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Even Kremlin supporters admit Russia has created ‘a humanitarian disaster zone’ in occupied Ukrainian cities

Residents of the Ukrainian cities in Donbas which Russia virtually razed to the ground while claiming to 'liberate' are facing humanitarian catastrophe this winter with Russian officials “incapable” of rebuilding what Russia has destroyed

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

New Russian conveyor belt of repression targets Crimean Tatars, other Ukrainians abducted from mainland Ukraine

More and more Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians are being put on ‘trial’ in occupied Crimea after being abducted by the Russian invaders from Kherson or Zaporizhzhia oblasts or from the administrative border between mainland Ukraine and Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘They shot at our feet, near us, and one guy was wounded with an electric shocker...’

The Russian military said, “Now there will be an execution here, take everything out of your jacket pockets and sit down,” — how the Russian military mocked the volunteers in the occupied Mariupol.

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Russian invaders abduct Kherson oblast local leader, install “worst of the worst” collaborators

Armed Russians burst into the home of Dmytro Liakhno, Head of the Hornostaiivka Hromada in Kherson oblast, in the morning of 3 August

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Admission of guilt: Russia blocks international investigation of Olenivka mass killing of Ukrainian POWs

Why are the International Committee of the Red Cross and UN doing next to nothing to effectively investigate the 29 July killing of around 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, held captive in Russian-occupied Donbas

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

Russia wants 64-year-old Crimean Tatar to die in prison for refusing to collaborate in occupied Crimea

Zekirya Muratov, a pensioner and former musician has Grade III disability status and numerous grave medical conditions which make the long sentence as formal as the cynical charges against him.

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Russia releases convicted mass murderer to fight in Ukraine, then awards him ‘for bravery’

Ivan Neparatov, leader of a Russian criminal gang, was serving 25 years for five murders and multiple other crimes when he was offered his freedom and money in exchange for fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted Crimean Tatar sentenced to five years in Russian-occupied Crimea on insane charges

A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Simferopol has sentenced 31-year-old Ruslan Abdurakhmanov to five years in a harsh regime prison colony on charges of staggering cynicism

• War crimes   • Research

Half a Year 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 180 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24–August 22, 2022).

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Russia plans special propaganda ‘lesson’ explaining to children in occupied Ukraine why the bombing of their cities is ‘liberation’

The aim of this 'lesson' of lies ais clearly to present war criminals as ‘heroes’ and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine as aimed at ‘liberation’

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Russian invaders plan ‘trial’ of abducted Ukrainian volunteer on charge of ‘international terrorism’

Yaroslav Zhuk, a volunteer from Melitopol has been imprisoned for well over two months, with the aggressor state now accusing him of ‘international terrorism’.

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

Instead of obeying UN Court, Russia fabricates show trial to label Crimean Tatar Mejlis ‘terrorist’

It is well over five years since Russia was expressly ordered by the UN’s International Court of Justice to revoke its extraordinary ban on the Mejlis, or self-governing body, of the Crimean Tatar people.