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Invaders stage fake referendum so they can accuse Ukraine of ‘invading Russia’

Russia’s ruling party is using fake ‘help centres’ in parts of Ukraine seized by the Russian army to facilitate the rigging of pseudo ‘referendums’ on Russian annexation of further Ukrainian territory

• War crimes

Chief Kremlin propagandist calls Russia’s killing of elderly civilians – Hero of Ukraine Oleksiy Vadatursky and his wife - 'denazification in action'

The initial response to Russia’s killing of Oleksiy Vadatursky and his elderly wife, from Margarita Simonyan, one of the Kremlin’s main propaganda mouthpieces was both shocking and highly incriminating.

• Penal institutions

The application practice of Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine proves that this Article should be canceled

Article 391 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, both by its essence and by the practice of its application, does not correspond to the basic democratic principles and the principles of criminal law and is used in most cases as a tool of pressure and reprisals against disobedient prisoners.

• War crimes

Russian horrific castration of Ukrainian POW was about terror and preventing own soldiers from surrendering

A Russian tweet demanding the ‘humiliating death’ of Azov defenders raises suspicions over the killing of 53 Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka, shortly after Russian propagandists showed a Ukrainian prisoner being castrated

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

Russian FSB threaten and beat imprisoned Crimean journalist and human rights defender Iryna Danilovych

The Russian FSB who abducted and tortured Iryna Danilovych in April this year see no need to deny that the charges used to imprison the Crimean civic journalist, nurse and rights defender are fabricated. Quite the contrary

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I don’t want to see them in the dock. I want to see them dead,’ a man from the Mariupol Drama Theatre says

​​​​​​​Vadym Zabolotny escaped from Donetsk after 2014 and moved to Lviv. Then he settled in Mariupol on the Azov Sea coast. Recent events have forced him to return to West Ukraine. Today the 59-year-old doctor works as a volunteer, helping his country to win the war.

• Events

2,500 kms on Foot to Protest against the War. Anti-war Activities in Russia, 17-26 July 2022

Hardly any anti-war protest takes place in Russia today without harassment or prosecution by the country’s law-enforcement agencies. Protestors are fined under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code; they are charged under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code (up to 15 years imprisonment); or they may be sent, like Maria Ponomarenko of Barnaul (south Siberia), for psychiatric assessment.

• War crimes   • Research

The First 150 Days of the Full-Scale War in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv Region

Incidents in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region recorded by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group during the first 150 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24 – July 23, 2022).

• Children’s rights   • War crimes

Invaders threaten to take children away if parents don’t send them to be indoctrinated ‘to love Russia’

Russia is speeding up attempts to impose ‘education’ according to a Russian curriculum and Russian narrative about its war against Ukraine by 1 September

• War crimes

Russian prisoners offered big money and ‘amnesty’ to kill for Russia in Ukraine

Russia us now using the notorious ‘Wagner’ private military company to go around prison colonies and recruit prisoners, including those convicted of murder or other violent crimes, to kill Ukrainians for Russia.

• Events

“Let’s Fight the Propaganda Together” Anti-war Activities in Russia, 9-16 July 2022

One can be arrested for saying “No to the War'' or “Peace will triumph!” in Russia. Even the words “special operation” in inverted commas is a crime.

• Voices of war   • Interview

“All the Buildings on our Street were Destroyed” (Rubizhne resident)

Taras Viychuk interviews Kyrylo Kutsenko from Rubizhne. He witnessed the battles for Rubizhne twice. In 2014, the city stood up. In 2022, the enemy completely destroyed it.