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

Russia continues its first machine for destroying Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian families

While intensively bombing and killing Ukrainians, Russia is still finding time for the repression it has inflicted on those parts of Ukraine seized after its first invasion eight years ago.

• Events

Children among the dead after Russian invaders opened fire on fleeing civilians

Russian forces opened fire on families fleeing the fighting in and around Irpin on 6 March, with at least three people killed, including two children

• Freedom of expression   • War crimes

Russia installs its propaganda TV after seizing Kherson and imposes 15-year sentences for reporting its invasion of Ukraine

Russia has effectively silenced all sources of objective information about its war against Ukraine at home, and is swiftly moving to seize control of the media where it has seized Ukrainian cities

• Events

The War in Ukraine. Genocide of Kharkiv

‘Now the occupiers continue to bomb Kharkiv. I am writing this text under the constant accompaniment of the sounds of explosions, artillery and flying fighters.’

• The right to life   • Events

Ukrainian survivors of the Holocaust demand Putin and Russia get out of Ukraine

Update on the fire at the Zaporizhya Nuclear Power Plant caused by Russian shelling

• Events

RF: Human rights activists demand the removal of the bodies of dead servicemen from Ukraine

Russian human rights activists demand from the authorities of RF to provide the conditions for the removal of the bodies of Russian soldiers from Ukraine. The appeal was published on the website of the Memorial Human Rights Center. 

• Implementation of European Law   • Events

Russia continues its carnage, flouting binding order from ECHR to stop bombing civilians in Ukraine

Russia is flouting a direct and unequivocal order from the European Court of Human Rights and s continuing its horrific carnage and terror against Ukrainians

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar Reshat Ametov, first savagely tortured victim of Russia’s war against Ukraine

If the bombing of Ukrainian cities by Russian invading forces is unprecedented, not so Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which began eight years ago

• War crimes

Babyn Yar bombed by Russia, 80 years after Nazi Massacre of Ukrainian Jews

In its bombing of civilian targets in Kyiv and Kharkiv, Russia has also hit Babyn Yar, the site of one of the worst Nazi massacres of the Holocaust

• War crimes

Russia proposes 15-year sentences and threatens 'treason charges' for telling the truth about its war crimes in Ukraine

It is clear from the regime’s ban on words like ‘invasion’; ‘war’ and ‘aggression’ that this is one of several weapons being deployed to prevent people in Russia from learning about the crimes the regime is committing

• War crimes

Russian schoolchildren told that Russia is bombing and killing Ukrainian children in ‘self-defence’

While bombing residential areas throughout Ukraine and killing civilians, the Russian regime is sending instructions to Russian schools on how to present such war crimes as “self-defence” and "a peacekeeping operation"

• War crimes

Putin miscalculated. Russia is fighting “an army of 40 million Ukrainians”

Judging by Putin’s deranged call on the Ukrainian Army to abandon their posts, he appears to have seriously miscalculated whom he was dealing with in Ukraine