The suspicion is strong that Petro Opalnik’s indictment could simply read:‘Ukrainian’

Instead of releasing Tofik Abdulgaziev as required by Russia’s own legislation, the prosecution has found medical personnel willing to lie and claim that he does not have the life-threatening conditions already diagnosed

Russia’s attack on the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea began immediately after its invasion, and it has used all forms of terror and lawlessness to try to drive the Church out

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is accompanied on all occupied territory by efforts to destroy historical memory and Ukrainian identity

Russia's FSB have been fabricating 'Ukrainian saboteur plots' since soon after the invasion of Crimea, and there are no grounds for believing this plot to be any different, except that one of the victims, Volodymyr Ananiev is 75 and disabled

Those who incite to genocide typically attempt to dehumanize their victims, but it is disturbing that Andrei Perla’s ‘justification’ for Russia’s killing and maiming of sick children has elicited so little reaction

Russia has ramped up insane charges over a civic organization involved in the entirely legal and legitimate Crimean Blockade, in part to justify its abductions and terror in occupied parts of Kherson oblast

Everything about Russia's seizure, likely torture and 'trial' of Mykola Holubov was both cynical and in glaring violation of international law

Tetiana Bibik is one of an ever-increasing number of Crimean Ukrainians terrorised to extract supposed 'apologies' and deceived, since she is still facing a possible 5-year sentence for pro-Ukrainian social media posts

Any promises that ‘peace’ can be achieved in a day ignore the fact that Russia’s leaders are making it quite clear that they will not stop in their attempts to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state

The charges against Vadym Golda were grotesque and an attack on OSCE, whose drones regularly recorded the military hardware that Russia was illegally bringing to occupied Donbas

Russia’s use of ‘Crimean SMERSH’ to hunt out and terrorise Crimeans for their pro-Ukrainian position is always disturbing, but there are other worrying elements here also

Pardoned by Putin to kill Ukrainians, those Russian convicted criminals who died are now the subject of memorial plaques in schools and other measures to honour their ‘heroism’

Pardoned by Putin to kill Ukrainians, those Russian convicted criminals who died are now the subject of memorial plaques in schools and other measures to honour their ‘heroism’

As with Russia’s atrocities in Bucha, it is likely that the videos showing horrific war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war are part of Russia’s ‘military strategy’ against Ukraine

Russia is systematically targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians while torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war to force them into effectively ‘confessing’ to Russia’s war crimes

There is nothing to suggest that Pavlo Zozuliuk ever was a member of Right Sector, an organization that Russia has demonized since 2014, and has now used for this immensely cynical and legally nihilistic show trial

While the official line is that Russia did not bomb the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital on 8 July, nor any other target, pro-Kremlin social media is actively pushing various lies, or openly gloating

Russia is intensifying terror in occupied Ukraine with Ukrainians seized for social media posts from long before its full-scale invasion

Although effectively charged solely with telling the harsh truth, it is possible that 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova, who is from Lviv, was simply a convenient target