A Russian court has sentenced former Ukrainian soldier Denys Muryha to 16 years’ imprisonment on extraordinarily cynical charges

Vladimir Putin’s new attempt to call Ukraine’s President a “disgrace to the Jewish people” has been dismissed, like all his efforts since 2014 to justify Russia's aggression against Ukraine

Moscow has made no attempt to concoct charges that do not violate both Russian and international law, nor to conceal the emaciated state of men held in Russian captivity

Yaroslav Zhuk is one of an increasing number of Ukrainians whom the Russian invaders abducted and tortured in order to fabricate extraordinarily cynical charges of 'international terrorism'

It is hard to believe that any number of deaths or level of environmental damage would prove an obstacle given the likelihood that Russia deliberately blew up the Kakhovka Dam, and is destroying other dams to obstruct Ukraine's counter-offensive

Although the charges were initially over Russia’s lies about supposed ‘genocide’ as excuse for its full-scale invasion, there are serious grounds for accusing Russia of waging a genocidal war against Ukraine

Tetiana Hryshko and her unborn daughter, a 74-year-old and others are among the civilians Russia killed as they tried to help relatives flee from the flooding

Russia is planning a grotesque show trial of two Ukrainian teenagers from occupied Berdiansk whom it is accusing of ‘sabotage’, with at least one of the lads subjected to savage forms of torture

Russia shelled an evacuation point where people were fleeing for their lives. On occupied territory, it is obstructing those trying to rescue people and making such rescue dependent on them having Russian passports

While western media largely ‘play safe’ and report that Kyiv and Moscow ‘are blaming each other’ for the horrific disaster, the Russian invaders are actively destroying other dams in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast

On an effective carte blanche for attacks on critical Ukrainian infrastructure and on the reasons why Russia’s attack on the Kakhovska Dam should lead to new International Criminal Court arrest warrants

The Institute for Mass Information probed the methods, and the false terminology, Russia uses to try to eradicate Ukrainian identity and convince young Ukrainians that they are ‘Russian’

The body exhumed last week in Kherson oblast was one of many civlians seized and tortured, some to death, while Kherson was under Russan occupation

Russia has yet again hit new depths, and is forcing Ukrainians to take Russian citizenship or risk losing vital medication

Iryna and Oleksandr Levchenko are both in their sixties, but there are no grounds for believing that this would stop the Russians from using torture to extract insane ‘confessions’

Russia’s State Duma has adopted a bill which envisages jail for up to 15 days or massive fines (up to one million roubles) for maps which correctly show Crimea or other occupied Ukrainian territory as part of Ukraine

The technology may be 21st century, but Russia is certainly reinstating Soviet-style censorship, surveillance and denunciations

The Russian invaders use all forms of terror and pressure to remove Ukrainian from schools, and may well want to go further than the USSR and get rid of the English language also

Russia’s ‘legalization’ of forced deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory on 18 May is only the latest step in policy that was clearly planned from the beginning, a report has demonstrated ‘

Moscow is repeating policy used under Stalin to destroy the Ukrainian identity of areas currently under occupation and to deport those who refuse to be ‘Russified’