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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The Russians mindlessly destroy everything around,’ — Mariia Karandiuk, Zalissia

She was born in 1941 and survived the German occupation and exile. During World War II, the Germans almost burned down the warehouse where she was with her mother. In 2022, ruthless invaders came to Ukraine again. Now peaceful Ukrainians are being killed by Russians.

• War crimes

Russia sentences Ukrainians to over 20 years for partisan attack on Kherson collaborator

Yuriy Domanchuk and Vitaliy Skakun were seized by the Russian invaders and illegally ‘tried’ under Russian law for allegedly trying to kill a Ukrainian traitor on Ukrainian territory

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

15 years in Russian captivity for helping Crimean Solidarity human rights movement

Russia has now sentenced 25 Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists (including the late Dzhemil Gafarov whom it effectively tortured to death) to 355 years’ imprisonment for refusing to remain silent about its repression in occupied Crimea

• War crimes

Russia has been mercilessly tormenting 23-year-old Marianna Checheliuk from Mariupol for over a year

Marianna Checheliuk has been held prisoner by the Russians for well over a year, with her family disillusioned that the assurances given by the UN and Red Cross

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

Crimean Tatar journalist sent to Siberia for 19 years for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea

Remzi Bekirov was described by a former US Ambassador to Ukraine as “an inspiration, not only to your fellow Ukrainians, but to freedom-loving people around the world"

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘They burned down the house in front of the neighbor’

Step by step, Aniuta Myronets, a pensioner from Velyka Dymerka, is restoring everything the Russians destroyed. She borrowed money to patch the house and clean up the yard. While she was evacuated, Russian soldiers lived in her home. They kicked out the neighbor from her place and burned it down in front of her.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s first Ukrainian political prisoner: ‘Russians know no limits in their use of torture’

Mykola Shyptur spent nine years in Russian captivity for a pro-Ukrainian demonstration in occupied Crimea and, probably, because the appearance of a police officer prevented the Russian paramilitaries from simply abducting and killing him

• War crimes

Majority of Ukrainians say reconciliation with Russia is impossible and reject any territorial concessions

An absolute majority of Ukrainians now see reconciliation with Russia as impossible in their lifetime and would not agree to any territorial concessions ‘for the sake of peace’

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

Russia ignores own sentences to ramp up reprisals against Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Crimean Solidarity civic activist Rustem Emiruseinov and two other Crimean Tatars, Arsen Abkhairov and Eskender Abdulganiev, have now been illegally held in the worst of Russian prison cells for six months longer than their sentences demand

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My three-year-old son says: Putin should be buried in his bunker — then there will be no war’

Teacher Alina Veshchuk lived in Horlivka (Donetsk Region) until 2015. Then she fled the occupation to Kramatorsk. In 2022, history repeated itself again... She says that back in 2014 she already understood how the enemy was fighting: “Friends saw “Grad” (multiple rocket launcher) drove into the field, shoot at Toretsk, where the Ukrainian army was, then this “Grad” turned around and shot then back at Horlivka: the enemy wanted people in Horlivka to think that it was Ukrainian army shot back at them”.

• War crimes

Crucial step taken to ensuring Russia answers for its crime of aggression against Ukraine

The work of the new International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine should help to bring Russia, and its leaders to account for the most egregious crimes committed in Ukraine.

• Civic society

Thank You Letter to the Lev Kopelev Forum from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Humane universal values is what Lev Kopelev defended resolutely and continuously. And this is indeed what the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group strives for in its daily work.

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