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Generalization of the information about the events in Kharkiv and Kharkiv region during the Russia-Ukraine war for the period February 24 – March 5, 2022

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Courageous Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna feared seized by Russian invaders

Hromadske.ua journalist Victoria Roshchyna has not been seen since 12 March, and it is feared that she has been seized by the Russians who have invaded and seized control of Berdiansk in the Zaporizhya oblast.

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Five members of a family and people queuing for bread killed by Russian bombing of Chernihiv

The victims also included ten residents of an ordinary Chernihiv suburb who were killed by the enemy while standing in a queue for bread

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Russia responds to International Court order to stop bombing Ukraine by destroying Mariupol Theatre sheltering families

Russia has bombed the Donetsk Regional Drama of Theatre, a vital cultural centre in Mariupol until Russia’s invasion turned it into a believed shelter for over a thousand civilians, most of them women and children (Updated information)

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia imprisons Crimean Tatar human rights defender 'for a social media post from 2019'

Abdureshit Dzhepparov is a renowned veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement and human rights defender who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Russian invaders take Mariupol intensive care hospital and its patients hostage

Russian invading forces are preventing the staff and patients of the Regional Intensive Care Hospital in Mariupol from leaving the hospital and, according to one witness, have seized the hospital and are using those inside as living shields.

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‘International institutions must protect Ukrainians from abductions and executions’, Ukrainian SCOs

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

Russia revokes sole acquittal of Crimean Tatar civic journalist and political prisoner

A Russian appeal court has revoked the sole acquittal of a Crimean political prisoner and upheld horrific sentences against seven other Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists

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Mass graves of the Ukrainian civilians Russia claims it is not killing

Those who believe that only Putin and his immediate circle are to blame for this war and the atrocities being committed would do well to consider how many Russians are directly involved in the killing and / or maintaining the lies

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Terror and abductions as Russia tries to break Ukrainian resistance in Kherson and other occupied cities

Invading Russian forces have seized a second Ukrainian mayor, as well as the head of a regional council in Melitopol, and a civic activist organizing information self-defence in occupied Nova Kakhovka.

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

Russia targets entire families in its savage persecution of Crimean Tatars

All of the men in Fatma Ismailova’s family - her husband, Rustem Ismailov, her father Enver Omerov and brother Riza Omerov - have been sentenced, without any recognizable crime, to horrific sentences

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Ukrainian journalist Oleh Baturin feared abducted by Russian invaders in Kherson oblast

The disappearance of Oleh Baturin comes as Russia appears to be planning to stage a farcical ‘referendum’ and to concoct a so-called ‘Kherson people’s republic’