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Russian invaders remove Ukrainian language and literature from schools

Documents uncovered after the Ukrainian Armed Forces liberated Balakliya (Kharkiv oblast) show how the occupation regime swiftly took steps to remove the Ukrainian language and literature from schools

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We are Russian citizens and are ashamed of the actions committed in our country’s name.

Statement by Oleg Orlov, Sergei Davidis, Co-Director of the Memorial Centre for the Defence of Human Rights regarding Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian power stations

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Information about Russia’s war crimes is now available in seven languages

KHPG and other Ukrainian human rights NGOs are launching a website of the T4P war crimes initiative.

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First tortured victims exhumed after Ukraine drives Russian invaders out of Kharkiv oblast village

The two men whose bodies were uncovered in Hrakove had been shot and their ears cut off

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

Crimean Tatar political prisoner sentenced to 11 years for 'kitchen conversation' about religion and politics

A Russian court has sentenced 52-year-old has sentenced Yashar Shikhametov to eleven years’ imprisonment on the basis of flawed charges, planted religious literature and anonymous ‘witnesses’ who had quite likely never set eyes on him.

• Events

Fascism is here in Russia. Anti-war activities in Russia, 15-22 August

New investigations into acts “discrediting” the Russian army were opened in Elista (Kalmykia, South Russia), in Buinaksk (Dagestan) and Ingushetia in the North Caucasus, and in Petrozavodsk (Karelia), St Petersburg and Krasnodar (South Russia).

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Even Kremlin supporters admit Russia has created ‘a humanitarian disaster zone’ in occupied Ukrainian cities

Residents of the Ukrainian cities in Donbas which Russia virtually razed to the ground while claiming to 'liberate' are facing humanitarian catastrophe this winter with Russian officials “incapable” of rebuilding what Russia has destroyed

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

New Russian conveyor belt of repression targets Crimean Tatars, other Ukrainians abducted from mainland Ukraine

More and more Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians are being put on ‘trial’ in occupied Crimea after being abducted by the Russian invaders from Kherson or Zaporizhzhia oblasts or from the administrative border between mainland Ukraine and Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘They shot at our feet, near us, and one guy was wounded with an electric shocker...’

The Russian military said, “Now there will be an execution here, take everything out of your jacket pockets and sit down,” — how the Russian military mocked the volunteers in the occupied Mariupol.

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Russian invaders abduct Kherson oblast local leader, install “worst of the worst” collaborators

Armed Russians burst into the home of Dmytro Liakhno, Head of the Hornostaiivka Hromada in Kherson oblast, in the morning of 3 August

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Admission of guilt: Russia blocks international investigation of Olenivka mass killing of Ukrainian POWs

Why are the International Committee of the Red Cross and UN doing next to nothing to effectively investigate the 29 July killing of around 53 Ukrainian prisoners of war, held captive in Russian-occupied Donbas

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

Russia wants 64-year-old Crimean Tatar to die in prison for refusing to collaborate in occupied Crimea

Zekirya Muratov, a pensioner and former musician has Grade III disability status and numerous grave medical conditions which make the long sentence as formal as the cynical charges against him.