Russia is flouting international law and even its own norms, by holding 46-year-old Maksym Butkevych incommunicado and refusing to even pass on letters

25-year-old Emine Zekeryaeva could face a prison sentence for ‘failing to report’ a social media conversation she had no reason to see as ‘criminal’

The aim of these stunts is to terrorize Ukrainians on occupied territory and to try to silence any protest against Russia’s war of aggression

The men are also accused of destroying and trying to hide the weapons to prevent being identified

Bohdan Yermokhin is about to turn 18 and there are serious grounds for fearing that Russia will forcibly mobilize the young lad who has repeatedly been prevented from returning to Ukraine

There is huge support in Ukraine for such a ban of a church which was always, and according to some remains closely aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate which is supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

It was probably because of the outrage over the Yanukovych regime’s savage attack on young students that turned Euromaidan into mass protests and, ultimately, into what is now known as the Revolution of Dignity

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has been actively prosecuting those who circulate information deemed to justify, claim legitimacy for or deny Russian aggression.

If Russia had evidence to back its profoundly cynical claims, it would trumpet them, instead of using illegal formations on occupied territory to produce kangaroo court ‘sentences’

20-year-old Ilya Hibeskul has become Russia’s youngest Ukrainian political prisoner probably because he had not taken Russian citizenship and was trying to leave for Poland

The sentence against Ernes Seitosmanov should have been overturned altogether, but this was a political trial, and the ‘judges’ lacked the courage to do more than make a minimal reduction

The sentence against Ernes Seitosmanov should have been overturned altogether, but this was a political trial, and the ‘judges’ lacked the courage to do more than make a minimal reduction

Five young Telegram channel administrators have been held in captivity for over two months, and clearly tortured into providing Russia’s later propaganda attempt to combat Ukrainian resistance in occupied Melitopol

It is believed that Russian soldiers killed the nine members of one family, including two small children, after the children’s father refused to hand over the family’s home

Dmytro Kozlia has been imprisoned since July 2023, after being violently detained over comments deemed to ‘discredit the Russian armed forces’

Russia had long included many Ukrainian political prisoners on its notorious list of extremists and terrorists’ but since February 2022 it has begun bringing grotesque ‘terrorism’ charges against civilians abducted from newly occupied Ukrainian territory

As Oleg Orlov notes, the prosecutor’s office have themselves exposed the political nature of this ‘trial’, by claiming that the 70-year-old should be “isolated from society” for three years for criticising the regime

For years, Russia claimed not to wield any control over its proxy Donetsk ‘republic’, yet it is now staging a fake ‘trial’ under its own legislation, of three of that fake ‘republic’s’ civilian hostages

Russia is spending eyewatering amounts of money on its war of aggression against Ukraine, while on occupied Ukrainian territory, it seems more concerned with indoctrinating young people than on rebuilding what it has destroyed

Oleh Prykhodko is currently imprisoned for his condemnation of Russia’s invasion and occupation of Crimea and could be facing a further long term of imprisonment