It is well over two months since well-known Ukrainian medic and sportswoman Yulia Payevska (‘Taira’) was taken prisoner while travelling to treat and evacuate wounded civilians from besieged Mariupol.

Ukrainian pensioner Valeria Goldenberg has been imprisoned for two months and could face a five-year sentence for a protest against Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Ukrainian pensioner Valeria Goldenberg has been imprisoned for two months and could face a five-year sentence for a protest against Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russian attempts to foist their educational program on occupied Kherson oblast schools have encountered resistance with virtually none of the school directors willing to collaborate

Russian attempts to foist their educational program on occupied Kherson oblast schools have encountered resistance with virtually none of the school directors willing to collaborate

The Levada Centre surveys should be read by all of those wanting to believe that a single madman is dragging his country into a war they didn’t ask for and do not support.

Anna Perova and Ludmila Annenkova made an action «We can't clean ourselves from the blood»: barefoot, in dresses with red stains, they stood out near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Moscow. Both were detained. Activists are printing newspapers, preparing instructions for anti-war protests and even creating poetry in exchange for donations for Ukrainian refugees.

25 volunteer drivers delivering humanitarian aid to Russian-besieged Mariupol have been imprisoned for two months, with the Russian proxy Donetsk ‘republic’ threatening them with 10-year ‘sentences’

Two separate sources in Russia have reported that Ukrainian refugees are being interrogated by Russian ‘investigators’ and pushed into providing ‘testimony’ that they came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces

In the second sentence for war crimes since Russia began its total invasion of Ukraine, two young Russian contract soldiers have received 11.5 year sentences for bombing civilian areas in the Kharkiv oblast.

Recently freed Ukrainian prisoners of war have given harrowing accounts of the torture, cruel and degrading treatment they were subjected to after being taken prisoner

Despite Russia’s total war against Ukraine and serious concerns expressed by human rights NGOs, 235 lawmakers voted on 31 May to dismiss Lyudmyla Denisova from her post as Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights

On 30 May it became known that the people’s deputies want to use the new law (“On the legal regime of martial law”) by proclaiming mistrust to Denisova after an instruction from Bankova street. If it happens, the independence of the institution of the Commissioner can be buried and forgotten. That independence survived in the winter months of Maidan, and later – in spring 2014 in opposition to the whims of parliamentarians. It was defended. The law defeated the arbitrariness.

Both of the Crimean Tatars abducted together with political prisoners Nariman Dzhelyal and two cousins - Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, have stated during the trial of the latter that their ‘testimony’ against the defendants was given under torture

he Mariupol authorities have reposted a harrowing photo which appears to show the premises of a supermarket being used as a dumping ground for the bodies of Mariupol residents

The mass arrests and imprisonment on absurd charges are clearly a threat, aimed at deterring lawyers from defending Russia’s growing number of political prisoners

An independent study has concluded that there is a serious risk of Russian genocide in Ukraine evidenced both in Russia’s incitement to commit genocide and in its pattern of atrocities

The analysis of the collected information gives grounds to claim that there were deaths and injuries of civilians, destruction and damage of civilian objects due to wilful shelling and indiscriminate shelling, probable incidents of enforced disappearances, captures of civilians, violations of humanitarian corridors and attacks on humanitarian aid supplies and convoys, volunteers, looting, killings.

In Dagestan a schoolgirl finished her graduation speech with phrases : “No to War! Free Ukraine! Putin is a devil”. She was forced to publicly apologize for this.

Four Crimean Tatar lawyers, all well-known for their tireless work in representing Russia’s ever-mounting number of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners, have been detained in the last two days