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• Voices of war   • Interview

The Russians shelled the cellars in which people were hiding

Kateryna Rakhmatulina was not evacuated from Velyka Dymerka because she could hardly walk. They hid in the cellar with her eldest grandson, and the house above them bounced from constant shelling. Their neighbor was shot because he refused to give the Russians his sneakers. Catherine says that it was a miracle that she did not die.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We were nothing and nobody. We were a human shield for the Russians’

Nadiia Korcheva is from the village of Zalissia. Her blind sister died in a nearby house from hunger and cold. Nadiia was able to bury her only after the de-occupation. The Russians smashed everything around, robbed homes, mined vegetable gardens, and put up land mines. “But I carried on propaganda with them. I tried to convince them to surrender. I talked about our state,” — says the brave woman.

• War crimes   • Research

The Torture of Ukrainian soldiers and imprisoned civilians

On 26 June 1987, the UN Convention Against Torture (and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment) came into effect. At present, 173 States, including Ukraine and Russia, have signed and ratified the Convention.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia detains and prosecutes elderly activists for flying the Crimean Tatar Flag

While the rest of Ukraine celebrated Crimean Tatar National Flag Day, the Russian occupation regime came up with preposterous charges against two Crimean Tatars simply for flying the flag on their cars

• The right to life

Ukraine passes long sentences against former top official over savage killing of Kherson activist Kateryna Handziuk

Almost five years after a horrific acid attack on Kateryna Handziuk, a first-instance court in Kyiv has sentenced Vladyslav Manher to 10 years on a charge of commissioning the crime

• War crimes

Russian invaders kill two Ukrainian teenagers after torturing them as suspected rail partisans

There are serious discrepancies in Russia’s claim that 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov were killed ‘in a shootout’

• War crimes

Russia begins surreal ‘international terrorism trial’ after abducting and torturing five Ukrainians from occupied Melitopol

Yet another ‘trial’ with predetermined outcome has begun with five Ukrainians accused by the Russian aggressor state of ‘international terrorism’ and facing sentences of up to life imprisonment

• 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

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