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Ukraine accuses Russia of #Makiivka perfidy through simulated surrender

While Russia is claiming that Ukraine killed prisoners of war who had surrendered, this is not borne out by video footage

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Russian FSB officer charged over unlawful detention and torture of Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko

Denis Korovin is believed to have been the FSB officer who seized and savagely tortured Vladyslav Yesypenko

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Russia forces Mariupol children to knit socks for soldiers in Ukraine to kill Ukrainians

While Mariupol residents continue to freeze because of Russia’s destruction of their homes, children are being forced to knit warm things for the soldiers killing their compatriots

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Eight months of abductions and torture, as Russia’s terrorism intensifies at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

There have again been attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, while many of those from the plant and neighbouring Enerhodar, like Deputy Mayor Ivan Samoidiuk held hostage

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Russia left a trail of mined kindergartens and torture chambers in Kharkiv oblast

After Ukraine’s Armed Forces drive the Russians out of any populated area, they discover that the retreating invaders have left mines in kindergartens, in playgrounds and in people’s homes. 

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

Ukrainian civic journalist faces 8-year sentence for exposing healthcare lies in occupied Crimea

Iryna Danilovych's abduction, disappearance and evidently trumped-up charges demonstate the FSB’s certainty that they can commit any infringements and rights violations with impunity.

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Three life sentences and confirmation that Russia should be on trial for the shooting down of MH17

The District Court of the Hague has convicted three of four men on trial over the shooting down of Malaysian airliner MH17 over occupied Donbas on 17 July 2014 and has accepted that Russia was in overall control

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63 bodies of Ukrainians tortured by Russians already found in liberated Kherson oblast

11 places have already been found in liberated parts of Kherson oblast, where the Russian occupiers held Ukrainian civilians prisoner

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia seeks 18-year sentence in conveyor belt ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar Crimean Solidarity activist

A Russian prosecutor has demanded an 18-year sentence against Marlen Mustafayev, a civic activist who had previously faced persecution for protesting against the politically motivated prosecutions of other Crimean Tatars

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My mom wanted to take poison, but she learned from a letter that we were alive.’ The story of a doctor from Mariupol, part 2

“After leaving Mariupol, we listened for 10 minutes to the birds singing and the grass rustling, and then we cried for a long time,” recalls children's doctor Hanna Shevchyk.

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UN demands Russia pays Ukraine reparations as probe into Kherson war crimes begins

The UN resolution comes after eight months of deliberate and massive damage to entire Ukrainian regions, to critical infrastructure and the environment, as well as a huge death toll

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No end to Russia’s brutal reprisals against imprisoned 66-year-old historian of the Soviet Terror

Yury Dmitriev, world-renowned Russian historian, head of the Karelia branch of the Memorial Society and political prisoner, is spending his fourth term in a punishment cell in the space of just two months