For years, Russia claimed not to wield any control over its proxy Donetsk ‘republic’, yet it is now staging a fake ‘trial’ under its own legislation, of three of that fake ‘republic’s’ civilian hostages

Russia is spending eyewatering amounts of money on its war of aggression against Ukraine, while on occupied Ukrainian territory, it seems more concerned with indoctrinating young people than on rebuilding what it has destroyed

The Russians claimed to have ‘deported’ Oleksiy Brazhnyk in February 2023, almost six months after they abducted and imprisoned him, but he has disappeared

The invading power is even refusing critical medication to children unless their parents accept Russian citizenship

The UN Commission established appalling crimes, such as the repeated beating and rape of an 83-year-old woman in front of her disabled husband and the killing of a couple who had reported the wife's rape by Russian soldiers

Russia is continuing to seize and torture civilians in all parts of Ukraine that fall under its occupation, with many hostages held for over a year without any charges being laid

Russia abducted school directors, threatened to take children from their parents and tried other methods of coercion, but has consistently had difficulty in foisting its propaganda on Kherson oblast schools

There is every reason to believe that Roman Zarubaiev and Artur Nesterenko are illegally held incommunicado and deprived of independent lawyers

The Russians have fixated on the name that Iryna Navalna shares with the famous political prisoner, with this quite likely the reason for her abduction, torture and fabricated criminal charges

Russia’s persecution of Oleg Orlov is part of its attack on Memorial, an organization that played an invaluable role in speaking out against all Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and in defence of its political prisoners

The Russian court ignored Zhuk's identification of the individual as one of his torturers, as it does the harrowing account of electric currents attached to genitals, savage beating and other torture to extract a fake 'confession'

It is a war crime to deliberately target civilians and there is every reason, including lies told by Russia’s representative at the UN, to believe that the horrific attack which killed over half of the residents of Hroza (Kharkiv oblast) was intentional

18 months after the Nova Kakhovka journalist was abducted by its solders, Russia has claimed that he turned up in occupied Simferopol to ‘confess to spying’ for his own country in his own country

Russia has long tried to indoctrinate children in occupied Crimea into wanting to ‘defend Russia’ and is now using similar measures on other occupied Ukrainian territory

Ukrainians living in parts of Donbas seized by the Russians in 2022 are facing another hellish winter with the aggressor state openly saying ‘there’s no point’ in rebuilding many of the cities it destroyed

Over half of the residents of Hroza in Kharkiv oblast were killed in a Russian missile strike on a funeral wake, while the Russians also bombed the latest of well over a thousand Ukrainian hospitals

The claim that Father Khrystofor Khrimli and Father Andriy Chuy have been ‘expelled’ is particularly worrying since there is every reason to believe they are held prisoner in Russia

The Russian invaders inadvertently proved just how strongly the population of Zaporizhzhia oblast identify with Ukraine and are now using standard methods to try to crush Ukrainian identity in schools

The lawless charges against Mykola Petrovsky, who is seriously disabled, and 50-year-old Serhiy Kotov are clearly based solely on 'confessions' obtained through torture while the men were held incommunicado

Ruslan Abdurakhmanov is one of an ever-increasing number of Ukrainian political prisoners whom the Russians abducted from occupied territory after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine