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Moscow moves to legislate forced deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory to Russia

Moscow is repeating policy used under Stalin to destroy the Ukrainian identity of areas currently under occupation and to deport those who refuse to be ‘Russified’

Ukrainian volunteer tortured by Russian FSB to fake evidence for ‘international terrorism’ show trial

Ukrainian volunteer Yuriy Kayov was tortured in Russian captivity for two months, during part of which time a young child was also imprisoned and taken to the torture room

Russia escalates torture conditions against imprisoned Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal

There seems every reason to assume that the new torment is also part of Moscow’s revenge against a man whose courage and moral fibre it cannot understand or break

Fake ‘evacuation’ from Zaporizhzhia oblast to move Russian forces and conceal war crimes

The effective deportation of Ukrainians from occupied territory is being used to mask Russia’s movement of personnel and hardware and to hide its war crimes

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

Russia seizes and plunders central Cathedral of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

The Russian occupation regime has called its forced seizure and looting of the central body of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea “liberation”

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

Russian court helps prosecution fake evidence in ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar civic activist

In a Russian political trial the court looks the other way even when the FSB’s ‘secret witness’ proves incapable of recognizing the defendant

Liquidating the SOVA Center: The Official End of Religious Freedom in Russia

By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of freedom of religion remain in Russia.

Russian invaders abduct Ukrainian volunteer caring for elderly grandmother in occupied Melitopol

This is the second time that Illya Yenin has been abducted by the Russians and there are strong grounds for fearing that torture is being used to extract some kind of surreal 'confession'

• Voices of war • Interview

A small loaf of gray bread, a quarter for each family

Iryna Kravchenko is a resident of Rubizhne. In 2014, the invaders retreated, leaving behind devastation and mined forests. In 2022, they returned and practically destroyed the city.

Young Crimean Tatar illegally imprisoned in Russia on ‘treason’ charges for trying to visit gravely ill father

Russia’s FSB have concocted absurd ‘treason through spying’ charges against 25-year-old Leniye Umerova, five months after she was first detained while trying to visit her father, who is suffering from cancer

Public execution and savage torture for supporting Ukraine in Russian-occupied Skadovsk

The Russians who swarmed into parts of Kherson oblast at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion expected to be greeted with open arms, and instead met with anger and resistance

• Voices of war • Interview

‘The city became a ghost… Everything burned with blue flames’

A resident of Popasna, Ivan Hnatenko, hid in the basement for 38 days. One day a rocket hit his house. He collected snow in buckets with his neighbors, trying to extinguish the fire, but the house burned down. The Russians plundered his son and daughter's property. He says that he will not wish such a fate to the enemy.

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