The ‘trial’ of Murat Mustafayev only eight months after his arrest and his four-year sentence show anything but a more humane side of Russia’s ‘justice system’

Appaz Kurtamet is one of an ever-mounting number of Ukrainian political prisoners whom Russia is imprisoning while it releases convicted killers and other violent criminals to fight and kill in Ukraine

The same state-sponsored plunder is near guaranteed while any Ukrainian territory remains under Russian occupation

In the videoed ‘apology’ which 19-year-old Kyrylo Kolomiyets may well have been tortured into making, he ‘blames’ the Ukrainian flag on ’19 years of western propaganda’

Two former Russian convicted prisoners recruited as Wagner Unit mercenaries have described their war crimes in Ukraine, including the killing in cold blood of Ukrainian children and teenagers, as well as prisoners of war.

Russia's abduction of Ukrainians from Melitopol and even the grotesque 'trial' about to begin may be no surprise, but it is frustrating when once reputable Russian publications like Kommersant help to turn facts on their head

33-year-old Pskov paratrooper, Andrei Medvedev admits to one episode where a civilian was subjected to mock executions but denies others

Iryna Horobtsova has been held in isolation, with no sign that Russia is accusing her of anything except opposing their invasion of her country

The new presidential decree envisages police checks and reports to Russia's FSB

Russian officials have fabricated one administrative arrest after another to keep 25-year-old Leniye Umerova imprisoned, and there are fears that they may be planning to concoct criminal charges

Rustem Kyamilev and his wife, Lilia Hemedzhy are not alone in seeing Russia’s FSB as behind this new act of repression against independent lawyers in occupied Crimea, with the role played by the ‘Crimean Bar Association’ particularly disturbing

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

As well as failing to provide proper treatment, a Russian occupation ‘court’ has also prevented Iryna Danilovych from preparing for the appeal hearing against a manifestly unjust sentence

If the men’s guilt is not in doubt, there are question marks over the motives for their arrest now, since then men were detained by the Russian proxy 'republic', after Russia actively obstructed earlier attempts to bring Vadim Pogodin to justice

Oleksandr Medvid has been found guilty of abducting Yury Verbytsky from hospital during the Euromaidan protests, but has been freed from serving the sentence

Oleksandr Medvid has been found guilty of abducting Yury Verbytsky from hospital during the Euromaidan protests, but has been freed from serving the sentence

Comments on the new draft laws which disqualify the members of Ukrainian pro-Russian parties from being elected to legislative bodies at all levels.

The Russians are preventing 16-17-year-olds from leaving occupied territory, with the invaders clearly just waiting for them to turn 18 when they can be ‘forced to volunteer’ to fight.

Russia’s Prosecutor General has declared CrimeaSOS ‘undesirable’ in Russia and occupied Crimea, claiming that it “poses a threat to the Russian Federation’s constitutional order and security”.