Menu
All publications

• War crimes

Hospital bombed by the Russians at Azovstal as more mass graves found near Mariupol

Vladimir Putin’s assurances that Russia would stop bombing the besieged Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol have proven as empty as his claims of ‘victory’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia invades Crimea and sentences Ukrainian academic to almost 20 years for ‘treason’

The indictment remains a mystery, but must, of necessity, date back more than the five and a half years that 51-year-old Dmytro Shtyblikov has already spent in Russian custody

• Prohibition of discrimination

Romani Voices From Hell: Discrimination, Epidemic, War

Since the start of Russian aggression and hostilities in Ukraine in 2014, ADC Memorial has regularly monitored the situation of the Roma minority in the conflict zone. A full-scale war has been underway on Ukrainian territory since February 24, 2022. The world is following the events in Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Kherson oblasts, in long-suffering Mariupol, and in other cities in Donbas with pain and horror. To mark International Roma Day, ADC Memorial is publishing the accounts of Roma who have faced discriminat

• War crimes

Russian invaders create “real concentration camp” to torture Ukrainian prisoners in Kharkiv oblast

The Russian military who have seized control of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv oblast are believed to have created an effective concentration camp where prisoners are subjected to physical and psychological torture

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I survived 21 days with a shard in my body. I was lucky’

Anastasia Makeeva lived for a month in war-torn Mariupol. Now she is recovering from an operation in Zaporizhia, after which she plans to go to Western Ukraine with her family.

• Events

Internal fight against ‘ZEvil’ – digest of Russian protests

A person was arrested in Krasnodar who brought outside and burned his sofa, having written “ZEvil” on it – with letter Z, which became a loyalist symbol of the war in Ukraine. His girlfriend lives in Mariupol and have not been in touch since the first days of the war. However, they can take you to the police for less: a quote from a cartoon or for the commandment "Do not kill!".

• War crimes

Children abducted, used as weapons and killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Serhiy Haidai, Governor of the Luhansk oblast, has reported that the Russian invaders are abducting children in Rubizhne, in order to then force their mothers to get information for them about Ukrainian military positions

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia resorts to undisguised fabrication for ‘trial’ of prominent Crimean Tatar journalist and Mejlis leader

Russia wants to sentence Nariman Dzhelyal, internationally renowned Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader, journalist and civic activist, to 15 or 20 years for a fictitious act of sabotage with the only ‘evidence’ provided by equally fictitious anonymous witnesses

• War crimes

Russia is forcibly ‘mobilizing’ Ukrainians from occupied territory to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia has reportedly begun forced ‘mobilization’ in those parts of the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv oblasts under its occupation

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

Seven Jehovah’s Witnesses put on trial in Russian-occupied Crimea for studying the Bible

On 9 April 2022, a Russian court revoked the first and only acquittal of a Ukrainian believer since Russia’s ban of the Jehovah’s Witnesses five years ago and its illegal repression in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I washed and buried my brother riddled with shrapnel, and his bloodied and wounded mother was barely in time for the burial…’

Olena Vasylieva from Luhansk region, like most residents of the region, fell into the vortex of war twice – in 2014 and now. On March 4, her cousin died of her injuries. He was buried in a black bag, there were no coffin any more...

• War crimes

Russians abduct Prymorsk civic activist who protested their invasion of Ukraine

The Russian invaders are continuing to instil terror and try to stifle resistance by seizing local public officials; civic activists and journalist from occupied territory in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts