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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Only the walls are standing, and nothing else is left of the house’

Svitlana Hryhorivna used to live in the village of Yakovlivka, Bakhmut district. The woman says the place was perfect, and its inhabitants prospered. Now the village has been destroyed by the Russian military. The house of a seventy-year-old pensioner and her three sisters homes have been burned.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘If the house is intact, we will certainly return’

This is the story of Nataliia from Bakhmut. In 2014, she and her husband saw the burning Sloviansk and the “referendum” conducted by Russians who landed from KamAZ trucks. Then, on 24 February 2022, they heard the first explosions while looking for where to withdraw their pension. They left on 7 April from the railway station in Kramatorsk, the day before the tragedy.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Insane sentence after Russian FSB kidnaps and tortures young Crimean Tatar from Kherson oblast

Appaz Kurtamet is one of an ever-mounting number of Ukrainian political prisoners whom Russia is imprisoning while it releases convicted killers and other violent criminals to fight and kill in Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Thousands of Ukrainians called ‘foreigners’ and stripped of their property rights in Russian-occupied Crimea

The same state-sponsored plunder is near guaranteed while any Ukrainian territory remains under Russian occupation

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mariupol student forced to make public ‘apology’ for Ukrainian flag in Russian-occupied Crimea

In the videoed ‘apology’ which 19-year-old Kyrylo Kolomiyets may well have been tortured into making, he ‘blames’ the Ukrainian flag on ’19 years of western propaganda’

• War crimes

Ukraine orders probe after Russian Wagner mercenaries admit to killing children and other horrific atrocities

Two former Russian convicted prisoners recruited as Wagner Unit mercenaries have described their war crimes in Ukraine, including the killing in cold blood of Ukrainian children and teenagers, as well as prisoners of war.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘You walk along the roads — and the shells stick out from the ground like tulips’

Iryna Korniichuk lived in Lysychansk. She saw Severodonetsk shelled and looked for food and medicine. She lost friends and almost lost her children — the dog saved them.

• War crimes

Russian media abet Putin regime in calling parts of Ukraine ‘new Russian territory’ and abducted Ukrainians – ‘terrorists’

Russia's abduction of Ukrainians from Melitopol and even the grotesque 'trial' about to begin may be no surprise, but it is frustrating when once reputable Russian publications like Kommersant help to turn facts on their head

• War crimes

Russian paratrooper goes on trial in Ukraine for alleged war crimes in Kyiv oblast

33-year-old Pskov paratrooper, Andrei Medvedev admits to one episode where a civilian was subjected to mock executions but denies others

• Voices of war   • Interview

They refused to cooperate with the invaders in Vovchansk

Oleksandr Skrypnichenko, a Vovchansk city council member, and his wife Nataliia refused to work with the Russians. A married couple tells about searches, life under occupation, and emotions on the day the north of Kharkiv Region was liberated.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People melted snow and trapped pigeons’, — Mariupol resident’s story

A resident of Mariupol, Serhii is one of those who survived the city's tragedy. He witnessed the bombing of civilian objects, a humanitarian catastrophe, and graves in the yards of residential buildings. He says the Russians are building on the city's outskirts to divert attention, and the city lies in ruins.

• War crimes

Abducted Kherson woman held for a year without a lawyer ‘to protect Russian state secrets’

Iryna Horobtsova has been held in isolation, with no sign that Russia is accusing her of anything except opposing their invasion of her country

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