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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Mariupol Moses’: A Man Who Took 117 People Out Of The Besieged City On Foot

Oleksiy Symonov is a charismatic sports host. He says that the most important thing is communication — it often helped him not only to survive, but to also take all of his shelter’s companions out of Mariupol.

• Freedom of expression   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB threaten to kill Ukrainian civic journalist and force her into signing blank ‘confessions’

Iryna Danilovych was held incommunicado for 12 days, with the first eight secretly held and placed under massive pressure by the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea

• War crimes

Russia deports Ukrainians to occupied Donbas, forcing them to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia has a problem manning its aggression against Ukraine, and one of the methods it is using is forcing Ukrainians from occupied territory to fight against their fellow Ukrainians

• Voices of war   • Interview

A resident of Mariupol is telling how she found civilians killed by a sniper

On the second attempt Olena Yakhontova was able to leave Mariupol with her three children. The kindergarten in which she used to work was leveled. Chechens now live in her house and give the flats to everyone who wants them.

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

Monstrous sentences in Russia’s war against Crimean Tatar civic activists and their children

Five Crimean Tatar civic activists have been sentenced to 12 and 14 years’ imprisonment without any crime and solely on the basis of ‘anonymous witnesses’ who had probably never set eyes on them

• War crimes

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.

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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'

• War crimes

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