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• 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

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Life-saving medication taken away from gravely ill Crimean Solidarity civic journalist in Russian occupation prison

The penitentiary service may well kill Amet Suleimanov even before Russia tries to execute the next stage of this effective death sentence and send him to a Russian prison colony.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seizes another Ukrainian in occupied Crimea on unprovable ‘sabotage’ charges

Scepticism is only exacerbated since Russia, which has been systematically bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since October 2022, is claiming that Serhiy Horiunov was planning to blow up an electrical substation in occupied Kerch

• Events

Notorious fake experts deployed in 'trial' of Memorial head for criticizing Russia's war against Ukraine

Concern that Oleg Orlov, Co-Chair of Memorial, could face imprisonment for his criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated since it became known who has provided the supposed ‘expert assessments’ of Orlov’s words

• War crimes

Abducted 69-year-old Ukrainian put on trial in Russia for defending Ukraine in 2014

Russia’s surreal indictment against Petro Tsarevsky inadvertently confirms that all of Moscow’s claims in 2014 were cynical lies

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

Record 'low sentence' exposes brutal methods behind Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea

The ‘trial’ of Murat Mustafayev only eight months after his arrest and his four-year sentence show anything but a more humane side of Russia’s ‘justice system’

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My brother was blown up by a tripwire mine. We don't know anything about his fate’

Meshcheriakova Tetiana was evacuated from the village of Seredne to Kramatorsk, to her mother. “Once it hit so hard that it blew out the windows, and then it hit again… Then we decided not to tempt fate and evacuate to Lviv,” — says Tetiana.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Only the walls are standing, and nothing else is left of the house’

Svitlana Hryhorivna used to live in the village of Yakovlivka, Bakhmut district. The woman says the place was perfect, and its inhabitants prospered. Now the village has been destroyed by the Russian military. The house of a seventy-year-old pensioner and her three sisters homes have been burned.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘If the house is intact, we will certainly return’

This is the story of Nataliia from Bakhmut. In 2014, she and her husband saw the burning Sloviansk and the “referendum” conducted by Russians who landed from KamAZ trucks. Then, on 24 February 2022, they heard the first explosions while looking for where to withdraw their pension. They left on 7 April from the railway station in Kramatorsk, the day before the tragedy.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Insane sentence after Russian FSB kidnaps and tortures young Crimean Tatar from Kherson oblast

Appaz Kurtamet is one of an ever-mounting number of Ukrainian political prisoners whom Russia is imprisoning while it releases convicted killers and other violent criminals to fight and kill in Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Thousands of Ukrainians called ‘foreigners’ and stripped of their property rights in Russian-occupied Crimea

The same state-sponsored plunder is near guaranteed while any Ukrainian territory remains under Russian occupation