The report by Human Rights Watch and Truth Hounds is particularly important given Russia’s attempts to conceal the evidence of its crimes, and to try to blame Ukrainian defenders for such crimes

For all its secrecy about the ‘spying’ charges it laid against Serhiy Tsyhipa, Russia is scarcely trying to conceal that he was targeted for his patriotism and opposition to Russia’s invasion

Russia is using the poverty and chaos it has brought to occupied territory to force Ukrainians to take Russian passports or face dying without healthcare or being left with no means of survival

The Committee’s recommendations responded to the issues raised in the joint report of the ADC Memorial and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.

Russian attacks in the last week alone have killed at least four children, yet it was Putin and his deranged attempts to justify Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine that received media attention

Russia tried to conceal the real targets for two days while trumpeting lies, unfortunately circulated in the western media, about a 'terrorist attack on civilians'

If Russia had any grounds for accusing Ukrainians of its own most egregious crimes, it would not be hiding the POWs and holding effectively secret ‘trials’ in kangaroo courts on occupied territory

If Russia was telling the truth, it would have every reason to hand over the bodies, rather than hurling accusations and providing no evidence

Valery Matiushenko recently turned 59, having been savagely tortured and imprisoned for almost seven years because of his pro-Ukrainian position

Among the immensely cynical ploys that Russia is using is to demand that the owners of property in occupied Ukraine claim it to be 'Russian'

The UN court’s ruling also means that its binding Order that Russia immediately cease its bombing of Ukraine remains in force and could result in Russia being ordered to pay reparations

The ‘testimony’ in this absurd case is known to have been obtained through savage torture while the men were held incommunicado

Ivan Kozlov was first held incommunicado, accused only of ‘opposing’ Russia’s war of aggression against his country. Then they came up with ‘spying’ charges almost certainly based on a ‘confession’ obtained through torture

A new bill may for the moment be another method of terrorizing people into silence, however the inclusion of a norm already used to prosecute Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians for calling Crimea Ukraine is, at least, ominous

At least 13 civilians were effectively tortured to death while parts of Kharkiv oblast were under Russian occupation, with others still missing or known to be in Russian captivity

Yaroslav Zhuk, a volunteer from occupied Melitopol, has been imprisoned since June 2022, with Russia bringing grotesque charges, based solely on ‘confessions’ obtained through torture

The announced hunt for ‘saboteurs and spies’ is the latest form of terror against Ukrainians living in their own country and persecuted for as little as demonstrating the Ukrainian flag or saying ‘Glory to Ukraine!”

Russia has formalized its grotesque attempt to justify prosecution for patriotic songs and greetings used to imprison or fine Ukrainians in occupied Crimea since 2022

The charges against Volodymyr Linnyk could not have been more surreal in their lawlessness and sheer cynicism

It was a war crime witnessed, on video footage, broadcast throughout the world, and even if Russia refuses to extradite such war criminals, the sentences are important for holding the aggressor state to account.