51-year-old hostage Olena Piekh urgently needs medical intervention, not least because of the electric shocks, the screws twisted into her knees, asphyxiation and mock executions used to force her ‘confession to treason and spying’

Bohdan Kovalchuk was just 17 when he was taken prisoner by Russian-controlled Donbas militants

Of the civilian hostages, ‘sentenced’ by these Russian proxy entities on ‘spying’ or even ‘treason’ charges, very many are known to have been imprisoned and savagely tortured for their pro-Ukrainian position

The spectacle was condemned by the OSCE as “nothing but pure political theatre… inhumane and repugnant

There is every reason to believe that Appaz Kurtamet has been taken prisoner by Russia’s FSB, and for concern since this bears all the hallmarks of an abduction

Like very many Ukrainian civilians, Maksym Butkevych saw no option but to join Ukraine’s Armed Forces soon after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

On the total degradation of the justice system under Russian occupation

Emil Emirov has not been seen since he was taken away, on 4 March, by the Russian FSB who claimed to suspect the Deputy Head of the Bakhchysarai branch of Crimean Telecom of ‘treason’ and ‘working for Ukraine’s Security Service'

On just some of the victims of Russia’s recognition of its puppet Donbas ‘republics’ and its official invasion of Ukrainian territory

Those western media asking “if” Russia is planning to invade Ukraine would be well advised to talk to the families of a large number of Ukrainian soldiers held prisoner by the Russian proxy ‘republics’ for up to seven years

Andriy Harrius was seized by militants from the self-proclaimed and Russian-controlled ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ on 11 December 2018 and has never seen his second child, who was born days later

Volodymyr Cherkas was tortured at the notorious Izolyatsia secret people in Donetsk for over two years, and there are very real concerns about his state of health

Olena Piekh is in urgent need of hospitalization after three and a half years of captivity and the horrific torture to which she was subjected when seized by militants from the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic

Yevhen Lavrenchuk, a Ukrainian theatre director who left Russia almost eight years ago was detained in Italy last month at Moscow’s request

Natalya Shylo’s openly pro-Ukrainian position made it dangerous for her to return to occupied Donbas, but she saw no choice when her elderly mother underwent an operation and needed her support

Lyudmila Huseinova was seized by the Russian-controlled Donetsk militants for her civic position and work in helping orphaned children and others living in horrific conditions in a village near the front

Viktor Shydlovsky is held in solitary confinement with the militants denying that he is in their custody. They were, however, more than happy for him to be used for an anti-Ukrainian program on Russian state television.

Olena Zaitseva has been held captive in the so-called ‘Donetsk people’s republic ‘ [DPR] since 26 February when she was seized while trying to prevent militants from seizing her 19-year-old son Vladislav

Valery Matiushenko’s family have heard nothing from or about him since 8 October, and it appears that the Russian-controlled militants are deliberately hiding him

It is over five years since the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR] seized five young lads and forced them to give videoed ‘confessions’ for DPR and Russian propaganda.