Sentences of up to 22 years are guaranteed from politically compliant ‘judges’, but the Ukrainians demolished all of Russia’s lies about their ‘trial’ and about its war crimes against Ukrainian civilians

Hryhory Sinchenko will be turning 34 on 11 May 2025 in a Russian prison. He has endured years of torture because of his sense of justice and opposition to Russia’s occupation of his native Donetsk oblast

The Russians abducted Artem Kudzhanov when he was just 19 and had held him for over a year, before his family even learned that he was alive. By then the Russians had also seized Artem’s father, Ibragim Kudzhanov

Russia has long used and tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war to try to rewrite the facts about its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is now using particularly cynical claims about men seized in Kursk oblast

The Trump administration appears bent on silencing Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, something Moscow tried but failed to achieve and that will only help escalate its repression and crimes in occupied Ukraine

The Trump administration appears bent on silencing Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, something Moscow tried but failed to achieve and that will only help escalate its repression and crimes in occupied Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky / Voislav Torden, co-founder of the notorious Rusich far-right mercenary group, claimed to have never committed the war crimes about which he and fellow neo+Nazi Alexei Milchakov very publicly boasted

Russia bears full responsibility for the death in its custody of 60-year-old Rustem Viratti, who should never have been held prisoner.

Russia’s information blockade in occupied Ukraine makes it chillingly difficult to know how many victims are even referred to, but this latest sentence was for donations worth less than 11 euros

Little is known about 47-year-old Petro Zhytsky, however the speed of the FSB arrest and the claims of 'irrefutable evidence' based on his 'confession' while held incommunicado are disturbingly familiar

Yunus Masharipov was almost certainly targeted and tortured back in 2018 by Russia’s FSB for his human rights monitoring in occupied Yalta. His unwavering demand for justice has resulted in indefinite imprisonment in a ‘psychiatric hospital’

Russia nay well be creating bank accounts to catch patriotic Ukrainians on occupied territory and then fabricate surreal charges

Russia’s persecution of four members of one family, as well as of a gravely ill civic journalist is chillingly reminiscent of the methods of terror use by Stalin’s regime against the three brothers’ great-grandfather

The 27-year-old journalist, who lived for her work, had travelled to occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast in order to find out about Russia’s torture prisons on occupied territory

Russia has been systematically, perhaps deliberately, destroying a monument which, before Russia’s invasion of Crimea, was on UNESCO’s list of potential World Heritage sites

56-year-old Natalia Shulha has been held incommunicado for eight months, with the only 'videoed evidence' obviously faked and probably obtained under duress, if not physical torture

The only likely reason for the cruel lies to Lera Dzhemilova's family and months held incommunicado is that the FSB were using torture, threats or other illegal pressure to extract a 'confession'

The invaders attack on a monument to Taras Shevchenko is as Soviet as the so-called ‘writers union’ made up of men capable only of pushing lies and inciting to genocide against Ukraine

With impunity guaranteed for the Russian regime’s FSB and ‘courts’, no effort is made to present plausible charges to justify horrifically long sentences

With impunity guaranteed for the Russian regime’s FSB and ‘courts’, no effort is made to present plausible charges to justify horrifically long sentences