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

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

Russia is not content to imprison the world-renowned human rights defender, but is also placing his life and health in danger

Russia has held the IT specialist from Kherson in near total isolation for almost two years, without any formal status or charges

It is two years since Ukraine’s Armed Forces liberated Bucha with the world learning of the atrocities that the Russians had committed there, and Putin ‘honouring’ the chief suspects of such war crimes

Russian doctors have acknowledged that the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist and political prisoner is gravely ill, but say he will be released only “twenty minutes before dying”

Russian doctors have acknowledged that the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist and political prisoner is gravely ill, but say he will be released only “twenty minutes before dying”

The aggressor state is forcing Ukrainians to go through gruelling interrogations and ‘filtration’ checks at Sheremetyevo airport, with many banned from their Ukrainian homeland for up to 10 years

An appeal from scholars of the world.

As well as evidence of Russians killing unarmed Ukrainian POWs, the UN monitors also found that virtually all Ukrainian POWs had been subjected to horrific levels of torture and ill-treatment

There may also be sinister reasons for Moscow’s failure to react to clear warnings of a terrorist threat, but the FSB’ have long been accustomed to fabricating terrorism, not fighting it

Having destroyed people’s homes, and driven many Ukrainians into effective exile, the Russian invaders are now stealing their property

Russia has plunged to a new low with its staged ‘appeal’ and life sentence against a Ukrainian prisoner of war seized while defending Mariupol