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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mariupol student forced to make public ‘apology’ for Ukrainian flag in Russian-occupied Crimea

In the videoed ‘apology’ which 19-year-old Kyrylo Kolomiyets may well have been tortured into making, he ‘blames’ the Ukrainian flag on ’19 years of western propaganda’

• War crimes

Ukraine orders probe after Russian Wagner mercenaries admit to killing children and other horrific atrocities

Two former Russian convicted prisoners recruited as Wagner Unit mercenaries have described their war crimes in Ukraine, including the killing in cold blood of Ukrainian children and teenagers, as well as prisoners of war.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘You walk along the roads — and the shells stick out from the ground like tulips’

Iryna Korniichuk lived in Lysychansk. She saw Severodonetsk shelled and looked for food and medicine. She lost friends and almost lost her children — the dog saved them.

• War crimes

Russian media abet Putin regime in calling parts of Ukraine ‘new Russian territory’ and abducted Ukrainians – ‘terrorists’

Russia's abduction of Ukrainians from Melitopol and even the grotesque 'trial' about to begin may be no surprise, but it is frustrating when once reputable Russian publications like Kommersant help to turn facts on their head

• War crimes

Russian paratrooper goes on trial in Ukraine for alleged war crimes in Kyiv oblast

33-year-old Pskov paratrooper, Andrei Medvedev admits to one episode where a civilian was subjected to mock executions but denies others

• Voices of war   • Interview

They refused to cooperate with the invaders in Vovchansk

Oleksandr Skrypnichenko, a Vovchansk city council member, and his wife Nataliia refused to work with the Russians. A married couple tells about searches, life under occupation, and emotions on the day the north of Kharkiv Region was liberated.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People melted snow and trapped pigeons’, — Mariupol resident’s story

A resident of Mariupol, Serhii is one of those who survived the city's tragedy. He witnessed the bombing of civilian objects, a humanitarian catastrophe, and graves in the yards of residential buildings. He says the Russians are building on the city's outskirts to divert attention, and the city lies in ruins.

• War crimes

Abducted Kherson woman held for a year without a lawyer ‘to protect Russian state secrets’

Iryna Horobtsova has been held in isolation, with no sign that Russia is accusing her of anything except opposing their invasion of her country

• War crimes

Terror methods against Ukrainians who don't 'renounce their citizenship' in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine

The new presidential decree envisages police checks and reports to Russia's FSB

• Events

Young Crimean Tatar held hostage in Russia after trying to visit her gravely ill father in occupied Crimea

Russian officials have fabricated one administrative arrest after another to keep 25-year-old Leniye Umerova imprisoned, and there are fears that they may be planning to concoct criminal charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lawyers on Russian FSB hitlist for defending Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Rustem Kyamilev and his wife, Lilia Hemedzhy are not alone in seeing Russia’s FSB as behind this new act of repression against independent lawyers in occupied Crimea, with the role played by the ‘Crimean Bar Association’ particularly disturbing

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Russia plans life sentences for charges used against Ukrainian political prisoners and opponents of its war in Ukraine

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners