Three Belarusians known as the Svietlahorsk Rail Partisans have received monstrous sentences for courageous actions aimed at hindering Russia’s use of Belarus for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A draft bill that proposes to remove criminal liability for war crimes committed by Russian soldiers has passed its first reading in Russia’s State Duma.

Russia has given the verified confession made by one of its own soldiers, Daniil Frolkin, extra publicity by lodging absurd criminal charges against him

Rustem Osmanov was abducted by the Russian invaders from his home in Kherson oblast in April this year and illegally taken to occupied Crimea where a kangaroo ‘court’ sentenced him to six years on absurd charges

There is every reason to believe that Russia knew it would kill children and other civilians when it bombed Mariupol’s Drama Theatre back in March and that it is now seeking to eliminate all evidence

Four Russians, two of them from a Russian military intelligence [GRU] special forces unit, have been sentenced to 11 years for abducting Ukrainians in Kharkiv oblast and torturing them

A ‘court’ in Belarus has sentenced Vitaliy Melnik to 16 years’ harsh regime imprisonment in reprisal for the Belarusian’s role in obstructing Russia’s attempt to seize Kyiv.

Mariupol resident Mariana Checheliuk will be turning 23 on 5 January 2023 with her parents and younger sister not even certain where the Russia are imprisoning her

Russian schools, sports clubs and even streets are increasingly being named after soldiers who were killed while part of the army invading and ravaging Ukraine

Oleg Nilov's alleged ‘joke’ was almost certainly intended to amuse a Russian audience which is well aware of the bombs that Russia is using to deprive millions of Ukrainians of heating, electricity and water during freezing temperatures.

The proposed erection of a 20-metre New Year tree has been condemned by the real Mariupol City Council as “dancing on the bones” of all the civilians whom Russia killed this year.

Volodymyr Vorovka, an internationally known academic, is one of at least three Ukrainians seized by the Russian military in the last week

An important study carried out for Verstka Media provides a damning assessment and chilling examples of the Russian media's "direct and public incitement to genocide" against Ukraine

Russia is intensifying its efforts to mobilize any males in occupied parts of Ukraine, with men from occupied parts of the Luhansk oblast sent to the frontline, regardless of their age, state of health or number of childre

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there has been a huge increase in abductions, with many of those who disappear after being seized in Kherson or Zaporizhzhia oblasts later proving to be imprisoned in occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian human rights groups have monitored Russia’s kidnapping of children from occupied parts of Ukraine and are in no doubt that such enforced deportation and attempts to turn Ukrainian children into ‘Russians’ are acts of genocide.

Russia has been forced to bring in 'teachers' from Dagestan to implement its propaganda in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast

In this article, we publish a summary of the events that took place in the Kharkiv Region during the first 270 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24 - November 20, 2022) and were documented by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in the “T4P” initiative database.

14-year-old Vitalik was held prisoner by the Russians for ten days. He was cold, hungry and, doubtless, very frightened, with the invaders of his Kherson oblast village threatening to take him to Russia ‘for trial’

Shelling of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was accompanied by statements of high-ranking Russian officials confirming that these sites were being targeted and admitting that such sites were part of the country’s civilian infrastructure.