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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My husband and daughter wanted to get to Brovary on foot’

Valentyna Bas, a resident of Zalissia village, went to work in Brovary on 8 March. On the same day, her village was occupied by the Russians. The woman tried in vain to rescue her family. In desperation, Valentyna's husband and daughter decided to walk to Brovary, but Russian soldiers detained them.

• War crimes

Russian court finds defending Ukraine was ‘terrorist activity’, passes 16-year sentence on former Ukrainian soldier

A Russian court has sentenced former Ukrainian soldier Denys Muryha to 16 years’ imprisonment on extraordinarily cynical charges

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar prisoner of conscience and victim of FSB torture urgently hospitalized in Russia

Emir-Usein Kuku, a recognized prisoner of conscience, has faced serious kidney problems since an attempted Russian abduction turned into ‘arrest’ after a crowd thwarted the FSB’s plans

• Voices of war   • Interview

In the shelter, my daughter cared for her toy

Olena Poliakova is from Kharkiv, Saltivka [a large residential district]. She talks about the courage of the eleventh graders who rushed to help the victims. About life under shelling in the school basement. About the driver who took a chance and miraculously evacuated them to the station. Despite the nightmare she survived, the trauma, and two surgeries, she hopes that Kharkiv will recover and become even better.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Four Crimeans sentenced in FSB remake of Russia's first Ukrainian show trial against Oleh Sentsov

The sentences were largely based on a denunciation from Oleksandr Pirogov, 8 years after he played a similar role in the trial of Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko

• The right to liberty and security   • Events

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’

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia passes record 20-year sentence in revenge for Crimean Solidarity human rights defence

This is the worst sentence to date against a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and comes as Russia is increasingly releasing men convicted of real crimes, if they agree to fight in Ukraine

• War crimes

Ukrainian Jewish leaders demolish Putin’s lies about Zelensky and 'denazification'

Vladimir Putin’s new attempt to call Ukraine’s President a “disgrace to the Jewish people” has been dismissed, like all his efforts since 2014 to justify Russia's aggression against Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘It felt like the Lord salvaged people’

From the beginning of the war, the son of Liana Florynska from Vyshhorod [Kyiv Region] was engaged in volunteer activities. He miraculously managed to stay alive when the Red Cross car came under mortar fire. Liana herself almost became a victim of the Russian bombing. She left the house a few minutes before the shell hit her apartment building.

• War crimes

Russia begins illegal show ‘trial’ of Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine in besieged Mariupol

Moscow has made no attempt to concoct charges that do not violate both Russian and international law, nor to conceal the emaciated state of men held in Russian captivity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Terror and videoed ‘repentance’ for supporting Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea

A 54-year-old woman from Sevastopol is just the latest of many Ukrainians forced to ‘repent’ on camera for saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’, flying the Ukrainian flag, correctly reporting Russia’s killing of civilians, etc

• War crimes

Abducted Ukrainian first savagely tortured by Russian FSB, then by prison staff

Yaroslav Zhuk is one of an increasing number of Ukrainians whom the Russian invaders abducted and tortured in order to fabricate extraordinarily cynical charges of 'international terrorism'