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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Terror and videoed ‘repentance’ for supporting Ukraine in Russian-occupied Crimea

A 54-year-old woman from Sevastopol is just the latest of many Ukrainians forced to ‘repent’ on camera for saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’, flying the Ukrainian flag, correctly reporting Russia’s killing of civilians, etc

• War crimes

Abducted Ukrainian first savagely tortured by Russian FSB, then by prison staff

Yaroslav Zhuk is one of an increasing number of Ukrainians whom the Russian invaders abducted and tortured in order to fabricate extraordinarily cynical charges of 'international terrorism'

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Go away and don’t come back’

Olha Lasa says that after the occupation of the village Velyka Dymerka, the Russians drove a tank into her garden and hid in the cellar, kicking her, the owner, out into the street. A large hospitable house, where children and grandchildren visited, burned down.

• War crimes

Russia’s reported mining of the Crimean Titanium factory 'could kill tens of thousands'

It is hard to believe that any number of deaths or level of environmental damage would prove an obstacle given the likelihood that Russia deliberately blew up the Kakhovka Dam, and is destroying other dams to obstruct Ukraine's counter-offensive

• War crimes

Record 32 countries join Ukraine’s Genocide case against Russia at UN International Court

Although the charges were initially over Russia’s lies about supposed ‘genocide’ as excuse for its full-scale invasion, there are serious grounds for accusing Russia of waging a genocidal war against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Former Crimean Tatar Mejlis official abducted and tortured, then imprisoned on absurd charges in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s latest abduction, torture and imprisonment of Crimean Tatar Eldar Mensitov came just days after it faced questioning over its racial discrimination before the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I looked at him and saw that he had no arm...’ — a resident of Makariv urban-type settlement tells how the invaders killed his grandson

Yurii Pladko is a pensioner from Makariv (Buchanskyi district, Kyiv Region). The war brought much grief to his family. The man tells about the invaders: “They didn’t look who was there — child or adult — they just shot whoever they wanted...”

• War crimes

Pregnant woman and others killed as the Russians shoot at volunteers and those fleeing the Kakhovka Dam flooding

Tetiana Hryshko and her unborn daughter, a 74-year-old and others are among the civilians Russia killed as they tried to help relatives flee from the flooding

• War crimes

Russians seize and torture two 16-year-old Ukrainian lads, threaten 20-year sentences

Russia is planning a grotesque show trial of two Ukrainian teenagers from occupied Berdiansk whom it is accusing of ‘sabotage’, with at least one of the lads subjected to savage forms of torture

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I dream about Ukraine victory’

Mariupol is one of the main symbols of the Russian army's war crimes in Ukraine. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group is engaged in documenting crimes and helping the victims. Oleksandra Netkacheva survived many shellings of the city. Unfortunately, her husband was injured during one of them and died in the hospital.

• War crimes

Russia shells Kherson evacuation point, obstructs rescue efforts on occupied territory

Russia shelled an evacuation point where people were fleeing for their lives. On occupied territory, it is obstructing those trying to rescue people and making such rescue dependent on them having Russian passports

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza was charged with ‘terrorism’ although he had called for peace, not killings, and would probably not now be imprisoned at all had he not protest against Russia’s constant murdering of innocent civilians.