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Raped, shot and thrown in a mass grave by the Russian invaders who turned Bucha into hell

Karina Yershova fled with her parents from the Russians who seized control of Donetsk in 2014. She was 23 when Russians invaded her new home in Bucha (Kyiv oblast), raped and shot her dead, leaving her body in a mass grave

Ukrainian Holocaust survivor dies in a Mariupol basement, seeking refuge from Russian bombs

Vanda Obiedkova survived in a Mariupol basement after the Nazis came for her family. 81 years later, she died in a bitterly cold Mariupol basement where she and her family were forced to seek shelter from Russian bombs.

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’

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

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.’

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

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

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

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