The sentence was, thankfully, lower than that demanded by the ‘prosecutor’ against Maksym Zinchenko for peacefully practising his faith

Russia is not necessarily succeeding, but the aim is chilling - to destroy the children's Ukrainian identity and get them to want to 'defend' those invading their country

Tofik Abdulgaziev is no longer in a critical care ward, however he is suffering many life-threatening conditions, with these effectively part of Russia’s reprisals for his human rights activism

Tofik Abdulgaziev is no longer in a critical care ward, however he is suffering many life-threatening conditions, with these effectively part of Russia’s reprisals for his human rights activism

There are only videoed ‘confessions’ almost certainly extracted through torture to prove the claims that six (or seven) men were planning ‘terrorist attacks’

At least five Ukrainian civilians are known to be held and almost certainly tortured at Odradivka, with the Russians having tortured at least two of their victims, including a Ukrainian Orthodox priest to death over recent months

The secrecy this time is not only because the charges are absurd, but to hide the inconvenient detail that Oleksandr Korol has been held hostage since 2017

Likely involvement in the enforced disappearance of Crimean Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov is the most chilling, but not the only way in which Russia’s traffic police are complicit in Russia’s crimes

Russia does indeed pose both an existential threat to Ukraine, and a threat to international security, yet the carnage and relentless attacks on critical infrastructure are made possible by the blocking of urgently needed military aid

In the first reading, the Verkhovna Rada adopted draft law No. 8371 on the prohibition of religious organizations that have a center of influence in the Russian Federation. The essence of the draft law, whether this ban is proportional, and how it will affect the relationship between the Ukrainian state and the church are discussed in this article.

The one-year sentence against Dilyaver Salimov highlights the malignant role played by notorious informer Aleksandr Talipov and the reprisals Ukrainians face if they refuse to 'apologise' for pro-Ukrainian views on video

The claims made by tortured terror suspects are absurd, but are being accompanied by a huge propaganda drive aimed at linking Ukraine with terrorism, as well, possibly, as with drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

After two years of evident lies, the Russians appear to be claiming that Khyliuk, an UNIAN journalist, was a 'military serviceman'. They have yet to admit to be holding award-winning journalist Victoria Roshchyna

The number of such killings of Ukrainian POWs has increased dramatically since November 2023 and it seems likely that this is, at very least, condoned by those at the top in Russia's military

Both Margarita Kharenko and Serhiy Avramenko were seized by the Russians from their homes in Melitopol in January 2023, and very likely subjected to torture

Denys Lisovets and his aunt were fleeing Russian bombs on his native Mariupol when he was seized by the Russians who first tortured him, and then came up with immensely cynical charges based solely on his defence of his country

Putin’s Russia has long worked to reinstate the Soviet system of denunciations, with the FSB using an ‘elastic’ norm about failure to denounce as a weapon of repression in occupied Crimea

Oleh Morochkovsky, sentenced to 11 years for ‘spying’, was one of two Ukrainians tortured into claiming that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that had attacked the largest nuclear power station in Europe

It seems likely that Father Kostiantyn (Maksymov) from occupied Tokmak was forcibly ‘disappeared’ in May 2023 for opposing attempts to forcibly merge the Berdiansk Diocese into the Russian Orthodox Church

It is cheering that Taras Kuzio, Serhiy Liulin and Petro Zhiltsov have been released, however there should have been an acquittal, with any proper ‘court’ throwing out the preposterous charges