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Belarusian rail partisans who helped save Kyiv from the Russian invaders threatened with death sentences

Three Belarusians are about to go on trial, with the Belarusian Investigative Committee having already labelled them ‘traitors’ and threatened the death penalty

• War crimes   • Research

Missing and Detained Individuals in the Kharkiv Region: An analytical review (24 February to 23 June 2022)

The KHPG has been documenting war crimes since the first day of the war.It draws on information from open sources and appeals it receives from the victims or their relatives. In the past four months, we documented 590 incidents in the Kharkiv Regionin which a total of 777 people disappeared.

• Children’s rights   • War crimes

Russia moves to eradicate Ukraine from schools in occupied Mariupol, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia

Russia is eager to instil so-called ‘Russian standards’, including Russia’s lies about its war against Ukraine, and is having difficulty finding local teachers willing to collaborate with them.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Russian Prosecutor General given power to close media for ‘discrediting the army’ through truth about the war against Ukraine

Russia’s State Duma has adopted a draft bill allowing the prosecutor general to close media in Russia or occupied Crimea for so-called ‘fakes’, ‘discrediting the army’; ‘disrespect for the authorities’ or for calls to impose sanctions

• Events

Patterns of Resistance are changing. A Digest of Protests in Russia (17-24 June 2022)

During the past week public protests seemed to be waning in Russia. In fact, the anti-war movement was regrouping and adopting new forms of action.

• 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.

• War crimes

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.

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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.

• War crimes

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.