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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’

• War crimes

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.

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Russia teaches Mariupol children to shoot and to hate Ukraine

The Mariupol City Council has posted photos from a so-called ‘children’s camp’ in Melekino, near Mariupol, and accuses the invaders of using Nazi methods and “trying to turn Mariupol children into Hitlerjugend”

• Events

Those who unleashed this war will not go to Heaven. Anti-War activities In Russia, 7-14 August 2022

St Petersburg priest Father Ioann Kurmoyarov has been held in custody since 9 June. “The blessed peace-makers will end up in Heaven,” he said. “you understand what I’m saying? The peace-makers. Those who unleashed this aggression will not be going there.”

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘In a panic, people abandoned their bed-ridden relatives.’ А resident of Mariupol story about how people were coerced to leave for Russia

Andriy Potayenko, a 47-year-old engineer left Mariupol on 24 March. During that month he saw tanks shooting at a kindergarten and residential buildings and even quarreled with the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) fighters.

• War crimes

Russia effectively admits to using Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as a military base

Russia’s Rosgvardia fighters have reported ‘detaining’ more employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and have effectively acknowledged, against Russia’s own denials, that the invading state is using the nuclear plant as a military base

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

New armed searches and arrests in Russian-occupied Crimea for reading the Bible

The Russian FSB carried out new armed searches of the homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses on 24 August, with two believers – 53-year-old Viktor Kudinov and Serhiy Zhygalov (51) taken into custody

• Politics

Conflicting values and conflicting narratives: the case of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Putin’s war in Europe against democratic values is only the first wide scale assault on the West. The great dictatorial and conquering empires of the past are waking up in Moscow, Istanbul and Beijing.

• War crimes

Abducted Kherson woman likely imprisoned and tortured by Russian FSB

Iryna Horobtsova is almost certainly held by the Russian FSB, with the latter accusing a Ukrainian citizen of obstructing Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukrainian territory.

• War crimes

Russia has killed hundreds of civilians in Ukraine with banned cluster munitions

Due to Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine was the only country in the world where cluster munitions were being used in August 2022, with Russia using them widely in densely populated areas

• War crimes

Ukrainian POWs threatened with execution if they won’t blame Ukraine for Russia’s bombing of Mariupol

Long before the horrific explosion at Olenivka that killed 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russia had used claims that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were bombing the prison as part of their psychological pressure on the POWs.