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Public execution and savage torture for supporting Ukraine in Russian-occupied Skadovsk

The Russians who swarmed into parts of Kherson oblast at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion expected to be greeted with open arms, and instead met with anger and resistance

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The city became a ghost… Everything burned with blue flames’

A resident of Popasna, Ivan Hnatenko, hid in the basement for 38 days. One day a rocket hit his house. He collected snow in buckets with his neighbors, trying to extinguish the fire, but the house burned down. The Russians plundered his son and daughter's property. He says that he will not wish such a fate to the enemy.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB make mass arrests, claiming they 'thwarted Ukrainian terrorist plot' in occupied Crimea

As with the alleged drone attack on Putin, there is no evidence that there genuinely were such ‘terrorist plans’

• War crimes

Ensuring that Russia answers for its killing of children in Uman and countless other war crimes

Russia is continuing to target civilians, with the latest missile strikes in Uman and Dnipro timed to cause maximum carnage and suffering

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We collected snow, heated it and cooked food on it’, says a mother of many children from Mariupol

Kateryna Mykula escaped with her three children from Mariupol. She tells how they lived in a basement, cooked on a fire, and most of all they were afraid of the enemy aircraft because in an airbomb crater even a “KAMAZ” (large truck) could hide — so big this crater was. The interview was prepared by Lviv journalist Taras Zozulinskiy.

• Events

FSB behind the torment and endless stream of sentences in Russia against 25-year Crimean Tatar

There are strong grounds for fearing that the FSB are using administrative arrest on fake charges to drag out Leniye Umerova’s imprisonment while they fabricate criminal charges against her

• War crimes

Russia to deport Ukrainians who reject Russian citizenship from occupied Ukraine as ‘foreigners’

In theory, such a refusal alone is not enough, however actions that constitute normal behaviour in Ukraine and any democratic country could be deemed to “pose a threat to Russia’s national security” and used as grounds for deportation

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘For some reason we were convinced that our house would not be hit by a rocket’

Squirrels, four cats, a dog, guinea pigs — with all this wealth, future veterina-rian Oksana Lopatiuk escaped from a burning house.

• War crimes

Russia blocks release of Ukrainian journalist held hostage for over a year

Dmytro Khyliuk was abducted in early March and is held hostage somewhere in Russia, with the Russians constantly breaking promises to allow his release

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian school textbooks delete Kyiv and 'explain the inevitability’ of Russia’s war against Ukraine

The material pushes a seriously distorted, and often openly false, picture of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Three shells exploded in my yard,’ — a Bohdanvka resident’s story

Marіia Petrivna has long retired; she has two daughters, a son, and six great-grandchildren. She ended up under Russian occupation with her son, and the Russians set up a headquarters next to her house. Mariia urged the Russian military to remember God and not disturb the villagers.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar human rights defender jailed for ‘resisting’ the Russian FSB who burst into his home and abducted him

It was claimed that Abdureshit Dzhepparov had 'resisted' masked FSB officers with machine guns who burst into his home on 25 April