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Freed POW confirms likely huge number of Ukrainian civilians held hostage in Russia

Maksym Kolesnikov is one of 116 POWs freed on 4 February because Russia could not deny holding them, as it does with a huge number of the civilians it is illegally imprisoning

Russia will force parents to attend war propaganda classes about its ‘liberation of Ukraine’

Children whose lives have been shattered and other Ukrainians are told that they were ‘liberated’ – and expected to nod their heads and say nothing.

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Kangaroo court in Russian-occupied Crimea sentences abducted and tortured Ukrainian naval captain to 8.5 years

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced Oleksiy Kiselyov to eight and a half years imprisonment on charges evidently fabricated after Russian soldiers abducted and tortured the 58-year-old former naval captain

Russia blocks Google and intensifies terror and censorship in occupied parts of Ukraine

In order to foist a surreal narrative to justify its war against Ukraine, Moscow is applying terror and censorship on all parts of Ukraine that fall under its occupation

Ukrainians tortured into ‘confessing’ to killing collaborators in Russian-occupied Berdiansk

Russia’s FSB [security service] claim to have ‘thwarted’ a new attack on a collaborator in occupied Berdiansk and captured those responsible for the deaths of several Russian-installed officials

• War crimes • Events

Journalist sentenced to six years for reporting Russia’s bloodiest war crime in Mariupol

A Russian court has sentenced journalist and human rights activist Maria Ponomarenko to six years’ imprisonment for a post on Telegram about Russia’s bombing of the Drama Theatre in Mariupol on 16 March 2022

Russia begins grotesque show trial of abducted Ukrainian war veteran

Pavlo Zaporozhets joined Ukraine’s Military Intelligence, after Russia’s invasion of Kherson, and was serving in that capacity when seized by the Russians on 9 May 2022

Prayers for Peace are Forbidden: a Digest of Russian Protests

The priest Ioann Koval replaced the word “victory” with the word “peace” in a special prayer about “Holy Russia”. Soon he was forbidden from leading any services.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘The windows were blown out, frames and all’ (Vasyl Markhonos, Borodianka)

During the bombardment of Borodianka, Vasyl hid in a neighbor's cellar. Then, one day he decided to go home and cook some food. At that moment, a shell hit his house. It burned so that everything around melted.

Russia forces parents in occupied Ukraine to take Russian citizenship or lose their children

A major part of Russia’s genocidal war against Ukraine lies in brainwashing Ukrainian children and trying to convince them that they are ‘Russians’.

47 days of Russian captivity and torture for pro-Ukrainian graffiti

Andriy Andriushchenko spent 47 days imprisoned and tortured by the Russians for graffiti

• The right to life • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia tortures Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death

60-year-old Dzhemil Gafarov died in a Russian prison on 10 February 2023, almost four years after he was first arrested on fabricated charges and, in violation even of Russian law, placed in detention

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