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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘There were more than five thousand of us in the shelter’ — account of the first war days in Mariupol

When the war began, servicewoman Valeriia Krokis was eight months pregnant. She lost contact with her husband, who went to serve. Nevertheless, she managed to escape the occupation, give birth to a child in Lviv, and reunite with her husband, who was wounded at the front.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences young Ukrainian to 12 years on surreal charge of ‘state treason’

A 24-year-old Ukrainian from occupied Sevastopol has become the latest victim of Russia’s ‘Ukrainian spy’ mania’ to receive a huge (12-year) sentence for mystery ‘spying’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

In Memory: Hennadiy Afanasiev

Hennadiy Afanasiev, former Kremlin hostage and civic activist has been killed while defending Ukraine. Oleh Sentsov, fellow Crimean, former political prisoner, responded to the news with the words “Eternal Glory to a Hero”. 

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Terror by family against Crimean Tatars in Russian-occupied Crimea

The Russian FSB have staged new armed searches and effective abductions in occupied Crimea, with the targets on 19 December three Crimean Tatar brothers

• Freedom of expression   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian civic journalist was ‘voluntarily’ abducted, asphyxiated and beaten by Russian FSB

The FSB who abducted, tortured and threatened to kill Iryna Danilovych claim that she ‘voluntarily’ remained in their basement, and was perfectly ‘comfortable’ in near-hotel conditions

• War crimes

Moscow tries to justify its war crimes in Ukraine by glorifying its soldiers as ‘heroes of Russia’

Russian schools, sports clubs and even streets are increasingly being named after soldiers who were killed while part of the army invading and ravaging Ukraine

• War crimes

Russian MP promises a child from Kyiv missiles as a 'New Year present'

Oleg Nilov's alleged ‘joke’ was almost certainly intended to amuse a Russian audience which is well aware of the bombs that Russia is using to deprive millions of Ukrainians of heating, electricity and water during freezing temperatures.

• War crimes

Russia plans huge propaganda New Year tree in Mariupol while residents freeze in bombed city

The proposed erection of a 20-metre New Year tree has been condemned by the real Mariupol City Council as “dancing on the bones” of all the civilians whom Russia killed this year.

• War crimes

Russian invaders abduct Melitopol lecturer in new wave of terror

Volodymyr Vorovka, an internationally known academic, is one of at least three Ukrainians seized by the Russian military in the last week

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

Unending torture of Crimean Tatar political prisoner for refusal to collaborate with Russia’s FSB

The pretexts for almost permanently holding Teymur Abdullayev in the horrific conditions of a Russian punishment cell are as fabricated as the charges that Russia used to sentence the recognized political prisoner to 17 years

• Events

Ukraine dissolves notorious Kyiv court recently implicated in Russia’s attempt to reinstall Yanukovych

The dissolution comes less than a month after a shocking report suggesting that judges of the court were implicated in Russia’s plans to conquer Ukraine and reinstall Viktor Yanukovych

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My brother and enfeebled mother were left in the middle of the street’ — stories from Izium

Olena’s mother died in Izium from anorexia. She could not leave the occupied territory despite numerous evacuation attempts. The lack of treatment and the indifferent attitude of the invaders and collaborators killed an aged woman.

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