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Crimean teacher dismissed and threatened with prosecution for telling students the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Geography teacher Susanna Bezazieva told her students in Russian-occupied Crimea that Ukrainians are defending their homes, their freedom and independence

• Events

“I will not fear ZEvil”– digest of Russian protests

In many cities of Russia, the action "Immortal Regiment" was held. Activists brought the signs with photos of their relatives who died in World War II and photo captions: “Grandfathers said: ‘Let there never be a war’”, “They didn’t fight for this”, “They didn’t want to repeat”, “They fought for peace” and others, as well as portraits of Ukrainians who died this year.

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Russia sends relatives of Ukrainian soldiers and other Mariupol residents to ‘concentration camp’ in occupied Donbas

More than a million Ukrainians are reported to have been deported to Russia, but others, deemed ideologically ‘unreliable’ end up in a camp at Olenivka, perhaps also the notorious Izolyatsia secret prison

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Russia uses collaborators to ‘ask Putin’ for annexation of entire Kherson oblast

Russia’s state-controlled media claimed on 11 May that ‘the Kherson regional authorities will ask Putin to join Russia’, with the ‘authorities’ in question a motley bunch of collaborators

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Horrific conditions and torture in Russian filtration camp ‘ghetto’ for Mariupol residents

The Russian invaders finally allowed 4-year-old Alisa and other civilians to leave Azovstal on 8 May, but took Alisa's mother away to a so-called 'filtration camp'

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Russia destroys Ukraine's National Skovoroda Museum in 'ideological attack on Ukrainian identity'

Those indignant that Russian ‘apolitical’ cultural events have been cancelled because of the war should recall Russia’s destruction of the last home and museum of a great philosopher whom Russians don't want to accept was Ukrainian

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Human Rights Group banned as ‘undesirable’ for reporting Russia's crimes in occupied Crimea

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has formally outlawed the vital Crimean Human Rights Group [CHRG], by declaring its activities “undesirable” in the Russian Federation and occupied Crimea

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Russian invaders destroy 97-year-old Ukrainian WWII veteran’s home

While Russia prepares a grandiose display of military firepower in Moscow for the 77th anniversary of Victory Day, its soldiers are aiming their firepower against Ukrainian World War II veterans, Holocaust survivors and other civilians

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Huge number feared killed after Russians bomb a school in Luhansk oblast where around 90 civilians had sought shelter

(Update) Initial rescue work after the Russian airstrike on the village school in Bilohorivka had to be postponed because of the likelihood of a new Russian attack

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The Ukrainian garrison in Mariupol can still be saved: Urgent address to European leaders

Ukrainian human rights defenders, former dissidents and scholars call European leaders to act now

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The bodies were lying in the street. Broken. Pieces. Blood...’

An architect and artist Halyna Bulgakova left everything in Kharkiv: an apartment, paintings – ready for the exhibition, half-ruined Saltivka houses, which she once designed. The artist came to Lviv only with her grandson. The interview was prepared by Lviv journalist Taras Zozulinsky.

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Russian invaders destroy Ukrainian hospitals, plundering medical equipment and abducting medical staff

As of 4 May, the Russian invaders had bombed, shelled or otherwise damaged 400 Ukrainian medical institutions, with 40 of these totally destroyed