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Fake ‘referendums’ at gunpoint planned to try to ‘legitimize’ Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Not only are the Russian invaders continuing to occupy parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, but they have already staged one fake ‘referendum’ and are reportedly planning others to try to ‘legalize’ occupation administrations

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

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar to 17 years for solidarity with political prisoners

A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’

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Russia is bombing Azovstal in Mariupol where 1,000 civilians, including many children, are sheltering

Ukrainian marine commander Serhiy Volyna has appealed to the Pope to intercede and writes that Mariupol under Russian siege is what hell looks like

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Russian invaders abduct 16-year-old son of a Zaporizhzhia regional head

There are no depths that the Russian military cannot plummet, with these now including the kidnapping of a child - Vlad Buriak, who has not been seen for 10 days

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We were lying in the open air, shells were whistling overhead.’ A resident of Mariupol tells about the evacuation and the situation in the city

38 days spent in the basement to survive the blockade, search for products and cooking at a bonfireunder the sound of explosions, mass graves and building the routeto salvation. It was all reported by Nikol, a resident of Mariupol, who with her sister and nephewwas able to use a humanitarian corridorand leave the ‘hot spot.’

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Russia plans total ‘filtration’ of Mariupol men and forced ‘mobilization’

The Russian invaders are reportedly planning to totally close off the besieged city of Mariupol and carry out so-called ‘filtration’ of the entire male population

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Russian invaders kill Ukrainian journalist Zoreslav Zamoisky in Bucha

Zoreslav Zamoisky, a freelance journalist from near Irpin (Kyiv oblast) is the seventh journalist to have been killed since Russia began its full invasion on 24 February

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Russia continues 'liberating' Ukraine by killing a baby and civilians trying to flee Kharkiv oblast

. “The world’s second army, it would seem, is only able to fight civilians”

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • The right to health care

Chief Rabbi of Odesa: “Ukraine is the safest country in the world for Jews”

“Previously I loved and respected the Ukrainian people. But now, after the beginning of the war, I’m simply over the moon about them".

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

Russian invaders raid Kherson oblast home of member of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and former political prisoner

Russia has demonstrated yet again the repression that Crimean Tatars in particular, but all Ukrainians can expect in any Ukrainian territory that falls under Russian occupation

• Publicistics

The cross of Abel and the cross of Cain are different crosses

Compassionate Europeans need to realize that by taking Russians out of responsibility, they are actually doing them a disservice. Because the crime of the Russian state in Ukraine, not understood as a sin and not brought out of the soul through repentance, will inevitably lead to an even worse sin.

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62-year-old Chernihiv village head abducted by FSB to Russia and tortured

Hanna Havrylina's Russian torturers even forcibly cut her hair off, evoking involuntary associations with the Nazis who used to shave the heads of Holocaust victims.