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• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Four

On the night of September 7-8, 2022, in the midst of our counteroffensive in the Slobozhanshchyna region, one and a half hundred Ukrainian prisoners escaped from a torture chamber set up by the Russian occupiers in the Kupiansk police station. Among them was the director of the Lesnostinkivsky Lyceum. We are concluding the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days behind bars.

Savagely tortured ‘Kherson Nine’ sentenced to 155 years in grotesque Russian show trial

The Russian aggressor state, while illegally occupying Kherson, abducted the nine Ukrainians from their homes, tortured them and came up with surreal charges of ‘international terrorism’

Deaths and medical torture through Russia's plunder and closure of hospitals in occupied Kherson oblast

The ill are left to die in occupied Ukraine without Russian citizenship. Or if they fall ill and need an ambulance after sunset

Increasingly absurd charges used for Russia’s monstrous sentences against Ukrainians on occupied territory

Why bother with credibility when sentences are guaranteed and when lawlessness only heightens the maximum terror against the population?

• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Three

During the occupation of the Kharkiv region, the Russians set up one of their torture chambers in the temporary detention facility at the Kupiansk police station. It was here that the occupiers imprisoned the director of the Lesnostenkivsky Lyceum, who categorically refused to cooperate with them. We continue the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days in Russian captivity.

Russia guns down more civilians, attacks passenger train while TV propagandists gloat that Ukrainians are freezing

Russian drones created an inferno, killing passengers on a train in Kharkiv oblast, in just one of multiple and deliberate attacks on innocent civilians

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Demand Russia obeys its own laws and releases blind Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov!

Please sign the petition and circulate it further. Russia’s imprisonment of Oleksandr Sizikov is in clear violation of Russia’s own legislation and publicity could just help at least get Oleksandr released as part of a prisoner exchange.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia fabricates charges to imprison Crimean Tatar activists and as weapon for deportation from their homeland

Russia has used horrific sentences in reprisal against those civic journalists and activists who refused to be silenced or to leave occupied Crimea. Now it is cynically using such fabricated charges as excuse for later driving them from Crimea

Third staged 'trial' and 28-year sentence against Ukrainian prisoner of war

Russia is using an absurd and internationally condemned supreme court ruling as pretext for accusing Ukrainian prisoners of war of ‘terrorism’ for defending their country against invaders

Three years in a penal isolator

That's how much time the Kremlin prisoner and Euromaidan activist Volodymyr Yakymenko spent in a detention center over the past eight and a half years of captivity. At the end of November, he was returned to a detention center for another 5 months.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brutal 12-year ‘treason’ sentences against Crimean woman with MS and her daughter, seized while her baby was in intensive care

Victoria Strilets needs care and ongoing medication to slow the development of her multiple sclerosis. Her daughter Oleksandra should be with her two small daughters, one of whom was fighting for her life when the Russians seized her mother

• Civic society • Publicistics

‘In the evening, your flag was hanging. In the morning, I look—it is our flag…’

These are the simple words of a night watchman at a cinema in Chortkiv—on 22 January 1973, he was interrogated by the KGB. For the impossible had happened: in the midst of a Ukrainian city in the era of Soviet stagnation, blue and yellow flags flew—over the market, the cinema, the teacher training college, and the school. On the Day of Unity of Ukraine, we tell the story of the young men who organised this action.

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