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Russia’s Luhansk proxies ‘sentence’ two OSCE employees to 13 years on grotesque treason charges

The spectacle was condemned by the OSCE as “nothing but pure political theatre… inhumane and repugnant

• War crimes

Izium Mass Graves: Tortured victims with bound hands and entire families killed by the Russian invaders

Demands are mounting for an international tribunal over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the growing evidence of mass war crimes

• Events

Valentin Vyhivsky: Eight years of torture in Russian captivity for being Ukrainian

It is exactly eight years since Russia’s FSB abducted Valentin Vyhivsky from occupied Crimea and took him to Moscow, where he was held incommunicado for around eight months and savagely tortured

• War crimes

Mass burial site at Izium, imprisoned teenagers and other Russian war crimes in Kharkiv oblast

Just days after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Balakliya, Kupiansk, Izium and other towns and villages, it is already clear that the Russians have left a trail of war crimes, and the bodies of tortured victims, throughout the Kharkiv oblast.

• War crimes

Abductions and feared mass grave of Russian invaders' victims in liberated Vysokopillia (Kherson oblast)

It is already clear that the Russians abducted and tortured residents, with the fate of at least twenty still unknown.

• Events

13-year sentence against Belarusian investigative journalist who helped expose crimes against Ukraine

Denis Ivashin played an important role in exposing the Russian fighters who first took part in Russia’s invasion of Crimea and Donbas and were later deployed to prop up the regime of Aleksander Lukashenka

• War crimes

Vovchansk Engineering Works: Dungeons on the Chechen Model

​​​​​​​On Sunday, 11 September, Vovchansk was one of dozens of towns and villages liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A month ago, Iryna Skachko described the use to which its largest factory was put during months of enemy occupation.

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

Multiple jail terms for a patriotic Ukrainian song at Crimean Tatar wedding in Russian-occupied Crimea

Many commentators believe that the occupation regime is reacting with hysteria and repression to Ukrainian patriotic songs ignored throughout the occupation because they understand that their days are named

• War crimes

Bodies of more civilians murdered by the Russians found in liberated Kharkiv oblast village

These are almost certainly the first of many war crimes still to be discovered, unlike Russia’s relentless bombing of civilian targets and its 11 September revenge attacks on power stations and other critical infrastructure

• War crimes

Russian invaders remove Ukrainian language and literature from schools

Documents uncovered after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Balakliya (Kharkiv oblast) show how the occupation regime swiftly took steps to remove the Ukrainian language and literature from schools

• War crimes

We are Russian citizens and are ashamed of the actions committed in our country’s name.

Statement by Oleg Orlov, Sergei Davidis, Co-Director of the Memorial Centre for the Defence of Human Rights regarding Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian power stations

• War crimes   • Announcements

Information about Russia’s war crimes is now available in seven languages

KHPG and other Ukrainian human rights NGOs are launching a website of the T4P war crimes initiative.