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Russia lavishly pays Wagner Unit mercenaries to bomb and kill Ukrainians

A Russian bomber pilot, captured over Svitlodarsk in Donetsk oblast, has admitted being employed by a so-called ‘private military company’ and receiving 205 thousand roubles (3,5 thousand euros) a month for carrying out bombing raids

Desperate plea from the wives of Donbas men seized and sent to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia has been rounding up men in Donbas and sending even those with evident medical conditions to fight and, more than likely, be killed fighting its war against Ukra

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Unexpected end to Russia’s three-year persecution of Crimean Tatar Regional Mejlis Head

A court in Russian-occupied Crimea has terminated a grotesque criminal prosecution first brought almost three years ago against 71-year-old Ilver Ametov, veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement

European Court orders Russia not to carry out ‘death sentence’ against POW defending Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to ensure that the death penalty imposed on Brahim Saadoun, a prisoner of war seized while serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is not carried out.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘People flew in the air like leaves — there was such a strong explosion’

Olena Gurina from Kharkiv has been hiding from enemy shelling in the subway for twenty days.

Russia 'demilitarizes' Ukraine by killing at least 45 children and bombing over 200 schools in Kharkiv region alone

Russia’s constant claim that it is only attacking military sites seems particularly cynical given the huge number of killed or maimed children, and of schools destroyed

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

Russian medics acknowledge that 60-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s life is in danger

Dzhemil Gafarov has been in a prison hospital in Russia for two weeks, with doctors finally acknowledging that the 60-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner is suffering from a condition that should preclude his detention

• Voices of war • Interview

‘The helicopter skimmed the treetops.’ Azov fighter tells of his evacuation from Mariupol.

A wounded fighter tells of his night-time evacuation from Azovstal.

“We’re not celebrating today” – digest of Russian protests (early June 2022)

12 June was a public holiday in Russia. It marks the date in 1990 when the Russian Federation declared its independence. In Russian towns and cities filled with police and the pro-war symbol Z, activists used the occasion to hold anti-war protests. Many were arrested, and facial-recognition technology was used to detain over sixty men and women in the Moscow Metro. Hackers, street artists and musicians took part in the protests.

High-ranking Russian officials openly incite to genocide against Ukraine

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s ‘doubt’ that Ukraine will exist in two years is nothing to the open incitement to genocide seen from another high-ranking public figure

Tortured to death by Russia's FSB for helping to defend Ukraine from the invaders

Denys Myronov's mother, Natalia, is convinced that her son was so savagely tortured because they could not break him and he refused to collaborate with the enemy.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea • Events

ECHR rules too late against Russia’s notorious ‘foreign agent’ law and hardly moves over violations in occupied Crimea

The judgement might have been hailed as a victory for civil society in Russia and occupied Crimea, had it not been so hopelessly belated.

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