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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The Russians fired at our car,’ a Kyiv region resident recalls

​​​​​​​Tamara Buhera is a resident of Kozarovychi village in the Kyiv region. It was occupied in the first days of the war. When she, her friend and her son tried to flee, they were shot at. All three were injured. Her friend died of the injuries.

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

After violently seizing Crimea, Russia accuses peaceful Crimean Tatars of ‘terrorism’ for defending political prisoners

In a powerful address, Crimean Tatar political prisoner Oleh Fedorov has highlighted the grotesque absurdity of the country that invaded and annexed Crimea accusing peaceful Crimeans of seeking to ‘overthrow the Russian constitutional order’

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia begins propaganda of war against Ukraine at pre-school level

The situation is particularly shocking in occupied Crimea, where the schoolchildren reportedly forced to send ‘letters of gratitude’ to soldiers fighting in Ukraine may well have family now being bombed or shelled by those same Russian invaders.

• War crimes

Covert mobilization and Ukrainian conscripts from occupied Crimea sent to die in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia has used the armed formations it calls ‘republics’ in occupied Donbas to seize Ukrainian men and forcibly send them to the frontline where very many have been killed, and it now appears to be planning a form of mobilization in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

“I entered a store and burst into tears” — three weeks under bombardment in Mariupol

A resident of Mariupol, Olga says that each day people died nearby when they went outside to prepare food on open fires. When she first heard the explosions on 24 February, she told her son it was thunder. Later she could not stop crying when she realized what was going on.

• War crimes

Russia instals FSB man, other Russians to ‘govern’ occupied Kherson where the population hates them

Moscow has clearly despaired of finding enough local collaborators to ‘govern’ the parts of the Kherson oblast currently under its occupation, and has brought in its own

• War crimes

Russia removes last doctors after destroying Mariupol and causing humanitarian disaster

Russia has reportedly sent the last doctors out of occupied Mariupol despite the real danger of epidemic in a city devastated by Russian bombing and shelling.

• War crimes   • Events

Belarusian rail partisans who helped save Kyiv from the Russian invaders threatened with death sentences

Three Belarusians are about to go on trial, with the Belarusian Investigative Committee having already labelled them ‘traitors’ and threatened the death penalty

• War crimes   • Research

Missing and Detained Individuals in the Kharkiv Region: An analytical review (24 February to 23 June 2022)

The KHPG has been documenting war crimes since the first day of the war.It draws on information from open sources and appeals it receives from the victims or their relatives. In the past four months, we documented 590 incidents in the Kharkiv Regionin which a total of 777 people disappeared.

• Children’s rights   • War crimes

Russia moves to eradicate Ukraine from schools in occupied Mariupol, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia

Russia is eager to instil so-called ‘Russian standards’, including Russia’s lies about its war against Ukraine, and is having difficulty finding local teachers willing to collaborate with them.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Russian Prosecutor General given power to close media for ‘discrediting the army’ through truth about the war against Ukraine

Russia’s State Duma has adopted a draft bill allowing the prosecutor general to close media in Russia or occupied Crimea for so-called ‘fakes’, ‘discrediting the army’; ‘disrespect for the authorities’ or for calls to impose sanctions

• Events

Patterns of Resistance are changing. A Digest of Protests in Russia (17-24 June 2022)

During the past week public protests seemed to be waning in Russia. In fact, the anti-war movement was regrouping and adopting new forms of action.

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