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Russians deliberately beat Ukrainian haemophiliac, threaten to rape his 17-year-old sister in front of her father

The more Oleh Dyhalo from Kozacha Lopan pleaded with the invaders to not touch his son, as any bleeding could be fatal, the more the Russians beat the young man

Children trained to be ‘Putin’s faithful soldiers’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia began trying to get Ukrainian children to want to kill Ukrainians and defend the aggressor state from soon after its invasion of Crimea, but this is the first time that military training will be added to the ordinary school curriculum.

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

Russia sentences Crimean Solidarity activist to 17 years for defending political prisoners

A Russian court has sentenced Marlen Mustafayev to 17 years’ imprisonment on preposterous charges copy-pasted from another political trial initiated over three years ago.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Grandchildren cried and said they didn’t want to die’

Kharkiv resident Nadezhda Bratashevskaya recalls living with her husband in the basement for two months: “As you go for humanitarian aid, you keep praying to God. Then, you press against the wall until the shell flies by or explodes.”

Evangelical deacon and his son found murdered near Nova Kakhovka after being abducted by the Russians

The bodies have been found in a forest near Nova Kakhovka of Anatoliy Prokopchuk, an evangelical deacon and his son, Oleksandr.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I was afraid they would cripple me’

Svitlana Holovata’s house in Moshchun was destroyed. Everything burned down: the beds, wardrobes, all wooden furniture, and TV. She said she felt like there was nothing there before.

Ukrainian poet and writer Volodymyr Vakulenko killed after being seized by Russian invaders

A DNA test has confirmed that the body buried as ‘No. 319’ at the Izium mass burial site is that of Volodymyr Vakulenko

Russian invaders abduct two Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests from Berdiansk and accuse them of ‘terrorism’

Two priests from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church have been abducted by the Russian invaders in Berdiansk (Zaporizhzhia oblast) with ominous indications that Russia is planning to stage a cynical show trial

Despite Russia admitting to terrorism against Ukraine, OSCE will not expel it

A top Kremlin official has effectively stated that Russia will continue bombing Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and killing civilians until Kyiv agrees to its demands

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Lecturer beaten, ‘tried’ and imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea for a Ukrainian patriotic song

Andriy Bielozierov, who had already lost his post as lecturer at the Bilohirsk Technical College for another Ukrainian song, was first beaten by the Russian-controlled ‘officers’ who came for him, and then imprisoned for 14 days

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

Savage sentences against Crimean Tatar journalists for reporting on Russia’s ‘state terrorism’ in occupied Crimea

A Russian court has handed down 13-14-year sentences against three civic journalists and two activists taken prisoner in Russia’s most ferocious and internationally condemned attack to date on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement.

Russian torture was particularly savage in Kherson oblast, with even teenagers imprisoned

Young lads, some who looked no older than 14, were imprisoned, in one case for ripping down a Russian flag

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