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Russians threatened to kill abducted Crimean Tatar’s family if he didn’t sign fake ‘confession’

Rustem Osmanov was abducted by the Russian invaders from his home in Kherson oblast in April this year and illegally taken to occupied Crimea where a kangaroo ‘court’ sentenced him to six years on absurd charges

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My husband and son were injured during an airstrike’

As a result of the airstrike, Iryna’s husband and a two-year-old son were injured. Their apartment was destroyed. But she wants to live in Borodianka and hopes to earn money for new housing.

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Russia demolishes Mariupol Drama Theatre to try to blame Ukraine for its most heinous war crime

There is every reason to believe that Russia knew it would kill children and other civilians when it bombed Mariupol’s Drama Theatre back in March and that it is now seeking to eliminate all evidence

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Four Russian invaders sentenced to 11 years for torturing hostages in Kharkiv oblast

Four Russians, two of them from a Russian military intelligence [GRU] special forces unit, have been sentenced to 11 years for abducting Ukrainians in Kharkiv oblast and torturing them

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘For all the evil they have done, they will be held accountable before God!’

Despite the persuasions of the children, a couple of pensioners from Borodianka refused to evacuate. They survived the air raids and saw the helicopters flying low overhead. Then, one day, Russians broke into their yard and began an interrogation.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I fell face down in the glass and covered my head with my hands’

We met with Halyna Khoroshchak in her apartment in Borodianka, which was destroyed by air strikes. With tears in her eyes, the woman spoke about how the Russians dropped bombs on residential buildings, shot civilians, and looted.

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The KHPG receives half of Memorial’s Nobel, and will give the money to the victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

International Memorial’s board decided to provide the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group with half of its Peace Prize, as KHPG is the only operating branch of Memorial in Ukraine. The entire amount will be allocated to the victims of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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Belarusian rail partisan sentenced to 16 years for obstructing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

A ‘court’ in Belarus has sentenced Vitaliy Melnik to 16 years’ harsh regime imprisonment in reprisal for the Belarusian’s role in obstructing Russia’s attempt to seize Kyiv.

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Brutal torment of young Mariupol woman imprisoned at Olenivka ‘concentration camp’ and in Russia

Mariupol resident Mariana Checheliuk will be turning 23 on 5 January 2023 with her parents and younger sister not even certain where the Russia are imprisoning her

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘There were more than five thousand of us in the shelter’ — account of the first war days in Mariupol

When the war began, servicewoman Valeriia Krokis was eight months pregnant. She lost contact with her husband, who went to serve. Nevertheless, she managed to escape the occupation, give birth to a child in Lviv, and reunite with her husband, who was wounded at the front.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences young Ukrainian to 12 years on surreal charge of ‘state treason’

A 24-year-old Ukrainian from occupied Sevastopol has become the latest victim of Russia’s ‘Ukrainian spy’ mania’ to receive a huge (12-year) sentence for mystery ‘spying’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

In Memory: Hennadiy Afanasiev

Hennadiy Afanasiev, former Kremlin hostage and civic activist has been killed while defending Ukraine. Oleh Sentsov, fellow Crimean, former political prisoner, responded to the news with the words “Eternal Glory to a Hero”.