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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has found Mustafa Dzhemilev ‘guilty’ of three preposterous charges brought against the world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian MP
• War crimes
Satellite images have identified what appears to be a mass grave which the Mariupol city authorities believe could hold the bodies of from 3 – 9,000 civilians
Karina Yershova fled with her parents from the Russians who seized control of Donetsk in 2014. She was 23 when Russians invaded her new home in Bucha (Kyiv oblast), raped and shot her dead, leaving her body in a mass grave
Vanda Obiedkova survived in a Mariupol basement after the Nazis came for her family. 81 years later, she died in a bitterly cold Mariupol basement where she and her family were forced to seek shelter from Russian bombs.
Not only are the Russian invaders continuing to occupy parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, but they have already staged one fake ‘referendum’ and are reportedly planning others to try to ‘legalize’ occupation administrations
• Freedom of conscience and religion • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
A court in Russia has sentenced Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years after a farcical ‘trial’ that made no pretence of trying to prove that the 37-year-old Crimean Solidarity civic activist had committed anything but ‘thought crimes’
Ukrainian marine commander Serhiy Volyna has appealed to the Pope to intercede and writes that Mariupol under Russian siege is what hell looks like
There are no depths that the Russian military cannot plummet, with these now including the kidnapping of a child - Vlad Buriak, who has not been seen for 10 days
• Voices of war • Interview
38 days spent in the basement to survive the blockade, search for products and cooking at a bonfireunder the sound of explosions, mass graves and building the routeto salvation. It was all reported by Nikol, a resident of Mariupol, who with her sister and nephewwas able to use a humanitarian corridorand leave the ‘hot spot.’
The Russian invaders are reportedly planning to totally close off the besieged city of Mariupol and carry out so-called ‘filtration’ of the entire male population
Zoreslav Zamoisky, a freelance journalist from near Irpin (Kyiv oblast) is the seventh journalist to have been killed since Russia began its full invasion on 24 February
. “The world’s second army, it would seem, is only able to fight civilians”