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• 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

Despite Russia admitting to terrorism against Ukraine, OSCE will not expel it

A top Kremlin official has effectively stated that Russia will continue bombing Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and killing civilians until Kyiv agrees to its demands

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lecturer beaten, ‘tried’ and imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea for a Ukrainian patriotic song

Andriy Bielozierov, who had already lost his post as lecturer at the Bilohirsk Technical College for another Ukrainian song, was first beaten by the Russian-controlled ‘officers’ who came for him, and then imprisoned for 14 days

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

Savage sentences against Crimean Tatar journalists for reporting on Russia’s ‘state terrorism’ in occupied Crimea

A Russian court has handed down 13-14-year sentences against three civic journalists and two activists taken prisoner in Russia’s most ferocious and internationally condemned attack to date on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement.

Russian torture was particularly savage in Kherson oblast, with even teenagers imprisoned

Young lads, some who looked no older than 14, were imprisoned, in one case for ripping down a Russian flag

Ukraine accuses Russia of #Makiivka perfidy through simulated surrender

While Russia is claiming that Ukraine killed prisoners of war who had surrendered, this is not borne out by video footage

• Freedom of expression

Russian FSB officer charged over unlawful detention and torture of Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko

Denis Korovin is believed to have been the FSB officer who seized and savagely tortured Vladyslav Yesypenko

Russia forces Mariupol children to knit socks for soldiers in Ukraine to kill Ukrainians

While Mariupol residents continue to freeze because of Russia’s destruction of their homes, children are being forced to knit warm things for the soldiers killing their compatriots

Eight months of abductions and torture, as Russia’s terrorism intensifies at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

There have again been attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, while many of those from the plant and neighbouring Enerhodar, like Deputy Mayor Ivan Samoidiuk held hostage

Russia left a trail of mined kindergartens and torture chambers in Kharkiv oblast

After Ukraine’s Armed Forces drive the Russians out of any populated area, they discover that the retreating invaders have left mines in kindergartens, in playgrounds and in people’s homes.

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