Oleksiy Kyrychenko is one of five civilians illegally abducted and almost certainly tortured for the ‘confessions’ on which this latest ‘trial’ is likely to be based

Yanina Akulova, Dmytro Sergieiev and Anton Zhukovsky were all abducted from occupied Melitopol, with their videoed 'confessions' obtained long before Russia even admitted to holding them prisoner

Russia aims to execute “terrorists,” but this term is very vague.

Russia is continuing to aggressively foist its citizenship on Ukrainians on occupied territory, with such forced passportization prompting one elderly Ukrainian to an act of great courage

Russia is holding hundreds of Ukrainian medics prisoner, and has even sentenced one to 28 years on fake charges based solely on a ‘confession’ almost certainly extracted through torture

Russia presumably needs more prison space for political prisoners from occupied parts of Ukraine, with almost all non-political prisoners pushed to opt for killing Ukrainians rather than Russian detention

Eight men and women are to be ‘tried’ on charges which are very likely, in all cases, to be based on the same ‘confessions’ extracted through torture that Kyrylo Barannyk has described in detail

Denys Narolsky could face a life sentence for refusing to take up arms against his own country and for trying to get to mainland Ukraine

Little is known about Vitaly Rastorhuev and Volodymyr Kryvtsun except that they were abducted from Berdiansk with one of the men tortured into providing a ‘confession’ to match the predetermined charge

Russia is not necessarily succeeding, but the aim is chilling - to destroy the children's Ukrainian identity and get them to want to 'defend' those invading their country

At least five Ukrainian civilians are known to be held and almost certainly tortured at Odradivka, with the Russians having tortured at least two of their victims, including a Ukrainian Orthodox priest to death over recent months

The secrecy this time is not only because the charges are absurd, but to hide the inconvenient detail that Oleksandr Korol has been held hostage since 2017

Russia does indeed pose both an existential threat to Ukraine, and a threat to international security, yet the carnage and relentless attacks on critical infrastructure are made possible by the blocking of urgently needed military aid

The claims made by tortured terror suspects are absurd, but are being accompanied by a huge propaganda drive aimed at linking Ukraine with terrorism, as well, possibly, as with drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

After two years of evident lies, the Russians appear to be claiming that Khyliuk, an UNIAN journalist, was a 'military serviceman'. They have yet to admit to be holding award-winning journalist Victoria Roshchyna

The number of such killings of Ukrainian POWs has increased dramatically since November 2023 and it seems likely that this is, at very least, condoned by those at the top in Russia's military

Both Margarita Kharenko and Serhiy Avramenko were seized by the Russians from their homes in Melitopol in January 2023, and very likely subjected to torture

Denys Lisovets and his aunt were fleeing Russian bombs on his native Mariupol when he was seized by the Russians who first tortured him, and then came up with immensely cynical charges based solely on his defence of his country

Oleh Morochkovsky, sentenced to 11 years for ‘spying’, was one of two Ukrainians tortured into claiming that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that had attacked the largest nuclear power station in Europe

It seems likely that Father Kostiantyn (Maksymov) from occupied Tokmak was forcibly ‘disappeared’ in May 2023 for opposing attempts to forcibly merge the Berdiansk Diocese into the Russian Orthodox Church