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Russian soldiers risk prison or injure themselves so as to not fight in Ukraine

Military servicemen from 17 Russian cities have approached human rights lawyers for assistance after refusing to go or return to take part in Russia’s war against Ukraine

• The right to life • Voices of war

‘... I sang in the basement to calm my daughter down’

Kyiv volunteer Antonina Dembitska interviews Ukrainians, who had to flee the war, to preserve the voices of witnesses for the history and future tribunal of war criminals. Read an interview with a Kharkiv woman who was forced to flee shelling and bombing with a baby in her arms and a five-year-old daughter.

Charred bodies of Russian invaders' torture victims found in Kharkiv oblast

It is increasingly clear that harrowing discoveries should be expected in all parts of Ukraine that have, however temporarily, fallen under Russian occupation, with the Kharkiv oblast village of Husarivka no exception

Russia accused of using mobile crematoria to hide its war crimes in Mariupol

According to the Mariupol City Council, the Russian invaders have organized a collection point for the bodies of their victims and are using special units to pick up bodies left in different parts of the besieged city in order to dispose of them

• War crimes • Research

On documenting international crimes committed by the Russian occupiers

The article describes our approach to documentation of the international crimes allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers, briefly describes the database where the collected information is entered, legal aid provided to victims of crime, means of publishing results and communication with victims and witnesses.

Pro-Kremlin sites initially boasted of Russia’s Kramatorsk bombing that killed 52 civilians, including children

As with MH17 in 2014, Russian propaganda channels on Telegram boasted of the bombing before quickly editing their texts as the enormity of Russia’s war crime became clear.

Russia bombs Kramatorsk station killing dozens of civilians trying to flee its invasion

The death toll now stands at 50, after Russia’s barbaric missile attack on the Kramatorsk Railway Station on Friday morning where as many as 4,000 civilians were trying to flee the city

Russian invaders torture local leader in Chernihiv oblast and stage mock executions “for entertainment”

Oleksandr Kraskivsky, a local head who led the residents of Zamhlai (Chernihiv oblast) in trying to prevent the Russian invaders from entering their village was seized on 23 March and savagely tortured

Russians bomb tracks but fail to prevent evacuation trains carrying civilians fleeing from Donbas

Russia has yet again blocked evacuation of civilians fleeing its invasion, with three evacuation trains blocked for many hours. Evacuation from parts of the Kharkiv oblast and Mariupol remains blocked

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

New Russian terror against Crimean Tatar civic activist and his family

Yet another Crimean Tatar civic activist is facing serious charges for a social media post after being seized by Russian enforcement officers on 6 April and held incommunicado from early morning until late in the evening.

At least 50 Ukrainians were burned to death in Russia’s bombing of Mariupol hospitals

While claiming to be ‘liberating’ Donbas, Russia has again killed Ukrainians seeking humanitarian aid, and the death toll in Mariupol includes at least 210 children

Belarusians name Russian soldiers caught on camera sending goods plundered in Ukraine to Russia

Robbery may be the least of the crimes committed by the Russians who invaded Bucha and other Ukrainian towns, but it is quite likely that those now sending even stolen children’s toys to Russia also took part in rapes, torture and killings

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