Timur Shaimardanov and Leonid Korzh from the civic organization Ukrainsky Dom have both been active in supporting Ukrainian military under siege after Russia’s occupation and opposing the annexation

Representatives of human rights organizations in Ukraine and Russia have addressed an open appeal to the Ukrainian and Russian Human Rights Ombudspersons and the Chairperson of the Russian Human Rights Council under the President, Mikhail Fedotov.

Stakhanov residents are encouraged to provide contact details and addresses of journalists and pro-Ukrainian citizens who are automatically deemed to be abetting the far-right party Right Sector

It is over a month since theatre director Pavlo Yurov and artist Denis Hryshchuk were abducted in Slovyansk

Leaders of the so-called ‘Army of the South-East’ are believed to be planning to exchange the two journalists abducted in Luhansk on Sunday for their fighters arrested in Novoaidar during an armed attack on a polling station

Relatives of Oleksandr Davydenko, the acting head of police, report that he has been freed

The Chief Editor of OBZOR.lg.ua, Viacheslav Bondarenko and his colleague, a streamer for Spilno.tv, Maxim Osovsky were stopped by the so-called separatists at a checkpoint in the town of Shchastye in Luhansk oblast on Sunday evening

On Friday evening gunmen calling themselves fighters of the so-called ‘Army of the South-East’ abducted civic activist Ilya Yefremov

The courageous women from Kramatorsk [Donetsk oblast] who forced armed pro-Russian militants to leave their street have been forced to seek shelter after receiving serious threats.

Milana Omelchuk, a 22-year-old press photographer was taken captive by pro-Russian militants from the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic who demanded a huge ransom for her release

Volyn Post reports that its journalist, Serhiy Shapoval, has been released three weeks after being abducted by Donetsk militants.

Mykhailo Logvinenko, a young civic activist from Luhansk, was abducted on Saturday evening, May 10, chained, beaten and degraded with all of this being filmed by the terrorists

Yury Lelyavsky, Lviv journalist working as a freelance correspondent for ZIK has been released. As with Serhiy Leftner and Artem Deineha, the release was only announced after Lelyavsky was safely back in Lviv, though he had been freed on May 9.

It is not clear whether any of these pro-Russian militants whom the Kremlin and Russian television channels treat as representing the voice of the people of Donbas understand what they are seeking to achieve. Their language and behaviour is, however, becoming ever more aggressive

Anatoly Boiko, head of the Odessa Regional Branch of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine [CVU] has warned that Odessa is “on the threshold of terror” following the leaking of personal data about people who have spoken out in support of Ukraine’s unity.

Anna Mokrousova, freed this morning, has told Radio Svoboda that the pro-Russian militants who abducted her and fellow Civic Sector activist Alexei Beda on Saturday have been wound up by stories about the right-wing nationalist Right Sector party.

Two civic activists – Alexei Beda and Anna Mokrousova – have been abducted in Luhansk and it is believed that they are being held in the SBU building which is under the control of pro-Russian militants.

The widow of Horlivka City Council deputy Volodymyr Rybak who was brutally murdered, almost certainly by pro-Russian militants, has taken her 13-year-old daughter and left the city out of fear of provocation against members of her family.

Ihor Chudovsky, head of the Luhansk-based law firm Chudovsky and Partners is reported to have been seriously injured by the pro-Russian activists who on Tuesday stormed the Luhansk regional administration

Volyn Post reports that its journalist, Serhiy Shapoval contacted them briefly on Tuesday where he is clearly being held hostage by the pro-Russian militants