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Russia sends relatives of Ukrainian soldiers and other Mariupol residents to ‘concentration camp’ in occupied Donbas

More than a million Ukrainians are reported to have been deported to Russia, but others, deemed ideologically ‘unreliable’ end up in a camp at Olenivka, perhaps also the notorious Izolyatsia secret prison

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Russia uses collaborators to ‘ask Putin’ for annexation of entire Kherson oblast

Russia’s state-controlled media claimed on 11 May that ‘the Kherson regional authorities will ask Putin to join Russia’, with the ‘authorities’ in question a motley bunch of collaborators

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Horrific conditions and torture in Russian filtration camp ‘ghetto’ for Mariupol residents

The Russian invaders finally allowed 4-year-old Alisa and other civilians to leave Azovstal on 8 May, but took Alisa's mother away to a so-called 'filtration camp'

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Russia destroys Ukraine's National Skovoroda Museum in 'ideological attack on Ukrainian identity'

Those indignant that Russian ‘apolitical’ cultural events have been cancelled because of the war should recall Russia’s destruction of the last home and museum of a great philosopher whom Russians don't want to accept was Ukrainian

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Human Rights Group banned as ‘undesirable’ for reporting Russia's crimes in occupied Crimea

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has formally outlawed the vital Crimean Human Rights Group [CHRG], by declaring its activities “undesirable” in the Russian Federation and occupied Crimea

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Russian invaders destroy 97-year-old Ukrainian WWII veteran’s home

While Russia prepares a grandiose display of military firepower in Moscow for the 77th anniversary of Victory Day, its soldiers are aiming their firepower against Ukrainian World War II veterans, Holocaust survivors and other civilians

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Huge number feared killed after Russians bomb a school in Luhansk oblast where around 90 civilians had sought shelter

(Update) Initial rescue work after the Russian airstrike on the village school in Bilohorivka had to be postponed because of the likelihood of a new Russian attack

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The Ukrainian garrison in Mariupol can still be saved: Urgent address to European leaders

Ukrainian human rights defenders, former dissidents and scholars call European leaders to act now

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The bodies were lying in the street. Broken. Pieces. Blood...’

An architect and artist Halyna Bulgakova left everything in Kharkiv: an apartment, paintings – ready for the exhibition, half-ruined Saltivka houses, which she once designed. The artist came to Lviv only with her grandson. The interview was prepared by Lviv journalist Taras Zozulinsky.

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Russian invaders destroy Ukrainian hospitals, plundering medical equipment and abducting medical staff

As of 4 May, the Russian invaders had bombed, shelled or otherwise damaged 400 Ukrainian medical institutions, with 40 of these totally destroyed

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Even in Russia, Putin’s ‘denazification’ claims prove no excuse for war against Ukraine

‘The Project’, one of the few independent (and effectively banned) Russian media has published a damning report on the ‘mess’ around Russia’s total war against Ukraine, including Putin's attempt to claim 'denazification' to be a main aim

• Events

Poster “Christ for peace” discredits the army – digest of Russian protests

Memorial employees Oleg Orlov and Irina Galkova were detained on Red Square. They stood alongside the backdrop of the Victory Day banner with posters “USSR 1945 is a country that defeated fascism. Russia 2022 is a country of victorious fascism” and “Stop killing people! Peace to Ukraine!” In the police department they were charged with two articles at once: violating the procedure for holding a picket and “discrediting the armed forces”.