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• Voices of war • Interview

‘You walk along the roads — and the shells stick out from the ground like tulips’

Iryna Korniichuk lived in Lysychansk. She saw Severodonetsk shelled and looked for food and medicine. She lost friends and almost lost her children — the dog saved them.

Russian media abet Putin regime in calling parts of Ukraine ‘new Russian territory’ and abducted Ukrainians – ‘terrorists’

Russia's abduction of Ukrainians from Melitopol and even the grotesque 'trial' about to begin may be no surprise, but it is frustrating when once reputable Russian publications like Kommersant help to turn facts on their head

Russian paratrooper goes on trial in Ukraine for alleged war crimes in Kyiv oblast

33-year-old Pskov paratrooper, Andrei Medvedev admits to one episode where a civilian was subjected to mock executions but denies others

• Voices of war • Interview

They refused to cooperate with the invaders in Vovchansk

Oleksandr Skrypnichenko, a Vovchansk city council member, and his wife Nataliia refused to work with the Russians. A married couple tells about searches, life under occupation, and emotions on the day the north of Kharkiv Region was liberated.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘People melted snow and trapped pigeons’, — Mariupol resident’s story

A resident of Mariupol, Serhii is one of those who survived the city's tragedy. He witnessed the bombing of civilian objects, a humanitarian catastrophe, and graves in the yards of residential buildings. He says the Russians are building on the city's outskirts to divert attention, and the city lies in ruins.

Abducted Kherson woman held for a year without a lawyer ‘to protect Russian state secrets’

Iryna Horobtsova has been held in isolation, with no sign that Russia is accusing her of anything except opposing their invasion of her country

Terror methods against Ukrainians who don't 'renounce their citizenship' in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine

The new presidential decree envisages police checks and reports to Russia's FSB

Young Crimean Tatar held hostage in Russia after trying to visit her gravely ill father in occupied Crimea

Russian officials have fabricated one administrative arrest after another to keep 25-year-old Leniye Umerova imprisoned, and there are fears that they may be planning to concoct criminal charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lawyers on Russian FSB hitlist for defending Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Rustem Kyamilev and his wife, Lilia Hemedzhy are not alone in seeing Russia’s FSB as behind this new act of repression against independent lawyers in occupied Crimea, with the role played by the ‘Crimean Bar Association’ particularly disturbing

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea • Events

Russia plans life sentences for charges used against Ukrainian political prisoners and opponents of its war in Ukraine

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist could lose hearing because of Russian brutal torment

As well as failing to provide proper treatment, a Russian occupation ‘court’ has also prevented Iryna Danilovych from preparing for the appeal hearing against a manifestly unjust sentence

Russian-controlled Donbas militants who tortured and murdered 16-year-old Stepan Chubenko for loving Ukraine ‘detained’

If the men’s guilt is not in doubt, there are question marks over the motives for their arrest now, since then men were detained by the Russian proxy 'republic', after Russia actively obstructed earlier attempts to bring Vadim Pogodin to justice

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