Even a so-called ‘special military operation’, as Vladimir Putin euphemistically called Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine must obey the laws of war, and that means not deliberately killing children, like 4-year-old Lisa Dmitrieva

Vlad Buriak, the 16-year-old son of the Head of a Zaporizhzhia District Administration was released from Russian captivity on 7 July almost exactly three months after Russian soldiers abducted him

During Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine the Kherson Region became a part of the country with the highest number of enforced disappearances and illegal detention among civilians. To date (24 June 2022) 412 victims of these crimes have been identified.

There is no such thing as an independent court in ‘DPR’ and any decision regarding the two Britons' and Moroccan's fate will be taken by Moscow

Mariupol residents are forced to stand in huge queues for the five litres of drinking water allowed under Russian occupation

The situation is particularly shocking in occupied Crimea, where the schoolchildren reportedly forced to send ‘letters of gratitude’ to soldiers fighting in Ukraine may well have family now being bombed or shelled by those same Russian invaders.

Russia has used the armed formations it calls ‘republics’ in occupied Donbas to seize Ukrainian men and forcibly send them to the frontline where very many have been killed, and it now appears to be planning a form of mobilization in occupied Crimea

Moscow has clearly despaired of finding enough local collaborators to ‘govern’ the parts of the Kherson oblast currently under its occupation, and has brought in its own

Russia has reportedly sent the last doctors out of occupied Mariupol despite the real danger of epidemic in a city devastated by Russian bombing and shelling.

Three Belarusians are about to go on trial, with the Belarusian Investigative Committee having already labelled them ‘traitors’ and threatened the death penalty

The KHPG has been documenting war crimes since the first day of the war.It draws on information from open sources and appeals it receives from the victims or their relatives. In the past four months, we documented 590 incidents in the Kharkiv Regionin which a total of 777 people disappeared.

Russia is eager to instil so-called ‘Russian standards’, including Russia’s lies about its war against Ukraine, and is having difficulty finding local teachers willing to collaborate with them.

There is already evidence that three notorious Russian neo-Nazis are back fighting in Ukraine, and the number is more than likely to be higher.

People begin disappearing as soon as Russians seize any Ukrainian territory, as the situation in Enerhodar and Melitopol shows

Soon after Russia's missile strike on a Kremenchuk shopping centre, Putin's press secretary offered a swift end to the war if Ukraine capitulated. He did not state that otherwise such atrocities would continue, but this was, after all, obvious

Among the categories of people who disappeared the majority were ordinary citizens. They were not working for the media, and there is no information about them. It is proving impossible to determine their fate. Their occupations are unknown, and it remains unclear what category we can put them in.

Ihor Kolykhaev, elected Mayor of Kherson, was abducted by Russian soldiers on 28 June and is almost certainly in danger

The analysis of the collected information provides grounds to claim that there were deaths and injuries of civilian people, destruction and damage of civilian objects – residential buildings and civilian infrastructure facilities – due to wilful and indiscriminate shelling. The studied data also provides reasons to claim alleged incidents of enforced disappearances, captures of civilians, violations of humanitarian corridors and attacks on humanitarian aid supplies, looting, killings and others.

There has been total silence from the main Russian press agencies about Russia’s bombing of a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, and the Russian Union of Journalists never reports anything that could annoy the Kremlin

The new move has been criticized as making Russia’s armed forces “incredibly unprofessional”, with contract soldiers effectively becoming so much ‘cannon fodder’.