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’.

Russia finally released renowned paramedic Yulia Paevska, but is still illegally holding a huge number of other doctors and paramedics who were taken prisoner while trying to save lives during Russia’s bloody siege of Mariupol

It is almost three months since Andriy Horshkov was seized by the Russian invaders from his home in Kherson and there is every reason to fear for his safety

Kremlin propaganda chief Margarita Simonyan claimed to be simply relaying a ‘joke, or exclamation’ she had heard from several people when, on 17 June, she told Putin that “All hope is pinned on famine”.

A Russian bomber pilot, captured over Svitlodarsk in Donetsk oblast, has admitted being employed by a so-called ‘private military company’ and receiving 205 thousand roubles (3,5 thousand euros) a month for carrying out bombing raids

Russia has been rounding up men in Donbas and sending even those with evident medical conditions to fight and, more than likely, be killed fighting its war against Ukra

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to ensure that the death penalty imposed on Brahim Saadoun, a prisoner of war seized while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is not carried out.

Russia’s constant claim that it is only attacking military sites seems particularly cynical given the huge number of killed or maimed children, and of schools destroyed

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s ‘doubt’ that Ukraine will exist in two years is nothing to the open incitement to genocide seen from another high-ranking public figure

Denys Myronov's mother, Natalia, is convinced that her son was so savagely tortured because they could not break him and he refused to collaborate with the enemy.

The Russian invaders who have seized control of Mariupol are forcing the remaining residents to carry stamps in their passports, confirming that they have undergone so-called ‘filtration’

All of the civilians had been shot in the head, and many had their hands tied, and had also been shot at in the knees

Vitaliy Lapchuk was killed by the Russian soldiers who claimed to be ‘liberating’ Kherson. Killed, after they savagely tortured him for seeking to defend his country

Two British and a Moroccan fighting for Ukraine in Mariupol have been ‘sentenced to death’ by an unrecognized ‘court’ from the Russian-controlled ‘Donetsk people’s republic’

Russian media are deleting lists of Russian soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine following a court ruling stating that such information constitutes ‘a state secret’

Russia’s relentless destruction of Mariupol has left the city and its residents in acute danger of a cholera outbreak, but Russian propaganda is concentrating on removing the Russian language and hunting down 'nationalists'

It is well over two months since well-known Ukrainian medic and sportswoman Yulia Payevska (‘Taira’) was taken prisoner while travelling to treat and evacuate wounded civilians from besieged Mariupol.

Ukrainian pensioner Valeria Goldenberg has been imprisoned for two months and could face a five-year sentence for a protest against Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russian attempts to foist their educational program on occupied Kherson oblast schools have encountered resistance with virtually none of the school directors willing to collaborate