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• Voices of war • Interview

‘There were more than fifty bullets in the body of a friend’

Children psychologist Vitaliy Stepanenko had been helping pro bono at a hospital in Dymer throughout 36 days of occupation. He said he saw everything — dismembered limbs, dead people.

What ‘denazification? Russian neo-Nazis used to fight Moscow’s war to destroy Ukraine

There is already evidence that three notorious Russian neo-Nazis are back fighting in Ukraine, and the number is more than likely to be higher.

Russia steps up abductions for torture and ransom in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

People begin disappearing as soon as Russians seize any Ukrainian territory, as the situation in Enerhodar and Melitopol shows

Russia produces a variation of easily disproven lies about its horrific war crime in Kremenchuk

Soon after Russia's missile strike on a Kremenchuk shopping centre, Putin's press secretary offered a swift end to the war if Ukraine capitulated. He did not state that otherwise such atrocities would continue, but this was, after all, obvious

• War crimes • Research

Disappearances in the Zaporizhzhia Region (24 February to 18 June 2022)

Among the categories of people who disappeared the majority were ordinary citizens. They were not working for the media, and there is no information about them. It is proving impossible to determine their fate. Their occupations are unknown, and it remains unclear what category we can put them in.

Mayor of Kherson abducted after refusing to collaborate with Russian invaders

Ihor Kolykhaev, elected Mayor of Kherson, was abducted by Russian soldiers on 28 June and is almost certainly in danger

• War crimes • Research

INCIDENTS IN KHARKIV AND THE KHARKIV REGION recorded by the KHPG during the first 120 days (24 February-23 June 2022) of Russia's all-out war against Ukraine

The analysis of the collected information provides grounds to claim that there were deaths and injuries of civilian people, destruction and damage of civilian objects – residential buildings and civilian infrastructure facilities – due to wilful and indiscriminate shelling. The studied data also provides reasons to claim alleged incidents of enforced disappearances, captures of civilians, violations of humanitarian corridors and attacks on humanitarian aid supplies, looting, killings and others.

• Freedom of expression • War crimes

Collaborators with Russian state terrorism should be thrown out of International Federation of Journalists

There has been total silence from the main Russian press agencies about Russia’s bombing of a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, and the Russian Union of Journalists never reports anything that could annoy the Kremlin

Russian legislative changes would mean school leavers can officially be sent to fight in Ukraine

The new move has been criticized as making Russia’s armed forces “incredibly unprofessional”, with contract soldiers effectively becoming so much ‘cannon fodder’.

Medics taken prisoner by Russian invaders for treating defenders of Ukraine in Mariupol

Russia finally released renowned paramedic Yulia Paevska, but is still illegally holding a huge number of other doctors and paramedics who were taken prisoner while trying to save lives during Russia’s bloody siege of Mariupol

Russian invaders torture abducted Kherson patriot into ‘confessing’ to surreal ‘abduction plot’

It is almost three months since Andriy Horshkov was seized by the Russian invaders from his home in Kherson and there is every reason to fear for his safety

Chuvashia is Angry: A Bracelet for every 500 roubles. Digest of Russian protests (11-16 June 2022)

Advice to conscripts on refusing military service; a secret Peace Forum in Petersburg; bracelets for those who donate towards the fines for protesting: people in Russia continued to express opposition to the war and the regime responded with new punishments, criminal charges and violence. Agents beat up a man in front of his seven-year-old son because the boy was wearing a yellow hat and blue jacket.

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