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Blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized, delaying Russia’s attempt to sentence him to 18 years

Russia has already tortured one Crimean Tatar political prisoner to death and is directly threatening the lives of at least two others, and this may well be only a ‘stay of execution’ in Oleksandr Sizikov’s case

• War crimes

The Russians “treat torture as entertainment” – Enerhodar Deputy Mayor held hostage for almost a year

Ivan Samoidiuk, First Deputy Mayor of Enerhodar, was the first of many Ukrainian civilians from Enerhodar to be taken prisoner by the Russian invaders

• War crimes

Children 'beaten for supporting Ukraine'. Seventeen kids returned after being held in Russian-occupied Crimea

Seventeen Ukrainian children have been rescued and returned to their families, after a supposed ‘summer camp’ in Russian-occupied Crimea turned into six months effective captivity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean lecturer dismissed, beaten and jailed for Ukrainian songs gets new sentence over a post about Russia’s killing of civilians

A ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has found Andriy Bielozierov guilty of ‘repeated public actions aimed at discrediting Russia’s armed forces’ through a post on social media about Russia’s bombing and killing of civilians

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB come for elderly Crimean Tatar National Congress delegate in hunt for ‘saboteurs’

Russia has openly targeted Crimean Tatars over the last month, with the search and detention of Mustafa Mustafayev one of two occasions where delegates of the Crimean Tatar Qurultay were singled out

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean radio enthusiast with a flag of Ukraine sentenced to 12 years on fake ‘spying’ charges

While Russia imposes total secrecy on such ‘trials’, there is every reason to assume that 35-year-old Stanislav Stetsenko is yet another victim of the Russian regime’s spy mania in occupied Crimea.

• Voices of war   • Interview

People knocked on the train doors and begged: ‘Let us in; we are with the children!’

During the bombing of Kramatorsk in 2014, Valentyna Bondarenko suffered a stroke. Eight years later, two seniors barely squeezed into an overcrowded train to evacuate from their hometown, heavily shelled again by Russian troops.

• Events

Ukrainian officials prevent former political prisoner held in Russia from returning to Ukraine

After being seized by the Russian FSB, savagely tortured and imprisoned for six and a half years, all Andriy Zakhtei wants is to get back to Ukraine, to his wife and their daughter

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist declares dry hunger strike in occupied Crimea

Iryna Danilovych is facing a 7-year sentence on evidently absurd charges after the FSB abducted and tortured her in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘In a state of shock, I almost gave away my child …’

During the shelling of Kramatorsk by the Russians, Vadim and his wife were on the evacuation train. His wife was seriously injured. Fortunately, she was saved.

• War crimes   • Events

Russia stages mass raids on Nobel Peace Prize laureate, brings criminal charges against Memorial Head for condemning its war against Ukraine

Russia has carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, with its co-chair, Oleg Orlov facing criminal charges and a likely prison sentence for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I was at home when the shell destroyed the wall’

Valerii Zinchenko, a resident of Moshchun, has eight children. Three sons went to the front to defend their homeland from Russian invaders. Valerii says he did not believe in the good intentions of the “brothers” since his time in the military service.