The aim of this 'lesson' of lies ais clearly to present war criminals as ‘heroes’ and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine as aimed at ‘liberation’

Yaroslav Zhuk, a volunteer from Melitopol has been imprisoned for well over two months, with the aggressor state now accusing him of ‘international terrorism’.

It is well over five years since Russia was expressly ordered by the UN’s International Court of Justice to revoke its extraordinary ban on the Mejlis, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people.

It is well over five years since Russia was expressly ordered by the UN’s International Court of Justice to revoke its extraordinary ban on the Mejlis, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people.

The Mariupol City Council has posted photos from a so-called ‘children’s camp’ in Melekino, near Mariupol, and accuses the invaders of using Nazi methods and “trying to turn Mariupol children into Hitlerjugend”

St Petersburg priest Father Ioann Kurmoyarov has been held in custody since 9 June. “The blessed peace-makers will end up in Heaven,” he said. “you understand what I’m saying? The peace-makers. Those who unleashed this aggression will not be going there.”

Russia’s Rosgvardia fighters have reported ‘detaining’ more employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and have effectively acknowledged, against Russia’s own denials, that the invading state is using the nuclear plant as a military base

The Russian FSB carried out new armed searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses on 24 August, with two believers – 53-year-old Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhygalov (51) taken into custody

The Russian FSB carried out new armed searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses on 24 August, with two believers – 53-year-old Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhygalov (51) taken into custody

Putin’s war in Europe against democratic values is only the first wide scale assault on the West. The great dictatorial and conquering empires of the past are waking up in Moscow, Istanbul and Beijing.

Iryna Horobtsova is almost certainly held by the Russian FSB, with the latter accusing a Ukrainian citizen of obstructing Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukrainian territory.

Due to Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine was the only country in the world where cluster munitions were being used in August 2022, with Russia using them widely in densely populated areas

Long before the horrific explosion at Olenivka that killed 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russia had used claims that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were bombing the prison as part of their psychological pressure on the POWs.

A Russian prosecutor has demanded 15-17-year sentences against three civic journalists and two civic activists, all of whom were involved in reporting and / or supporting the victims of Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea

A Russian prosecutor has demanded 15-17-year sentences against three civic journalists and two civic activists, all of whom were involved in reporting and / or supporting the victims of Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea

Russia does not need to keep any record of how many Ukrainian men, forcibly mobilized from occupied Donbas, are killed in the fighting, nor pay compensation to the men’s families

The Russian occupation ‘Crimean High Court’ has knocked one year off the politically motivated 6-year sentence against Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, with the reason of quite staggering cynicism

The Russian occupation ‘Crimean High Court’ has knocked one year off the politically motivated 6-year sentence against Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, with the reason of quite staggering cynicism

“No to the War”, “Putin is a war criminal!”, or just a placard bearing eight asterisks—with such posters people in Russia hold solitary anti-war protests ending up on the dock.

‘Prosecutor’ Roman Lobov claimed that the men’s ‘guilt’ had been proven, although there is no material evidence even of an act of sabotage, let alone of the men’s involvement