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• 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.

• War crimes

Russian propaganda media and ex-President guilty of direct incitement to genocide in Ukraine, report finds

An important study carried out for Verstka Media provides a damning assessment and chilling examples of the Russian media's "direct and public incitement to genocide" against Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘In Sloviansk, we watched out of the window as people held up the train tracks with crowbars so we could pass through’

An inhabitant of a village burned to the ground was evacuated from Kramatorsk one day before the tragedy at the train station.

• War crimes

Men in occupied Donbas forcibly mobilized to die on the frontline

Russia is intensifying its efforts to mobilize any males in occupied parts of Ukraine, with men from occupied parts of the Luhansk oblast sent to the frontline, regardless of their age, state of health or number of childre

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

Russian invaders abduct Ukrainians in large numbers for grotesque ‘international terrorism trials’

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there has been a huge increase in abductions, with many of those who disappear after being seized in Kherson or Zaporizhzhia oblasts later proving to be imprisoned in occupied Crimea.

• Voices of war   • Interview

She was about to turn 53. A citizen of Trostianets speaks about his wife’s detention and murder

Ihor Ivanov, an ethnic Bashkir who lives in Trostyanets, still cannot believe that his wife is no more. He did not want to leave the city during the occupation because he hoped she would return.

• War crimes

Russia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children is genocide with identifiable perpetrators

Ukrainian human rights groups have monitored Russia’s kidnapping of children from occupied parts of Ukraine and are in no doubt that such enforced deportation and attempts to turn Ukrainian children into ‘Russians’ are acts of genocide.

• War crimes

90% of teachers in occupied Melitopol refuse to collaborate with Russian invaders

Russia has been forced to bring in 'teachers' from Dagestan to implement its propaganda in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Five people were killed, including a pregnant woman,’ Kharkiv resident says

Kharkiv resident Kateryna Ryndych talks about the bombing of Northern Saltivka.

• War crimes   • Research

270 days of full-scale Russia-Ukraine war in the Kharkiv Region

In this article, we publish a summary of the events that took place in the Kharkiv Region during the first 270 days of the full-scale Russia-Ukraine war (February 24 - November 20, 2022) and were documented by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in the “T4P” initiative database.