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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We collected snow, heated it and cooked food on it’, says a mother of many children from Mariupol

Kateryna Mykula escaped with her three children from Mariupol. She tells how they lived in a basement, cooked on a fire, and most of all they were afraid of the enemy aircraft because in an airbomb crater even a “KAMAZ” (large truck) could hide — so big this crater was. The interview was prepared by Lviv journalist Taras Zozulinskiy.

• Events

FSB behind the torment and endless stream of sentences in Russia against 25-year Crimean Tatar

There are strong grounds for fearing that the FSB are using administrative arrest on fake charges to drag out Leniye Umerova’s imprisonment while they fabricate criminal charges against her

• War crimes

Russia to deport Ukrainians who reject Russian citizenship from occupied Ukraine as ‘foreigners’

In theory, such a refusal alone is not enough, however actions that constitute normal behaviour in Ukraine and any democratic country could be deemed to “pose a threat to Russia’s national security” and used as grounds for deportation

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘For some reason we were convinced that our house would not be hit by a rocket’

Squirrels, four cats, a dog, guinea pigs — with all this wealth, future veterina-rian Oksana Lopatiuk escaped from a burning house.

• War crimes

Russia blocks release of Ukrainian journalist held hostage for over a year

Dmytro Khyliuk was abducted in early March and is held hostage somewhere in Russia, with the Russians constantly breaking promises to allow his release

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

Russian school textbooks delete Kyiv and 'explain the inevitability’ of Russia’s war against Ukraine

The material pushes a seriously distorted, and often openly false, picture of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Three shells exploded in my yard,’ — a Bohdanvka resident’s story

Marіia Petrivna has long retired; she has two daughters, a son, and six great-grandchildren. She ended up under Russian occupation with her son, and the Russians set up a headquarters next to her house. Mariia urged the Russian military to remember God and not disturb the villagers.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar human rights defender jailed for ‘resisting’ the Russian FSB who burst into his home and abducted him

It was claimed that Abdureshit Dzhepparov had 'resisted' masked FSB officers with machine guns who burst into his home on 25 April

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

Life-saving medication taken away from gravely ill Crimean Solidarity civic journalist in Russian occupation prison

The penitentiary service may well kill Amet Suleimanov even before Russia tries to execute the next stage of this effective death sentence and send him to a Russian prison colony.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seizes another Ukrainian in occupied Crimea on unprovable ‘sabotage’ charges

Scepticism is only exacerbated since Russia, which has been systematically bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since October 2022, is claiming that Serhiy Horiunov was planning to blow up an electrical substation in occupied Kerch

• Events

Notorious fake experts deployed in 'trial' of Memorial head for criticizing Russia's war against Ukraine

Concern that Oleg Orlov, Co-Chair of Memorial, could face imprisonment for his criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated since it became known who has provided the supposed ‘expert assessments’ of Orlov’s words

• War crimes

Abducted 69-year-old Ukrainian put on trial in Russia for defending Ukraine in 2014

Russia’s surreal indictment against Petro Tsarevsky inadvertently confirms that all of Moscow’s claims in 2014 were cynical lies