Russia has already killed one of the 25 Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists arrested in its 2019 attack on the human rights movement, and it is now placing Tofik Abdulgaziev’s life in danger

Russia has already killed one of the 25 Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists arrested in its 2019 attack on the human rights movement, and it is now placing Tofik Abdulgaziev’s life in danger

The suggestion from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence that the video was prepared in advance would raise many disturbing questions, as does the behaviour of the authorities in the light of the warnings received

Russia’s first political persecution of 65-year-old Oleh Prykhodko was openly fabricated, and the later charges are particularly ominous as the same mechanism could be used to extend the sentences of other Ukrainian political prisoners

The 51-year-old poet was charged with ‘fakes’ about Russia’s armed forces and ‘calls to terrorism’ over a poem and post in which he spelled out Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

Russia has staged another fake ‘trial’ on occupied territory and has already sentenced Ukrainian prisoners of war to hundreds of years’ imprisonment, accusing them of the war crimes that Russian armed forces are committing

In an 8-minute ‘court hearing’ in Lutfiye Zudiyeva’s absence, the journalist and human rights defender was found ‘guilty’ of an absurd charge over a very old Facebook post

Russia’s leaders will be “shooting themselves in the foot” with this pitiful attempt to rewrite history, one legal expert has noted, since the question must arise why they recognized Ukraine’s borders from 1991 until the invasion

Russia’s leaders will be “shooting themselves in the foot” with this pitiful attempt to rewrite history, one legal expert has noted, since the question must arise why they recognized Ukraine’s borders from 1991 until the invasion

Russia’s new textbook for occupied Ukraine aims to brainwash Ukrainian children into believing that Ukraine is the aggressor state and Russia the country they should want to ‘defend’ with their lives

Kyrylo Rozumiey still bears the scars of the electric current torture that his Russian abductors used against a lad who was just 18 when seized

The UN report on earlier civilian attacks and systematic torture coincided with Russia’s barbaric attack on Odesa, where the first Russian missile targeted residential buildings, the second – the medics and rescuers who sped to the scene

Russia is seeking a new source of ‘recruits’ for its war against Ukraine, as well as a way of utilizing those ‘veterans’ who have committed new murders or other crimes since their first release from prison

It is not the fighters with machine guns, nor other methods to falsify the results, that make it imperative that the West refuses to recognize Putin’s supposed ‘re-election, but the fact that the farce is taking place on occupied territory

Russia’s persecution of 64-year-old Edem Dudakov is not only because of his position in the Crimean Tatar Qurultay, but because he has exposed Russia’s barbaric destruction of the vital 16th century Khan’s Palace

Prominent Ukrainian human rights defender, journalist and prisoner of war, Maksym Butkevych could not have committed the ‘crimes’ Russia claimed, yet this was of no concern to Russia’s supreme court

Remzi Bekirov refused to be silent about Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea, and for that Russia is punishing him, and his entire family

Few will fail to 'vote for Putin' when there's a fighter with a machine gun accompanying the 'ballot box', but the Russians are also using other methods, as well as exploiting children for 'election' propaganda

While the pretext is new, Hennadiy Osmak is one of an ever-growing number of Ukrainian journalists abducted on territory under Russian occupation

Dmytro Yevhan is the latest of around 300 Ukrainian prisoners of war whom Russia has tortured into ‘confessing’ to the crimes the Russian invaders themselves were committing