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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Former Crimean Tatar Mejlis official abducted and tortured, then imprisoned on absurd charges in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s latest abduction, torture and imprisonment of Crimean Tatar Eldar Mensitov came just days after it faced questioning over its racial discrimination before the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I looked at him and saw that he had no arm...’ — a resident of Makariv urban-type settlement tells how the invaders killed his grandson

Yurii Pladko is a pensioner from Makariv (Buchanskyi district, Kyiv Region). The war brought much grief to his family. The man tells about the invaders: “They didn’t look who was there — child or adult — they just shot whoever they wanted...”

Pregnant woman and others killed as the Russians shoot at volunteers and those fleeing the Kakhovka Dam flooding

Tetiana Hryshko and her unborn daughter, a 74-year-old and others are among the civilians Russia killed as they tried to help relatives flee from the flooding

Russians seize and torture two 16-year-old Ukrainian lads, threaten 20-year sentences

Russia is planning a grotesque show trial of two Ukrainian teenagers from occupied Berdiansk whom it is accusing of ‘sabotage’, with at least one of the lads subjected to savage forms of torture

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I dream about Ukraine victory’

Mariupol is one of the main symbols of the Russian army's war crimes in Ukraine. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group is engaged in documenting crimes and helping the victims. Oleksandra Netkacheva survived many shellings of the city. Unfortunately, her husband was injured during one of them and died in the hospital.

Russia shells Kherson evacuation point, obstructs rescue efforts on occupied territory

Russia shelled an evacuation point where people were fleeing for their lives. On occupied territory, it is obstructing those trying to rescue people and making such rescue dependent on them having Russian passports

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza was charged with ‘terrorism’ although he had called for peace, not killings, and would probably not now be imprisoned at all had he not protest against Russia’s constant murdering of innocent civilians.

Not Kakhovka Dam alone: Russia destroys dams in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

While western media largely ‘play safe’ and report that Kyiv and Moscow ‘are blaming each other’ for the horrific disaster, the Russian invaders are actively destroying other dams in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Couple of men were sitting drinking tea in the kitchenette. A shell fell there and they were just torn apart. The soldiers buried them right in the vegetable garden...’

Pensioner Mykola Perepelytsia lives in Krasnopillia (Donetsk region). His village has been subjected to numerous airstrikes. He says: “An aircraft came every morning, smashing houses and tearing down roofs”.

Russia gave advance permission to not investigate its attack on Ukraine’s Kakhovska Dam

On an effective carte blanche for attacks on critical Ukrainian infrastructure and on the reasons why Russia’s attack on the Kakhovska Dam should lead to new International Criminal Court arrest warrants

Russia’s use of ‘education’ to destroy Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine is cultural genocide, study finds

The Institute for Mass Information probed the methods, and the false terminology, Russia uses to try to eradicate Ukrainian identity and convince young Ukrainians that they are ‘Russian’

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Just not in the belly: if they hit me, at least the child will be saved’

Oleksandra lived in the Mykolaiv region. By 24 February, she was 32 weeks pregnant. Together with her husband, they moved to the hospital where they worked, but the Russians shelled it too. The woman with the baby was forced to go down to the basement 12 times only 36 hours after giving birth.

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