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• Voices of war • Interview

One gun against a pack of invaders: Olena Kratkovska on her father’s death

Olena’s father died on the seventh day of the war, defending his house in the village of Yahidne. He was a pensioner, but when the Russian invaders entered the village, he picked up a hunting rifle and went against the enemy.

Ukrainian works of literature and history banned as ‘extremist’ in Russian occupied Luhansk oblast

The list, probably drawn up in Moscow, prohibits all works on Holodomor and Ukrainian history in general, world-renowned writers, and even comics

Russia opens new prison for Ukrainian political prisoners abducted from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

This new prison is controlled by Russia’s FSB who have nine years’ experience of torturing Ukrainians and fabricating prosecutions with total impunity

• Voices of war • Interview

Russians kept residents of the Chernihiv Region in the basement for a month

Unfortunately, not everyone came out of the basement when the Ukrainian army de-occupied the village. The Russians allowed women to go outside only once on 8 March, this was the way to congratulate them on International Women’s Day.

Poetry and Flowers Against the War – Digest of Russian Protests

‘I thought / that I was / a Russian / but this maniac / appears to also / think he is.’ The January issue of the Samara literature journal ‘Volga’ published anti-war poetry by German Lukomnikov.

Vital ECHR judgement opens way for Russia to be held accountable for MH17 and other war crimes in Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights has demolished Russia’s narrative about a ‘civil war in Ukraine’ and found that occupied Donbas was under Russian jurisdiction from May 2014

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Mass detentions in occupied Crimea as Russia openly terrorizes Crimean Tatars

33 Crimean Tatars, including a 17-year-old lad and at least two people with serious health issues were detained by enforcement officers in occupied Crimea on 25 January because they had tried to attend a politically motivated ‘court’ hearing

• Voices of war • Interview

This teacher stayed behind in occupied Borodianka

“I couldn’t leave my dog,” says Nataliia from Borodianka. One day, eight Russian soldiers entered their house and began looking for the “Nazis”. According to Nataliia, they did not understand that no one was expecting such “liberators”.

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

Russia unleashes new wave of terror and arrests of Crimean Tatars in occupied Crimea

Russia’s FSB have staged another round of armed ‘searches’ in occupied Crimea, with six Crimean Tatars, including a 67-year-old, detained and even denied access to their chosen lawyers

Ukrainian civilians disappear without trace after the Russians claim to have ‘humanely deported’ them

Larysa Dolya has not been seen since fighters linked with the notorious Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov turned up at her home in Zaporizhzhia oblast, on 11 January and took her away. She is one of very many civilians seized by the Russians

• Voices of war • Interview

110 days in a dungeon: torture in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Region

Vadym Kutsenko served in Ukrainian Army and resigned before the end of 2021. In February, he came to Kupiansk on business, and found himself caught up in the Russian invasion. Someone informed on him, and he ended up in the infamous Kupiansk detention center.

Russia imports its own ‘judges’ to occupied Ukraine while planning 'legal carte blanche' for its atrocities

While Germany cites fear of ‘escalation of the conflict’ to justify its refusal to help Ukraine drive out the aggressor state, Russia has already begun forcibly integrating occupied Ukrainian territory

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