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

Hromadske.ua journalist Victoria Roshchyna has not been seen since 12 March, and it is feared that she has been seized by the Russians who have invaded and seized control of Berdiansk in the Zaporizhya oblast.

The victims also included ten residents of an ordinary Chernihiv suburb who were killed by the enemy while standing in a queue for bread

Russia has bombed the Donetsk Regional Drama of Theatre, a vital cultural centre in Mariupol until Russia’s invasion turned it into a believed shelter for over a thousand civilians, most of them women and children (Updated information)

Russian invading forces are preventing the staff and patients of the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in Mariupol from leaving the hospital and, according to one witness, have seized the hospital and are using those inside as living shields.

Those who believe that only Putin and his immediate circle are to blame for this war and the atrocities being committed would do well to consider how many Russians are directly involved in the killing and / or maintaining the lies

Invading Russian forces have seized a second Ukrainian mayor, as well as the head of a regional council in Melitopol, and a civic activist organizing information self-defence in occupied Nova Kakhovka.

The disappearance of Oleh Baturin comes as Russia appears to be planning to stage a farcical ‘referendum’ and to concoct a so-called ‘Kherson people’s republic’

Updated The abduction of Ivan Fedorov comes a day after Russian soldiers burst into the Melitopol home of Leila Ibrahimova, a Crimean Tatar and Deputy Head of the Zaporizhya Regional Council, and took her away

A court in the Kostroma region of Russia has imposed a fairly heavy fine on Father Ioann Burdin, a Russian Orthodox priest who was detained after giving an anti-war sermon on Sunday, 6 March

Three patients were killed in Russia’s bombing on 9 March of a children’s hospital and maternity hospital in Mariupol

A day after Russian invaders held a large number of Ukrainian journalists hostage, trying in vain to get them to collaborate, the occupying forces in Berdiansk have come up with stunningly feeble propaganda to try to justify their invasion

Russia has effectively silenced all sources of objective information about its war against Ukraine at home, and is swiftly moving to seize control of the media where it has seized Ukrainian cities

In its bombing of civilian targets in Kyiv and Kharkiv, Russia has also hit Babyn Yar, the site of one of the worst Nazi massacres of the Holocaust