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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

• War crimes

Ukrainian civilians disappear without trace after the Russians claim to have ‘humanely deported’ them

Larysa Dolya has not been seen since fighters linked with the notorious Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov turned up at her home in Zaporizhzhia oblast, on 11 January and took her away. She is one of very many civilians seized by the Russians

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110 days in a dungeon: torture in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Region

Vadym Kutsenko served in Ukrainian Army and resigned before the end of 2021. In February, he came to Kupiansk on business, and found himself caught up in the Russian invasion. Someone informed on him, and he ended up in the infamous Kupiansk detention center.

• War crimes

Russia imports its own ‘judges’ to occupied Ukraine while planning 'legal carte blanche' for its atrocities

While Germany cites fear of ‘escalation of the conflict’ to justify its refusal to help Ukraine drive out the aggressor state, Russia has already begun forcibly integrating occupied Ukrainian territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner’s sentence increased for contempt of Russian kangaroo court

The additional punishment is especially cynical as it was imposed because of Oleh Prykhodko’s insults directed at two FSB officers directly involved in the brazen fabrication of criminal charges against him.

• Voices of war   • Interview

A cemetery in the garden, looting, and drunken soldiers: Borodianka resident on Russian occupation

Tetiana Klihunova and her family survived the occupation in the village of Borodianka. She had to communicate with the Russian military and bury her neighbors in the garden. She confesses that household chores saved her.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean lecturer faces 5-year sentence for writing about Russia’s killing of innocent civilians in Ukraine

Andriy Bielozierov is under house arrest in occupied Crimea, facing preposterous criminal charges of ‘discrediting the Russian army’, although it is Moscow and its soldiers who discredit Russia by bombing and killing civilians

• War crimes

69-year-old Kharkiv region blogger tortured with electric shocks for answering his Russian captors in Ukrainian

69-year-old Anatoliy Harahatyy was held prisoner in intolerable conditions for 100 days, during which time the Russians tortured him and threatened to execute him if he did not agree to collaborate

• Events

Spontaneous Memorial on Ukrainsky Boulevard – Digest of Russian Protests

After a Russian missile hit an apartment block in Dnipro, killing over 45 civilians, including 6 children, Muscovites began bringing flowers and children’s toys to the monument to the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka

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‘I knew people who died in the basements of Borodianka…’

A resident of Borodianka, Valentyna Torhonska, was hiding with other people in the basement when a shell exploded near her house. In her declining years, she is homeless and doesn’t know how to continue her life.

• War crimes

Russian invaders torture and 'deport' Ukrainians for ‘extremist’ suport for Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia oblast

According to the Mayor of Melitopol, the Russians forced to retreat from Kherson oblast to occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast “are behaving like animals”, abducting and raping civilians