, the charges brought against Hennadiy Osmak may well pertain solely to his truthful coverage of the legitimate blockade of Russian occupied Crimea

It is likely that both 57-year-old Mykola Zabirko from Mariupol and Iryna Kulish from Zaporizhzhia oblast were abducted and held incommunicado, with Russian methods of 'investigation' typically confined to torture

Russia has blocked all information about the insane charges against the Ukrainian pensioner from occupied Crimea, but could not conceal the fact that she is a political prisoner

Russia has claimed at least 40 Ukrainian men and women were involved in ‘sabotage’ plots with the only ‘evidence’ typically provided by videoed ‘confessions’ extracted through torture

While good that Ukraine’s legislators have finally passed a law which can help fight impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since Russia began its aggression, the limitation is frustrating