Menu
All publications

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We lost fifteen acquaintances who died in this war’

“The invasion of Russian troops was so swift that people did not immediately understand whose helicopters with the letter ‘V’ were circling over their heads,” — says Zaika Nadiia, a village Moshchun resident. A few days later, the village was bombarded with Grads [rockets].

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We walked around the mines and planted a vegetable garden’ — a story of a Moshchun resident

Mariia Mateitseva worked as a crane operator all her life. She and her husband built two houses in Moshchun with their own hands: for themselves and their daughter. Both homes were destroyed. Mariia now lives in a shack. She has nowhere to go.

• War crimes

Russian court passes suspended sentence against soldier for admitting to proven war crimes in Ukraine

(Updated) A military court in Khabarovsk has passed a suspended 5.5 year sentence against Russian soldier Daniil Frolkin in a case clearly intended to deter other soldiers from admitting to war crimes in Ukraine

• War crimes

Russia denies Ukrainian prisoners of war protected status, tortures out 'confessions' and then stages illegal ‘trials’

If Russia had real evidence of war crimes, and not ‘confessions’ extracted through torture, it would be openly holding such trials and not hiding behind its puppet ‘republics’

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The earth is calling, the house is calling. I want to go home’

Halyna Kononchuk lived in Sloviansk. When the war began, her sick mother was dying in her arms. Halyna had to bike many kilometers to find painkillers for her while at home, a disabled child was waiting.

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

New brutal sentence in Russia’s 'liquidation of dissenters' in occupied Crimea

Russia’s notorious Southern District Military Court has passed a huge sentence against 34-year-old Ametkhan Abdulvapov on the basis solely of an innocuous conversation seven years ago and implausible ‘testimony’ of an anonymous witness.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I realized that there’d be an apple tree, the sky, the sun, but I’d no longer be’

The eleven-year-old daughter of Yevheniia Savynska from the Chernihiv Region said these words. Numerous attacks forced the family to evacuate twice. Yevheniia admits that now she is most worried about the child's spirit.

• Constitution   • Research

Constitution of Ukraine: social contract in the trials of war

The modern motto of restoration of Ukraine must not be “another bourgeois republic” but genuine intellectual freedom and market to compete and truly strive for happiness.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Teachers, colleagues, neighbours face Soviet era denunciations for opposing war against Ukraine in occupied Crimea and Russia

Just as in the worst years of Soviet terror, it has become dangerous to openly speak of the crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine, or even shout ‘Glory to Ukraine’.

• Voices of war   • Interview

Wrecked cars often had ‘Children’ written on them

From the first days of the war, the city of Chernihiv was subject to severe bombardments by the Russian army. Oksana Shevel, who lived in the urban settlement of Kulykivka near Chernihiv, talks about the difficult humanitarian situation, columns of refugees, and work at the volunteer headquarters.

• War crimes

Russia intensifies terror against children and their parents in occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

Moscow is intent on inculcating ‘Russian world’ ideology in occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, and it needs children to receive maximum exposure to such propaganda at school

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

‘Court’ in occupied Crimea fines woman for ‘discrediting Russian army’ by video with Ukraine’s national anthem

A 20-year-old woman from Russian-occupied Crimea has been fined 50 thousand roubles for posting a video with Ukraine’s national anthem on social media