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Russia abducts 25 volunteers delivering humanitarian aid to Mariupol, threatens to put them ‘on trial’

25 volunteer drivers delivering humanitarian aid to Russian-besieged Mariupol have been imprisoned for two months, with the Russian proxy Donetsk ‘republic’ threatening them with 10-year ‘sentences’

Ukrainian 'refugees' in Russia forced to give 'testimony' blaming Ukraine for Russian war crimes

Two separate sources in Russia have reported that Ukrainian refugees are being interrogated by Russian ‘investigators’ and pushed into providing ‘testimony’ that they came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Russian soldiers given long sentences in Ukraine for bombing civilian targets in Kharkiv oblast

In the second sentence for war crimes since Russia began its total invasion of Ukraine, two young Russian contract soldiers have received 11.5 year sentences for bombing civilian areas in the Kharkiv oblast.

Ukrainian POWs endure horrific torture by Russian captors

Recently freed Ukrainian prisoners of war have given harrowing accounts of the torture, cruel and degrading treatment they were subjected to after being taken prisoner

GANHRI and ENNHRI open letter on serious concerns in relation to the proposal to dismiss the current Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights

Despite Russia’s total war against Ukraine and serious concerns expressed by human rights NGOs, 235 lawmakers voted on 31 May to dismiss Lyudmyla Denisova from her post as Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights

The letter on the attempt to remove the Ombudsman from the position – to all people concerned

On 30 May it became known that the people’s deputies want to use the new law (“On the legal regime of martial law”) by proclaiming mistrust to Denisova after an instruction from Bankova street. If it happens, the independence of the institution of the Commissioner can be buried and forgotten. That independence survived in the winter months of Maidan, and later – in spring 2014 in opposition to the whims of parliamentarians. It was defended. The law defeated the arbitrariness.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Prosecution witnesses confirm testimony’ against Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal was obtained through torture

Both of the Crimean Tatars abducted together with political prisoners Nariman Dzhelyal and two cousins - Asan and Aziz Akhtemov, have stated during the trial of the latter that their ‘testimony’ against the defendants was given under torture

Russian invaders use Mariupol supermarket to dump the bodies of their victims

he Mariupol authorities have reposted a harrowing photo which appears to show the premises of a supermarket being used as a dumping ground for the bodies of Mariupol residents

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia imprisons three lawyers amid mounting repression in occupied Crimea and newly seized Ukrainian cities

The mass arrests and imprisonment on absurd charges are clearly a threat, aimed at deterring lawyers from defending Russia’s growing number of political prisoners

International experts issue stark warning of Russian genocide against Ukraine

An independent study has concluded that there is a serious risk of Russian genocide in Ukraine evidenced both in Russia’s incitement to commit genocide and in its pattern of atrocities

• Voices of war • Interview

Sterilizing Syringes With Vodka And Finding Shrapnel In The Back. What Is It Like To Be A Doctor In A Bomb Shelter?

Hanna Shevchyk, 31, used to work in a maternity hospital in Mariupol. She had to spend a month in the bomb shelter. Her war story is different from others due to medical details, and shows how you can still save lives when there’s a lack of medicines.

• War crimes • Research

Summary of events that took place in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region during the first 90 days of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war (February 24 – May 24 2022)

The analysis of the collected information gives grounds to claim that there were deaths and injuries of civilians, destruction and damage of civilian objects due to wilful shelling and indiscriminate shelling, probable incidents of enforced disappearances, captures of civilians, violations of humanitarian corridors and attacks on humanitarian aid supplies and convoys, volunteers, looting, killings.

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