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Teenagers hunted on occupied territory as cannon fodder for Russia’s war against Ukraine

The Russians are preventing 16-17-year-olds from leaving occupied territory, with the invaders clearly just waiting for them to turn 18 when they can be ‘forced to volunteer’ to fight.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia outlaws CrimeaSOS as ‘undesirable’ for reporting its violations in occupied Crimea

Russia’s Prosecutor General has declared CrimeaSOS ‘undesirable’ in Russia and occupied Crimea, claiming that it “poses a threat to the Russian Federation’s constitutional order and security”.

• Voices of war   • Interview

War is not a sprint but a marathon

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembytska interviews Ukrainians who had to flee the war. To preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Here is her conversation with a resident of Vyshhorod, who stayed in the city to protect it.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia flouts UN order and begins carrying out death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist

A week after it took over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council, Russia has flouted the express order of the UN’s Committee against Torture and set about killing the second Crimean Tatar political prisoner in two months

• Voices of war   • Interview

The Russians shot far and wide and destroyed children’s boarding school

According to the city council, during the year of the war, Russian troops damaged and destroyed 111 infrastructure facilities in Kramatorsk, including schools, kindergartens, and other educational institutions. Volodymyr Savchenko, a resident of the city, witnessed these events.

• War crimes

Putin ally under international arrest warrant admits that Russia stopped Mariupol child from returning to Ukraine

Lvova-Belova, who is already wanted by the International Criminal Court for illegally deporting Ukrainian children, has now admitted that a 17-year-old “was caught on the border” when he tried to return home to Ukraine

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar political prisoner to 11 years for free thinking and civic activism

The charges against recognized Crimean Tatar political prisoner Vadim Bektemirov were based solely on the ‘testimony’ of fake secret witnesses and on a tape in which he expressed his opinion

• Voices of war   • Interview

The year of the Mariupol Drama Theatre: a look from inside

Liliia Mykhailiuk, along with her family, survived the airstrike. Her six-person group was in different parts of the Drama Theater building on the morning of 16 March 2022, and everyone managed to get out alive. We publish her account on the anniversary of the tragedy.

• War crimes

Kherson defender tortured for Russian propaganda, then hidden for over a year

It is now over a year since the Russian invaders of Kherson seized Andriy Horshkov, yet his family have no idea where he is being held

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is risking the life of imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist on hunger strike

Iryna Danilovych has been on full hunger strike for ten days, yet the prison authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea are refusing to hospitalize her and provide urgently needed medical care.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘It was like people fleeing a tornado...’

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembytska interviews Ukrainians who had to flee the war. To preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Children from the intensive care unit still connected to machines were lowered into the basement’

At the beginning of the war, a resident of Lysychansk, Yuliia, together with her son, hid from the Russian bombing in the basement of the hospital. But the atmosphere in the city was heating up: bombardments intensified, and food and medicines disappeared. Finally, her house was destroyed, and the Russian military settled in her father's house.