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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I saw fire arrows flying from Kherson...’

Talking to Ukrainians, we preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a inhabitant of Mykolayiv whose apartment was destroyed by Russian grad system.

• War crimes

Russia destroys Mariupol and tries to get illegally deported residents to move to Siberia

According to the Mariupol City Council, Putin's policy is clear - first Russia destroys a successful and warm city on the Sea of Azov, and then they drive its residents to Siberia or Sakhalin to work as cheap labour.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Children’s rights

Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s child told by Russian officer that they’ll come back for him – and they have

Amar was just 14 when the Russian FSB came for his father, Tofik Abdulgaziev, and 22 other Crimean Tatar civic journalists or activists

• War crimes

Russian soldiers risk prison or injure themselves so as to not fight in Ukraine

Military servicemen from 17 Russian cities have approached human rights lawyers for assistance after refusing to go or return to take part in Russia’s war against Ukraine

• The right to life   • Voices of war

‘... I sang in the basement to calm my daughter down’

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembitska interviews Ukrainians, who had to flee the war, to preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a Kharkiv woman who was forced to flee shelling and bombing with a baby in her arms and a five-year-old daughter.

• War crimes

Charred bodies of Russian invaders' torture victims found in Kharkiv oblast

It is increasingly clear that harrowing discoveries should be expected in all parts of Ukraine that have, however temporarily, fallen under Russian occupation, with the Kharkiv oblast village of Husarivka no exception

• War crimes

Russia accused of using mobile crematoria to hide its war crimes in Mariupol

According to the Mariupol City Council, the Russian invaders have organized a collection point for the bodies of their victims and are using special units to pick up bodies left in different parts of the besieged city in order to dispose of them

• War crimes   • Research

On documenting international crimes committed by the Russian occupiers

The article describes our approach to documentation of the international crimes allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers, briefly describes the database where the collected information is entered, legal aid provided to victims of crime, means of publishing results and communication with victims and witnesses.

• War crimes

Pro-Kremlin sites initially boasted of Russia’s Kramatorsk bombing that killed 52 civilians, including children

As with MH17 in 2014, Russian propaganda channels on Telegram boasted of the bombing before quickly editing their texts as the enormity of Russia’s war crime became clear.

• War crimes

Russia bombs Kramatorsk station killing dozens of civilians trying to flee its invasion

The death toll now stands at 50, after Russia’s barbaric missile attack on the Kramatorsk Railway Station on Friday morning where as many as 4,000 civilians were trying to flee the city

• War crimes

Russian invaders torture local leader in Chernihiv oblast and stage mock executions “for entertainment”

Oleksandr Kraskivsky, a local head who led the residents of Zamhlai (Chernihiv oblast) in trying to prevent the Russian invaders from entering their village was seized on 23 March and savagely tortured

• War crimes

Russians bomb tracks but fail to prevent evacuation trains carrying civilians fleeing from Donbas

Russia has yet again blocked evacuation of civilians fleeing its invasion, with three evacuation trains blocked for many hours. Evacuation from parts of the Kharkiv oblast and Mariupol remains blocked