The horrific discoveries in the Kyiv oblast towns after Russia’s retreat at the end of March make it frighteningly clear just how much Russia has to hide in areas it is occupying or besieging.

A recent video in which a ‘Ukrainian refugee’ thanked Russia and claimed atrocities by Ukrainian Azov soldiers was secretly produced by Russia’s FSB

The invaders used violence against a demonstration on 2 April, and are believed to be holding a lot of local residents prisoner

Maksym Levin’s body has been found in the Kyiv oblast, three weeks after the renowned journalist and documentary produced disappeared together with a long-term colleague, Oleksiy Chernyshov

There has been no contact with Kherson journalist and Chief Editor of Kherson NewsCity, Kostiantyn Ryzhenko since 30 March and there is every reason to believe he is in danger because of his courage in reporting Kherson resistance to the Russian invasion

The Russian regime does not recognize Ukraine’s right to exist, and may well want to destroy the country’s rich historical and cultural legacy

Zaporizhzhia journalist Iryna Dubchenko has been taken prisoner by the invaders who told her that, if she didn't have a small child, they would have shot her on the spot

Oleksandr Koshelevych is one of around 30 local politicians, journalists and civic activists who have been seized since the beginning of Russia’s invasion and whose whereabouts remain unknown. 

No let up in Russian terror in Kharkiv, Severodonetsk and other cities in Ukraine

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group is documenting international crimes (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes) allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers in Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast. In this article we publish a summary of the events that took place in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region during the first 30 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war (February 24 – March 25, 2022). The information in this publication is approximate, based on the data we have collected and needs clarification.

The International Criminal Court had begun investigating likely war crimes within just over a week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and a Ukrainian coalition has already documented 388 such crimes.

The latest shelling of a hospital in Kharkiv left four dead, and injured three, with the hospital hit also a humanitarian aid centre

Russian soldiers have been targeting activists, journalists and local politicians in all towns and cities they have seized, with the latest victim Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov, a civic activist and journalist from Prymorsk

While mercilessly razing Mariupol to the ground and refusing to provide safe corridors, Russia is also organizing propaganda stunts with ‘refugees’ taken to Russia or occupied Crimea, or given ‘humanitarian aid’

The Russian invaders who seized Viktor Maruniak, the Head of the Stara Zburivka Council in the Kherson oblast, three days ago are savagely torturing him and placing his very life in danger.

Russia’s effective exclusion from the Council of Europe over its invasion of Ukraine will not mean that the gross violations of human rights it is currently committing will be outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights

The Russian invaders are resorting to violence as well as terror and abductions of journalists as Ukrainians continue to defend their freedom

96-year-old Boris Romantschenko had survived four Nazi concentration camps but was killed by Russian invaders whose leaders are claiming that their aim is “the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine

Like the concentrated efforts of Odesa residents to protect the city against Russia’s expected attack, the representatives of Ukraine main faiths expose the lies that Moscow is using to try to justify its invasion.

It is over three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, with the Belarusian regime a direct accomplice to the atrocities that Moscow is committing, yet EU goods are continuing to flow into the aggressor states