Any promises that ‘peace’ can be achieved in a day ignore the fact that Russia’s leaders are making it quite clear that they will not stop in their attempts to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state

The charges against Vadym Golda were grotesque and an attack on OSCE, whose drones regularly recorded the military hardware that Russia was illegally bringing to occupied Donbas

Pardoned by Putin to kill Ukrainians, those Russian convicted criminals who died are now the subject of memorial plaques in schools and other measures to honour their ‘heroism’

As with Russia’s atrocities in Bucha, it is likely that the videos showing horrific war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war are part of Russia’s ‘military strategy’ against Ukraine

Russia is systematically targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians while torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war to force them into effectively ‘confessing’ to Russia’s war crimes

There is nothing to suggest that Pavlo Zozuliuk ever was a member of Right Sector, an organization that Russia has demonized since 2014, and has now used for this immensely cynical and legally nihilistic show trial

While the official line is that Russia did not bomb the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital on 8 July, nor any other target, pro-Kremlin social media is actively pushing various lies, or openly gloating

Russia is intensifying terror in occupied Ukraine with Ukrainians seized for social media posts from long before its full-scale invasion

Yevhen Roman was left for dead by the Russians who killed four other unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war in cold blood, an undoubted war crime

Aleksandr Bastrykin and Russia’s Investigative Committee have been using torture to fabricate preposterous charges against Ukrainians since 2014, making his call for Putin to reinstate the death penalty chilling

The International Criminal Court has now issued six arrest warrants of high-ranking Russians, including Vladimir Putin and the top men waging Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

The release of the Crimean Tatar leader, Donbas hostages and imprisoned priests show that publicity and pressure can help, and underscores how much torment other hostages are enduring

Russia is imposing particularly restrictive measures against Ukrainians trying to reach their own homes in occupied Ukraine in order to appropriate their land

Yaroslav Zhuk was subjected to relentless torture, including electric currents attached to genitals, and savage beatings to force out a ‘confession’ to absurd charges

Oleksandr Pohorielov and three other Ukrainians were illegally imprisoned in occupied Donbas and almost certainly tortured for videoed ‘confessions’ to killings which Russia was behind

Yulia Kovieshnikova has effectively been held incommunicado since her abduction in April 2023, with Russia just as intent on hiding her supposed ‘trial’

There is also evidence that such appalling violations of international law have been committed under orders from military command

The Russian invaders executed both Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians from February 2022, but the scale and openness about such atrocities against POWs have risen dramatically

Russia has now added the Putin-initiated ‘Movement of the First’ to its arsenal of youth organizations aimed at indoctrination and militarization of Ukrainian children in occupied Mariupol

Both father and son have been in captivity since April 2022 with the charges against them both grotesque and almost certainly based on ‘confessions’ extracted through torture