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Russia announces ‘trial’ of Ukrainian prisoner of war on extremely dubious charges

Anton Cherednyk is about to go on ‘trial’ in Russia on charges that the Russian authorities have no right to lay, and under circumstances that suggest that this will be the latest of many show trials since Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014.

• other   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Relentless torment of Ukrainian serving 11-year sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea

Ivan Yatskin is receiving no medical care for serious health issues, with Russian prison staff using any pretext to impose new 'punishments' on the Ukrainian patriot

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Freed POW confirms likely huge number of Ukrainian civilians held hostage in Russia

Maksym Kolesnikov is one of 116 POWs freed on 4 February because Russia could not deny holding them, as it does with a huge number of the civilians it is illegally imprisoning

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Russia will force parents to attend war propaganda classes about its ‘liberation of Ukraine’

Children whose lives have been shattered and other Ukrainians are told that they were ‘liberated’ – and expected to nod their heads and say nothing.

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Kangaroo court in Russian-occupied Crimea sentences abducted and tortured Ukrainian naval captain to 8.5 years

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced Oleksiy Kiselyov to eight and a half years imprisonment on charges evidently fabricated after Russian soldiers abducted and tortured the 58-year-old former naval captain

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Russia blocks Google and intensifies terror and censorship in occupied parts of Ukraine

In order to foist a surreal narrative to justify its war against Ukraine, Moscow is applying terror and censorship on all parts of Ukraine that fall under its occupation

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Ukrainians tortured into ‘confessing’ to killing collaborators in Russian-occupied Berdiansk

Russia’s FSB [security service] claim to have ‘thwarted’ a new attack on a collaborator in occupied Berdiansk and captured those responsible for the deaths of several Russian-installed officials

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Journalist sentenced to six years for reporting Russia’s bloodiest war crime in Mariupol

A Russian court has sentenced journalist and human rights activist Maria Ponomarenko to six years’ imprisonment for a post on Telegram about Russia’s bombing of the Drama Theatre in Mariupol on 16 March 2022

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Russia begins grotesque show trial of abducted Ukrainian war veteran

Pavlo Zaporozhets joined Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, after Russia’s invasion of Kherson, and was serving in that capacity when seized by the Russians on 9 May 2022

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Prayers for Peace are Forbidden: a Digest of Russian Protests

The priest Ioann Koval replaced the word “victory” with the word “peace” in a special prayer about “Holy Russia”. Soon he was forbidden from leading any services.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The windows were blown out, frames and all’ (Vasyl Markhonos, Borodianka)

During the bombardment of Borodianka, Vasyl hid in a neighbor's cellar. Then, one day he decided to go home and cook some food. At that moment, a shell hit his house. It burned so that everything around melted.

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Russia forces parents in occupied Ukraine to take Russian citizenship or lose their children

A major part of Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine lies in brainwashing Ukrainian children and trying to convince them that they are ‘Russians’.