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Russia destroys the centre of Mariupol to conceal its war crimes while leaving residents to die of the cold

New Maxar satellite images show more graves in occupied Mariupol, and confirm that the Russians are destroying buildings, while building a military compound

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

Two Ukrainian believers sentenced to six years in Russian-occupied Crimea for a Zoom conversation about the Bible

The Russian-controlled Armiansk city ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has sentenced 62-year-old Oleksandr Lytvyniuk and Oleksandr Dubovenko (49) to six years’ imprisonment purely for practising their faith

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Sashko and Vasyl Vasylovych were killed during shelling, and Slavko and Mykola were shot by the Russians’

Mykola Andriiovych Kostenko lives in the village of Moshchun on Lesnaya Street. In March, there was absolute hell in these parts.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘At the plant in Volchansk, the Russians tortured even the priest with an electric shock’

We spoke with the deputy director of the aggregate plant, which used to be called the ‘concentration camp’ of Russians.

Russians deliberately beat Ukrainian haemophiliac, threaten to rape his 17-year-old sister in front of her father

The more Oleh Dyhalo from Kozacha Lopan pleaded with the invaders to not touch his son, as any bleeding could be fatal, the more the Russians beat the young man

Children trained to be ‘Putin’s faithful soldiers’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia began trying to get Ukrainian children to want to kill Ukrainians and defend the aggressor state from soon after its invasion of Crimea, but this is the first time that military training will be added to the ordinary school curriculum.

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

Russia sentences Crimean Solidarity activist to 17 years for defending political prisoners

A Russian court has sentenced Marlen Mustafayev to 17 years’ imprisonment on preposterous charges copy-pasted from another political trial initiated over three years ago.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Grandchildren cried and said they didn’t want to die’

Kharkiv resident Nadezhda Bratashevskaya recalls living with her husband in the basement for two months: “As you go for humanitarian aid, you keep praying to God. Then, you press against the wall until the shell flies by or explodes.”

Evangelical deacon and his son found murdered near Nova Kakhovka after being abducted by the Russians

The bodies have been found in a forest near Nova Kakhovka of Anatoliy Prokopchuk, an evangelical deacon and his son, Oleksandr.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I was afraid they would cripple me’

Svitlana Holovata’s house in Moshchun was destroyed. Everything burned down: the beds, wardrobes, all wooden furniture, and TV. She said she felt like there was nothing there before.

Ukrainian poet and writer Volodymyr Vakulenko killed after being seized by Russian invaders

A DNA test has confirmed that the body buried as ‘No. 319’ at the Izium mass burial site is that of Volodymyr Vakulenko

Russian invaders abduct two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests from Berdiansk and accuse them of ‘terrorism’

Two priests from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church have been abducted by the Russian invaders in Berdiansk (Zaporizhzhia oblast) with ominous indications that Russia is planning to stage a cynical show trial

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