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Russian invaders abduct Ukrainians in large numbers for grotesque ‘international terrorism trials’

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there has been a huge increase in abductions, with many of those who disappear after being seized in Kherson or Zaporizhzhia oblasts later proving to be imprisoned in occupied Crimea.

• Voices of war   • Interview

She was about to turn 53. A citizen of Trostianets speaks about his wife’s detention and murder

Ihor Ivanov, an ethnic Bashkir who lives in Trostyanets, still cannot believe that his wife is no more. He did not want to leave the city during the occupation because he hoped she would return.

• War crimes

Russia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children is genocide with identifiable perpetrators

Ukrainian human rights groups have monitored Russia’s kidnapping of children from occupied parts of Ukraine and are in no doubt that such enforced deportation and attempts to turn Ukrainian children into ‘Russians’ are acts of genocide.

• War crimes

90% of teachers in occupied Melitopol refuse to collaborate with Russian invaders

Russia has been forced to bring in 'teachers' from Dagestan to implement its propaganda in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Five people were killed, including a pregnant woman,’ Kharkiv resident says

Kharkiv resident Kateryna Ryndych talks about the bombing of Northern Saltivka.

• War crimes   • Research

270 days of full-scale Russia-Ukraine war in the Kharkiv Region

In this article, we publish a summary of the events that took place in the Kharkiv Region during the first 270 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24 - November 20, 2022) and were documented by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in the “T4P” initiative database.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Grandpa was thrown 100 meters by the blast’ (Volodymyr Zaika, Moshchun resident)

Volodymyr Zaika is a resident of the village of Moshchun, Kyiv region. He says that only 5% of the houses in Moshchun remained intact.

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

Russia violates its own laws in murderous reprisals against Crimean Tatar human rights movement

Without a recognizable crime, huge sentences have been demanded that at least two of the men have essentially no chance of surviving.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘There was nothing left of the neighbor, only shoes...’

A resident of the Moshchun village in the Kyiv region tells about the horrors of the first war days.

• The right to a fair trial

ECHR slams Ukraine over detention which triggered anti-Roma riots in Odesa oblast

The European Court of Human Rights has found that Ukraine violated the rights of Myhailo Chebotar, a young man who has been in detention for over six years despite serious concerns about the charges against him

• War crimes

Russians imprisoned 14-year-old boy and girls in Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts

14-year-old Vitalik was held prisoner by the Russians for ten days. He was cold, hungry and, doubtless, very frightened, with the invaders of his Kherson oblast village threatening to take him to Russia ‘for trial’

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Responsibility for attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

Shelling of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was accompanied by statements of high-ranking Russian officials confirming that these sites were being targeted and admitting that such sites were part of the country’s civilian infrastructure.