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13 May 2026

KHPG’s Annual Media Report 2025

In 2025, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group’s media team covered a range of topics, focusing primarily on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Coverage also extended to domestic human rights issues and KHPG’s own work in war crimes documentation and assistance to victims and vulnerable groups.

KHPG maintains two websites (khpg.org and t4pua.org), a YouTube channel, and a range of social media accounts (Twitter/X, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook) that publish content in Ukrainian, English, and several other languages. The media ecosystem also includes an archive portal (materials from 1999—2022), a virtual museum, an online human rights library, and the “Voices of War” storytelling project.

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We combined reporting, war-crime documentation, multilingual publishing, and strategic advocacy aimed at both Ukrainian and foreign audiences. Most of our publications were designed not only for average readers but also for lawyers, investigators, diplomats, and international courts. We combine journalistic investigation, witness testimony, legal classification, and integration with our databases, which KHPG runs.

Editorial priorities in 2025

As the war continues, our media team has focused on documenting Russian war crimes:

Another topic that has been widely covered on the site since 2014 is the persecution of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea: Абсурдна сліпота російського кривосуддя, Russia escalates persecution, labelling renowned Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender a ‘foreign agent.’

In 2025, we published several exclusive reportages from the war zone: Костянтинівка: загроза давно вже тут, Добропілля: місто, що змінилося за два дні, Куп’янськ: життя в зруйнованому місті, евакуація крізь міни та знищення заповідної зони.

Despite the war, the media team continued to write about internal Ukrainian human rights issues. As we have for the past three decades, we continue to monitor violations of prisoners’ rights in Ukraine: Гуманність як обов’язок держави: чому звільнення тяжкохворих засуджених є питанням права на життя, За сім з половиною років за ґратами померло понад 200 довічників — Центр охорони здоров’я ДКВС, Пастка за ґратами.

We highlighted human rights concerns in migration and expulsion policy, with particular attention to cases of unjustified detention and extradition of Russian citizens who supported Ukraine in resisting Russian aggression:‘I’m afraid I’ll be kidnapped and taken to Russia’, Borisov Case a Test of Ukraine’s Commitment to European Human Rights Standards

As well, we analysed and reported on state policy and judicial practice concerning collaborationism and glorification of Russia, including court proceedings under Articles 111-1 and 436-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, with a focus on compliance with human rights standards and due process: A janitor, a cook, an informer — who is being tried for collaborating with the enemy?

To make difficult topics easier to understand, we produced explainers: Трибунал, якого всі чекали: переваги та недоліки, У серпні міжнародний Реєстр збитків відкрив нову категорію заяв.

Additionally, we regularly engaged a range of experts in international humanitarian law and human rights to provide analysis and commentary: Всеволод Речицький: Можливість множинного громадянства поліпшує ситуацію з правами людини в Україні, Комітет ООН проти катувань надав рекомендації Україні, врахувавши ‘тіньову доповідь’ ХПГ, ‘Ми повинні продовжувати нашу роботу та не йти на компроміси’, — Михайло Романов, Чи можна поступатися правами людини під час війни?

“Voices of War”

We continued to develop long-form, testimony-based journalism through the storytelling project “Voices of War.” It included survivor narratives, hostage and POW stories, civilian trauma accounts, occupation experiences, and cultural memory documentation. In 2025, we produced the four-part documentary With Ukraine in the Heart. The Woman Who Didn’t Break.

Т4Р

KHPG became one of the principal media amplifiers of the international initiative Tribunal for Putin. Among the most significant issues published on T4P last year were the following:


During 2025, the significance of our media platform lay in institutional trust, evidentiary value, international citation potential, and continuity of documentation during wartime. In the broader Ukrainian media landscape of 2025, KHPG occupies a unique position at the intersection of journalism, legal documentation, and international human-rights advocacy.

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