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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Terror by family against Crimean Tatars in Russian-occupied Crimea

The Russian FSB have staged new armed searches and effective abductions in occupied Crimea, with the targets on 19 December three Crimean Tatar brothers

• Freedom of expression   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian civic journalist was ‘voluntarily’ abducted, asphyxiated and beaten by Russian FSB

The FSB who abducted, tortured and threatened to kill Iryna Danilovych claim that she ‘voluntarily’ remained in their basement, and was perfectly ‘comfortable’ in near-hotel conditions

• War crimes

Moscow tries to justify its war crimes in Ukraine by glorifying its soldiers as ‘heroes of Russia’

Russian schools, sports clubs and even streets are increasingly being named after soldiers who were killed while part of the army invading and ravaging Ukraine

• War crimes

Russian MP promises a child from Kyiv missiles as a 'New Year present'

Oleg Nilov's alleged ‘joke’ was almost certainly intended to amuse a Russian audience which is well aware of the bombs that Russia is using to deprive millions of Ukrainians of heating, electricity and water during freezing temperatures.

• War crimes

Russia plans huge propaganda New Year tree in Mariupol while residents freeze in bombed city

The proposed erection of a 20-metre New Year tree has been condemned by the real Mariupol City Council as “dancing on the bones” of all the civilians whom Russia killed this year.

• War crimes

Russian invaders abduct Melitopol lecturer in new wave of terror

Volodymyr Vorovka, an internationally known academic, is one of at least three Ukrainians seized by the Russian military in the last week

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

Unending torture of Crimean Tatar political prisoner for refusal to collaborate with Russia’s FSB

The pretexts for almost permanently holding Teymur Abdullayev in the horrific conditions of a Russian punishment cell are as fabricated as the charges that Russia used to sentence the recognized political prisoner to 17 years

• Events

Ukraine dissolves notorious Kyiv court recently implicated in Russia’s attempt to reinstall Yanukovych

The dissolution comes less than a month after a shocking report suggesting that judges of the court were implicated in Russia’s plans to conquer Ukraine and reinstall Viktor Yanukovych

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My brother and enfeebled mother were left in the middle of the street’ — stories from Izium

Olena’s mother died in Izium from anorexia. She could not leave the occupied territory despite numerous evacuation attempts. The lack of treatment and the indifferent attitude of the invaders and collaborators killed an aged woman.

• War crimes

Russian propaganda media and ex-President guilty of direct incitement to genocide in Ukraine, report finds

An important study carried out for Verstka Media provides a damning assessment and chilling examples of the Russian media's "direct and public incitement to genocide" against Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘In Sloviansk, we watched out of the window as people held up the train tracks with crowbars so we could pass through’

An inhabitant of a village burned to the ground was evacuated from Kramatorsk one day before the tragedy at the train station.

• War crimes

Men in occupied Donbas forcibly mobilized to die on the frontline

Russia is intensifying its efforts to mobilize any males in occupied parts of Ukraine, with men from occupied parts of the Luhansk oblast sent to the frontline, regardless of their age, state of health or number of childre