Russia has carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, with its co-chair, Oleg Orlov facing criminal charges and a likely prison sentence for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’.

25-year-old Iryna Navalna has been held in Russian-occupied Donetsk since September 2022, with her mother convinced that she has been targeted because she shares the same surname as Russia’s most prominent political prisoner

82 years after Adolf Hitler carried out a visit to Nazi-occupied Mariupol, Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin has also entered the city Russia gained control of after months of relentless bombing and shelling

Russian leader Vladimir Putin may not be detained in the near future, but the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against him and Maria Lvova-Belova is no mere symbolic gesture

A military court in Khabarovsk has sentenced Russian soldier Daniil Frolkin to five and a half years’ imprisonment in a case clearly intended to deter other soldiers from admitting to war crimes in Ukraine

If Russia had real evidence of war crimes, and not ‘confessions’ extracted through torture, it would be openly holding such trials and not hiding behind its puppet ‘republics’

Moscow is intent on inculcating ‘Russian world’ ideology in occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, and it needs children to receive maximum exposure to such propaganda at school

Russia is flagrantly violating international law by staging the ‘trial’ and ‘sentencing’ of well-known journalist and human rights defender Makysm Butkevych and two other prisoners of war seized while carrying out their military duties

The Russians who occupied Pisky-Radkivski (Kharkiv oblast) imprisoned and tortured civilians for demonstrating a pro-Ukrainian position, while also instilling terror, with young women in danger of being abducted and raped

A Ukrainian woman from Kharkiv has been returned to Ukraine after being effectively held prisoner in Russia for ten months in two psychiatric hospitals because she refused to accept Russian citizenship

Maksym Krysztop, a Russian pilott who admitted in March 2022 that he knew he was bombing civilian targets in Kharkiv oblast, including the Kharkiv TV tower, was found guilty of war crimes

47 civilians, many of them children, were killed in just one of the missile strikes on Izium, in Kharkiv oblast, that Russia continues to claim it is directing only at military targets

Five Ukrainians from Melitopol were abducted by the Russians in early April, and are facing charges of ‘intentional terrorism’ over an alleged plan to blow up a truck carrying humanitarian supplies.

Russia’s attack on the Kramatorsk Railway Station on 8 April 2022 was “a violation of the laws of war and an apparent war crime”, Human Rights Watch has concluded in an important study

In modern Russia’s NewSpeak, Ukrainian cities razed to the ground have been ‘liberated’ and children taken to the aggressor state to be ‘re-educated’ and turned into ‘Russians’ – ‘saved’.

In total, our organization documented 9,252 incidents in the Kharkiv Region during the reporting period. When classified by type of event, the most recorded incidents were related to shelling or bombing—information about at least 6,048 such incidents was collected.

Anton Cherednyk is about to go on ‘trial’ in Russia on charges that the Russian authorities have no right to lay, and under circumstances that suggest that this will be the latest of many show trials since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014.

Maksym Kolesnikov is one of 116 POWs freed on 4 February because Russia could not deny holding them, as it does with a huge number of the civilians it is illegally imprisoning

Children whose lives have been shattered and other Ukrainians are told that they were ‘liberated’ – and expected to nod their heads and say nothing.

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced Oleksiy Kiselyov to eight and a half years imprisonment on charges evidently fabricated after Russian soldiers abducted and tortured the 58-year-old former naval captain