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71-year-old Ukrainian seized on fake 'spying' charges dies in Russian captivity

Almost nothing is known about Viktor Demchenko, however Russia was undoubtedly imprisoning him illegally and probably caused his death, as it did the deaths of Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyrinh

The Butchers of Vovchansk: Suspects named

They abducted the woman, fired a gun next to her ear, and beat her until she lost consciousness. Her tormentors have been named: a Russian citizen and someone from Luhansk are suspected of violating the laws and customs of war.

Our people are at home: 207 Ukrainians were returned from captivity

On January 31, more than two hundred soldiers and civilians were returned from Russian captivity.

Bizarre 'motives' concocted to imprison renowned Memorial Head for opposing Russia's war against Ukraine

Russia is clearly trying to imprison 70-year-old Oleg Orlov, by claiming that his opposition to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine was based on ‘ideological enmity towards traditional spiritual-moral and patriotic values’

Sentenced to die in agony, for writing about Russia’s war crimes against Ukraine

Russia has already caused the death of two Ukrainian political prisoners, and is now endangering and torturing 65-year-old Igor Baryshnikov for telling the truth about Russia’s crimes in Mariupol, Bucha and other Ukrainian cities

Russia uses punitive psychiatry to indefinitely imprison critic of its war against Ukraine

A Russian court has ruled that Viktoria Petrova was not in a fit state when she posted criticism of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and Putin's 'genocide of the Ukrainian people'

Václav Havel Prize to be spent on new teeth for those tortured by the Russians

The human rights activist will donate 20 thousand euros to help victims of Russian torture and support hospitals in the Kharkiv and Sumy Regions.

22-year-old Ukrainian jailed for 3 years for writing that Russia is destroying Ukraine

Prokhor Neizhmakov wrote of Russia’s imperialist aspirations and the huge number of deaths from Russia’s invasion of his country

War against Independent Culture: a Digest of Russian Protests

On 21 November, the Voronezh Chamber Theatre fired its director Mikhail Bychkov for his anti-war stance. Mikhail Bychkov is one of the founders of the Voronezh Chamber Theatre.

Fears for the life of Alexei Gorinov, serving 7-year sentence for telling the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Alexei Gorinov has been savagely punished for condemning Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, yet the authorities have now concocted new, absurd, charges of ‘justifying terrorism’

Foiled by Finland, Russia forces asylum seekers to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia’s methods of finding fighters for its war of aggression against Ukraine are brutally cynical and in flagrant violation even of its own legislation, let alone international law

Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized after 9 years of Russian brutal torment

66-year-old Viktor Shur has served nine of the twelve year sentence that Russia imposed on grotesque ‘spying charges’ over a photo of cows grazing at a disused aerodrome