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‘Guilty’ of being Ukrainian: Teacher abducted by the Russian invaders and held incommunicado for six months

Ukrainian teacher Viktoria Andrusha and other civilian hostages and POWs were forced to sing the Russian national anthem every day, threatened with having their heads shaved and, in many cases, subjected to physical reprisals

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar pensioner detained for calling Russia a fascist state on Facebook

67-year-old Asiye Chapukh was taken away and later prosecuted on charges, among others, of 'discrediting the Russian armed forces'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

20-year-old Crimean Tatar ‘arrested’ on grotesque charges three months after Russian occupiers abducted him

It is very likely that Appaz Kurtamet was subjected to torture during the months in which he was held incommunicado

Russian criminals serving huge sentences ‘pardoned’ and freed after fighting against Ukraine

Russian criminals, at least two of whom were serving long sentences for grave crimes, have been freed after taking part in Russia’s war against Ukraine

• Voices of war • Interview

"Did the Chechens cut your heads? No? We will do it..."

“The children were also wounded: a piece of flash the size of a child's hand was torn from the boy's back and her daughter's head was cut very badly to the bone,” as a well-known Mariupol photographer managed to escape and evacuate the children.

Putin admits Russia is deliberately bombing Ukrainian energy infrastructure, playgrounds and apartments out of revenge

In two days Russian missiles have hit around 30% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, as well as a playground, educational and medical institutions and other clear civilian objects

While bombing Zaporizhzhia, the invaders announce plans to take Ukrainian children to Russia for ‘rehabilitation’

Russia’s pretend ‘concern’ about the welfare of Ukrainian children comes soon after it bombed a humanitarian convoy and amid savage bombing of residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia

Russia forcibly mobilizes Ukrainian men in occupied Melitopol and deports women for patriotism

The Russian invaders are forcibly deporting Ukrainians from their homes in occupied parts of the Zaporizhzhia oblast for as little as a T-shirt with the Ukrainian flag

Hours after Memorial receives Nobel Peace Prize, Russia seizes its property for supposed ‘destructive activities’

Memorial’s so-called ‘destructive activities’ are precisely those for which it received the Nobel Peace Prize, and include its open opposition to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to six years for 'threatening state security' by discussing the Bible

It was claimed that, by reading and discussing religious literature, the defendants had “committed a grave crime against the constitutional order and the security of the state”.

Bodies of more tortured victims and Russian torture chambers found in liberated parts of Kharkiv oblast

This brings to at least twenty the number of Russian prisons / torture chambers which have come to light since the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated the area in early September.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘They were trying to kill me, but I wasn't killed.’ — a story of a woman who saw the airstrike on the Drama Theater in Mariupol

52 years old Liudmyla and her dog Best have lost their home for the second time. They left Mariupol a day after the attack on the Drama Theatre. The next day their house was also destroyed.

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