Russia's template 'trials' of Ukrainians on 'saboteur' charges are as implausible as the Investigative Committee's attempt to present Aleksandr Talipov's attacks on Ukrainians as 'carrying out his civic duty'

Russia is intent on eradicating the Ukrainian language and all aspects of Ukrainian identity, with young Ukrainians a particular target

Russia is intent on eradicating the Ukrainian language and all aspects of Ukrainian identity, with young Ukrainians a particular target

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Amet Suleimanov turned 40 on 25 October 2024 in Russian prison with his persecutors seemingly determined to cause his death

Crimean Solidarity civic journalist Amet Suleimanov turned 40 on 25 October 2024 in Russian prison with his persecutors seemingly determined to cause his death

Yan Petrrovsky (now known as Voislav Torden) and his neo-Nazi sadist comrade Alexei Milchakov, are believed to have committed horrific war crimes in 2014

Osman Arifmemetov refused to remain silent about Russia’s mounting repression in occupied Crimea and its vengeance was savage

The 34-year-old was held incommunicado for three months before the Russians came up with insane 'treason' charges based on a 25-euro donation for Ukrainian drones

The charges in all cases are illegal, but some, like those against Azov Regiment prisoner of war Oleksiy Maksymov, seem breathtakingly lawless

Russia has massively increased its persecution of Crimeans on ‘treason’ and ‘sabotage’ charges since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, however the methods, including savage torture, remain those used since 2014

Optimism, altruism, and slight madness: the director of KHPG, Yevhen Zakharov, shares how to protect human rights during the war without burnout.

Russia is using immensely cynical excuses for blocking access to the bodies of 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanharov, while also refusing to hand over the body of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna

While the release of Maksym Butkevych does provide some hope, Russia is churning out a terrifying number of insane sentences against Ukrainian defenders after extracting ‘confessions’ through torture

It defies belief that António Guterres saw fit to visit Russia and Putin, who is under an International Criminal Court arrest warrant, while Russia continues killing Ukrainian POWs, abducting Ukrainian children and countless other war crimes

Russia has been persecuting the 'Alushta' Muslim community and its members for several years, unwilling to tolerate either its religious independence or the fact that it legally occupied the historic Yukary Dzhami Mosque in Alushta

Denys Narolsky from Crimea was already a recognized political prisoner because of his 9-year sentence for ‘desertion’. Now Russia has used its weaponization of citizenship to claim this was ‘treason’

Everything about Oleksandr Plysiuk’s arrest in March from the insane charges over a 2017 post to the ‘court trial’ seem aimed at providing a chilling warning to other Ukrainians on occupied territory

Hanna Yeltsova was only 20 when seized by the Russians who almost certainly used torture to extract a supposed 'confession' on video

Appaz Kurtamet was just 19 when first seized and almost certainly tortured by the Russian FSB before being sentenced to 7 years. Now his father has received an even longer sentence

Russia’s ‘restoration’ of Mariupol is reminiscent of the notorious Potemkin villages, with the truth sordid and very cynical