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Over 400 victims of Russian aggression remain unidentified in liberated Kharkiv oblast

The bodies of victims continue to be found, including those of nine people killed when the Russians opened fire on two evacuation buses near Borova in Kharkiv oblast

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

Russia demands 18-year sentence for blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner on grotesque ‘terrorism’ charges

The Russian prosecution is claiming that blind and disabled Oleksandr Sizikov, together with Seiran Khairedinov and Alim Sufianov ‘sought to violently overthrow the Russian constitutional order” through religious and political discussions

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘When we saw planes, we fell to the ground’ (Moshchun resident Viktor Naimybutko)

We met 78-year-old Viktor on the ruins of his private house in Moschun in the Kyiv Region. For many years he has been equipping his dwelling, which was destroyed instantly by an artillery shell when the Russian troops went toward Kyiv in March 2022.

• Voices of war   • Interview

One gun against a pack of invaders: Olena Kratkovska on her father’s death

Olena’s father died on the seventh day of the war, defending his house in the village of Yahidne. He was a pensioner, but when the Russian invaders entered the village, he picked up a hunting rifle and went against the enemy.

• War crimes

Ukrainian works of literature and history banned as ‘extremist’ in Russian occupied Luhansk oblast

The list, probably drawn up in Moscow, prohibits all works on Holodomor and Ukrainian history in general, world-renowned writers, and even comics

• War crimes

Russia opens new prison for Ukrainian political prisoners abducted from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

This new prison is controlled by Russia’s FSB who have nine years’ experience of torturing Ukrainians and fabricating prosecutions with total impunity

• Voices of war   • Interview

Russians kept residents of the Chernihiv Region in the basement for a month

Unfortunately, not everyone came out of the basement when the Ukrainian army de-occupied the village. The Russians allowed women to go outside only once on 8 March, this was the way to congratulate them on International Women’s Day.

• Events

Poetry and Flowers Against the War – Digest of Russian Protests

‘I thought / that I was / a Russian / but this maniac / appears to also / think he is.’ The January issue of the Samara literature journal ‘Volga’ published anti-war poetry by German Lukomnikov.

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Vital ECHR judgement opens way for Russia to be held accountable for MH17 and other war crimes in Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights has demolished Russia’s narrative about a ‘civil war in Ukraine’ and found that occupied Donbas was under Russian jurisdiction from May 2014

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mass detentions in occupied Crimea as Russia openly terrorizes Crimean Tatars

33 Crimean Tatars, including a 17-year-old lad and at least two people with serious health issues were detained by enforcement officers in occupied Crimea on 25 January because they had tried to attend a politically motivated ‘court’ hearing

• Voices of war   • Interview

This teacher stayed behind in occupied Borodianka

“I couldn’t leave my dog,” says Nataliia from Borodianka. One day, eight Russian soldiers entered their house and began looking for the “Nazis”. According to Nataliia, they did not understand that no one was expecting such “liberators”.

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

Russia unleashes new wave of terror and arrests of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB have staged another round of armed ‘searches’ in occupied Crimea, with six Crimean Tatars, including a 67-year-old, detained and even denied access to their chosen lawyers