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Statement concerning HRW report on the use of landmines in Ukraine

We are convinced that posting of such a report may bring more significant harm than benefits. We attempted to stop this by contacting HRW. However, our efforts were in vain.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

'Lawyer' who collaborated with Russian FSB's torture of Crimean Tatar political prisoners faces disciplinary proceedings

Oleg Glushko simply watched on while the men he should have been representing were tortured by the FSB and actively took part in getting them to give false testimony

Russia deports Ukrainian children to orphanage in occupied Crimea condemned as a ‘concentration camp’

An independent Russian website has tracked down fourteen very small children abducted from Kherson while it was under Russian occupation and passed to a children’s home in occupied Crimea which was described in 2020 as “a children’s concentration camp”.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘If I am to die, then only in my homeland’ (Izium resident Tamara Shehin)

Volunteer of the Red Cross of Ukraine — Tamara Shehin spent four months in the occupied Izium. She talks about how the Russians dropped cluster bombs on the city, shot down cars, and tormented people.

Over 400 victims of Russian aggression remain unidentified in liberated Kharkiv oblast

The bodies of victims continue to be found, including those of nine people killed when the Russians opened fire on two evacuation buses near Borova in Kharkiv oblast

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

Russia demands 18-year sentence for blind and disabled Ukrainian political prisoner on grotesque ‘terrorism’ charges

The Russian prosecution is claiming that blind and disabled Oleksandr Sizikov, together with Seiran Khairedinov and Alim Sufianov ‘sought to violently overthrow the Russian constitutional order” through religious and political discussions

• Voices of war • Interview

‘When we saw planes, we fell to the ground’ (Moshchun resident Viktor Naimybutko)

We met 78-year-old Viktor on the ruins of his private house in Moschun in the Kyiv Region. For many years he has been equipping his dwelling, which was destroyed instantly by an artillery shell when the Russian troops went toward Kyiv in March 2022.

• 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.

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