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Analytical information on enforced disappearances in Ukraine

From February 24, 2022, to March 31, 2023, we collected and entered into the database of the T4P Initiative information about 2,858 enforced disappearances committed against 5,140 civilians.

Ukrainian partisan captured and savagely tortured in Donbas put ‘on trial’ in Russia

The ‘trial’ is underway at the court Russia uses for political trials of Ukrainian citizens of Hryhory Sinchenko who almost died from the torture he was subjected to by Russia’s proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

Ukrainian researcher savagely tortured for ‘confession to treason’ against Russian proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

51-year-old hostage Olena Piekh urgently needs medical intervention, not least because of the electric shocks, the screws twisted into her knees, asphyxiation and mock executions used to force her ‘confession to treason and spying’

Former child hostage spends 7th birthday in Russian captivity for wanting to live in free Ukraine

Bohdan Kovalchuk was just 17 when he was taken prisoner by Russian-controlled Donbas militants

Silence abets Russia in torturing and risking the lives of Ukrainian hostages and POWs in occupied Donbas

Of the civilian hostages, ‘sentenced’ by these Russian proxy entities on ‘spying’ or even ‘treason’ charges, very many are known to have been imprisoned and savagely tortured for their pro-Ukrainian position

Russia’s Luhansk proxies ‘sentence’ two OSCE employees to 13 years on grotesque treason charges

The spectacle was condemned by the OSCE as “nothing but pure political theatre… inhumane and repugnant

20-year-old Crimean Tatar vanishes after arriving at Russian-controlled checkpoint

There is every reason to believe that Appaz Kurtamet has been taken prisoner by Russia’s FSB, and for concern since this bears all the hallmarks of an abduction

Well-known Ukrainian journalist and rights defender taken prisoner by Russian invaders

Like very many Ukrainian civilians, Maksym Butkevych saw no option but to join Ukraine’s Armed Forces soon after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Crimean Tatar disappears after Russia accuses him of ‘treason’ for Ukraine

Emil Emirov has not been seen since he was taken away, on 4 March, by the Russian FSB who claimed to suspect the Deputy Head of the Bakhchysarai branch of Crimean Telecom of ‘treason’ and ‘working for Ukraine’s Security Service'