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• Voices of war   • Interview

Wrecked cars often had ‘Children’ written on them

From the first days of the war, the city of Chernihiv was subject to severe bombardments by the Russian army. Oksana Shevel, who lived in the urban settlement of Kulykivka near Chernihiv, talks about the difficult humanitarian situation, columns of refugees, and work at the volunteer headquarters.

• War crimes

Russia intensifies terror against children and their parents in occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

Moscow is intent on inculcating ‘Russian world’ ideology in occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, and it needs children to receive maximum exposure to such propaganda at school

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

‘Court’ in occupied Crimea fines woman for ‘discrediting Russian army’ by video with Ukraine’s national anthem

A 20-year-old woman from Russian-occupied Crimea has been fined 50 thousand roubles for posting a video with Ukraine’s national anthem on social media

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Many houses have been destroyed, and people have nowhere to return to…’

Tymchenko Mykhailo, a resident of the village of Moshchun, did not believe in a full-scale war. Hence, he did not have time to collect an emergency go bag or insulin supplies for the evacuation. Now he has returned to Moshchun and plans to restore his house.

• War crimes

Russia 'sentences' POW and prominent human rights defender Maksym Butkevych to 13 years on fictitious charges

Russia is flagrantly violating international law by staging the ‘trial’ and ‘sentencing’ of well-known journalist and human rights defender Makysm Butkevych and two other prisoners of war seized while carrying out their military duties

• War crimes

Tortured by Russian invaders for “Glory to Ukraine” or a chevron with the Ukrainian flag

The Russians who occupied Pisky-Radkivski (Kharkiv oblast) imprisoned and tortured civilians for demonstrating a pro-Ukrainian position, while also instilling terror, with young women in danger of being abducted and raped

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We don’t have an apartment anymore, Katia.’ A story of the Kharkiv student

Kateryna Hurina is a student of the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics who was almost killed by Russian missiles after being evacuated to Liubotyn. When Kateryna was in Germany, her apartment on Northern Saltivka burned down after a rocket hit the house.

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Russia demands 18-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity human rights activism in occupied Crimea

Russia is clearly determined to show that human rights defence in occupied Crimea is a swift and guaranteed road to prison

• The right to a fair trial

ECHR finds Ukraine in violation over life prisoner tortured into confessing to somebody else’s crime

The European Court of Human Rights has found Ukraine in violation of the prohibition against torture over its failure to properly investigate allegations that Mykola Slyvotskyy was tortured into ‘confessing’ to two murders

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB ‘investigator’ involved in Crimean political persecution foiled by CCTV footage

37-year-old Crimean Tatar Edem Murtazaev was taken away by the FSB in Russian-occupied Crimea after a ‘search’ of his home in Sudak in the evening of 6 March

• The right to life   • Freedom of conscience and religion

UN Committee orders Russia to refrain from killing second Crimean Tatar political prisoner in one month

Failure to comply will almost certainly result in the death of civic journalist Amet Suleimanov less than a month after Russia tortured Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death

• War crimes

Kharkiv ‘refugee’ held prisoner in psychiatric hospital for refusing Russian citizenship

A Ukrainian woman from Kharkiv has been returned to Ukraine after being effectively held prisoner in Russia for ten months in two psychiatric hospitals because she refused to accept Russian citizenship

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