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Russia shells Kherson evacuation point, obstructs rescue efforts on occupied territory

Russia shelled an evacuation point where people were fleeing for their lives. On occupied territory, it is obstructing those trying to rescue people and making such rescue dependent on them having Russian passports

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza was charged with ‘terrorism’ although he had called for peace, not killings, and would probably not now be imprisoned at all had he not protest against Russia’s constant murdering of innocent civilians.

Not Kakhovka Dam alone: Russia destroys dams in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

While western media largely ‘play safe’ and report that Kyiv and Moscow ‘are blaming each other’ for the horrific disaster, the Russian invaders are actively destroying other dams in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Couple of men were sitting drinking tea in the kitchenette. A shell fell there and they were just torn apart. The soldiers buried them right in the vegetable garden...’

Pensioner Mykola Perepelytsia lives in Krasnopillia (Donetsk region). His village has been subjected to numerous airstrikes. He says: “An aircraft came every morning, smashing houses and tearing down roofs”.

Russia gave advance permission to not investigate its attack on Ukraine’s Kakhovska Dam

On an effective carte blanche for attacks on critical Ukrainian infrastructure and on the reasons why Russia’s attack on the Kakhovska Dam should lead to new International Criminal Court arrest warrants

Russia’s use of ‘education’ to destroy Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine is cultural genocide, study finds

The Institute for Mass Information probed the methods, and the false terminology, Russia uses to try to eradicate Ukrainian identity and convince young Ukrainians that they are ‘Russian’

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Just not in the belly: if they hit me, at least the child will be saved’

Oleksandra lived in the Mykolaiv region. By 24 February, she was 32 weeks pregnant. Together with her husband, they moved to the hospital where they worked, but the Russians shelled it too. The woman with the baby was forced to go down to the basement 12 times only 36 hours after giving birth.

Torture in Russian-occupied Ukraine was deliberate and increasingly systematic, with many civilians tortured to death

The body exhumed last week in Kherson oblast was one of many civlians seized and tortured, some to death, while Kherson was under Russan occupation

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Arrested for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine, sentenced to 10 years for ‘sabotage’

The emergence of ‘sabotage’ charges long after Ihor Kupich was arrested is just one of many reasons for deep scepticism about his ‘trial’

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Russian soldiers stopped the car with bread, threw the bread out and ran over it with their car. So that people would have nothing to eat’

A resident from Kherson tells how the city lived during the first days of the Russian occupation.

Russian citizenship or your life. How Moscow prepares for fake elections in occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia has yet again hit new depths, and is forcing Ukrainians to take Russian citizenship or risk losing vital medication

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

New charges against 64-year-old Oleh Prykhodko, imprisoned for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea

After openly fabricating absurd charges against Oleh Prykhodko back in 2019, Russia is now preparing new charges in order to imprison him for even longer

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