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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian political prisoner’s sentence increased for contempt of Russian kangaroo court

The additional punishment is especially cynical as it was imposed because of Oleh Prykhodko’s insults directed at two FSB officers directly involved in the brazen fabrication of criminal charges against him.

• Voices of war   • Interview

A cemetery in the garden, looting, and drunken soldiers: Borodianka resident on Russian occupation

Tetiana Klihunova and her family survived the occupation in the village of Borodianka. She had to communicate with the Russian military and bury her neighbors in the garden. She confesses that household chores saved her.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean lecturer faces 5-year sentence for writing about Russia’s killing of innocent civilians in Ukraine

Andriy Bielozierov is under house arrest in occupied Crimea, facing preposterous criminal charges of ‘discrediting the Russian army’, although it is Moscow and its soldiers who discredit Russia by bombing and killing civilians

• War crimes

69-year-old Kharkiv region blogger tortured with electric shocks for answering his Russian captors in Ukrainian

69-year-old Anatoliy Harahatyy was held prisoner in intolerable conditions for 100 days, during which time the Russians tortured him and threatened to execute him if he did not agree to collaborate

• Events

Spontaneous Memorial on Ukrainsky Boulevard – Digest of Russian Protests

After a Russian missile hit an apartment block in Dnipro, killing over 45 civilians, including 6 children, Muscovites began bringing flowers and children’s toys to the monument to the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I knew people who died in the basements of Borodianka…’

A resident of Borodianka, Valentyna Torhonska, was hiding with other people in the basement when a shell exploded near her house. In her declining years, she is homeless and doesn’t know how to continue her life.

• War crimes

Russian invaders torture and 'deport' Ukrainians for ‘extremist’ suport for Ukraine in Zaporizhzhia oblast

According to the Mayor of Melitopol, the Russians forced to retreat from Kherson oblast to occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast “are behaving like animals”, abducting and raping civilians

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia persecutes Crimean Tatars, destroys their heritage because they expose the lies about its annexation of Crimea

Russia’s destruction of the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai has reached tragic proportions with a monument of huge historical and cultural significance for Crimean Tatars and for Ukraine being turned into a shoddily renovated ‘new-build’

• War crimes

FSB bans the last Ukrainian charity providing humanitarian aid in Russian-occupied Melitopol

Russia’s FSB have raided the last functioning charity in occupied Melitopol, leaving elderly, disabled and other vulnerable Melitopol residents without the humanitarian aid they need to survive

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia abducts and imprisons Crimean Tatar, then tries to mobilize him for its war against Ukraine

The prison in Russia where Ruslan Osmanov is illegally imprisoned is trying to force him to accept Russian citizenship and fight against his own country

• War crimes

"Ukraine must suffer" - Kremlin propagandist gloats over Russia’s murderous missile attack on Dnipro tower block

Russian propagandist Sergei Mardan has openly spoken of ‘pleasure’ at Russia’s missile attack on an apartment block in Dnipro that killed at least forty Ukrainians, including three children

• On refugees

Ukraine orders deportation of ethnic Ukrainian facing persecution in Russia for opposing Putin and the war

Ukraine’s Migration Service first stripped Roman of his Ukrainian citizenship and is now trying to forcibly deport him, although he faces near certain arrest in Russia