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

Russia has held the IT specialist from Kherson in near total isolation for almost two years, without any formal status or charges

It is two years since Ukraine’s Armed Forces liberated Bucha with the world learning of the atrocities that the Russians had committed there, and Putin ‘honouring’ the chief suspects of such war crimes

The aggressor state is forcing Ukrainians to go through gruelling interrogations and ‘filtration’ checks at Sheremetyevo airport, with many banned from their Ukrainian homeland for up to 10 years

An appeal from scholars of the world.

As well as evidence of Russians killing unarmed Ukrainian POWs, the UN monitors also found that virtually all Ukrainian POWs had been subjected to horrific levels of torture and ill-treatment

Having destroyed people’s homes, and driven many Ukrainians into effective exile, the Russian invaders are now stealing their property

Russia has plunged to a new low with its staged ‘appeal’ and life sentence against a Ukrainian prisoner of war seized while defending Mariupol

Russia has staged another fake ‘trial’ on occupied territory and has already sentenced Ukrainian prisoners of war to hundreds of years’ imprisonment, accusing them of the war crimes that Russian armed forces are committing