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‘Three and a half years of search for my Yura’

The headwoman of the village of Tavilzhanka, Svitlana Moroz, survived interrogations in a Russian torture chamber. Then the occupiers kidnapped her husband. The Moroz family’s home is still in the occupation zone. And Svitlana is looking everywhere for any trace of her Yura.

Ukrainian political prisoner tells Russian court of torture after which you’ll sign anything

Russia has unleashed terror against civilians on all occupied territory yet abducts and charges Ukrainians with ‘terrorism’ for acts of resistance against entirely legitimate targets

Deliberately concealed mass grave of Russia’s victims found in occupied Mariupol

Not only are there no signs to indicate that this is a burial site, but construction rubble appears to have been used to try to ensure that people did not find out

• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukraine bypassed as Russian archaeologist wanted for crimes in occupied Crimea freed in 'Poland - Belarus' exchange

It is truly wonderful that Andrzej Poczobut has been freed, but frustrating that Ukraine was not told about a ‘deal’ seemingly involving the US administration, as well as Moscow

One Out of Ten. Russians Tortured a Kherson Environmental Officer to Death

In 2022, Russian security services abducted ten civilian residents of Kherson, accusing them of preparing a terrorist attack. Nine lived to see trial.

Russia sentences abducted and tortured Melitopol journalists to 26 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel

Russia’s standard ‘spying’ and ‘terrorism’ charges cannot conceal the fact that Denys Hlushchenko, Oleksandr Malyshev and other young Ukrainians were abducted and sentenced for reporting the truth about life under Russian occupation

• Voices of war

A Museum of Childhood in Unchildlike Times

We meet Valery Leiko in the apartment, which is filled to capacity with exhibits from his Museum that were salvaged after a fire. A Museum dedicated to perhaps the most peaceful topic—childhood. We discuss calligraphy lessons in bomb shelters, how toys shape a child’s future, and why some will grow up to be doctors or astronauts while others will become occupiers.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean pensioner sentenced to six years for social media comments against Russian aggression

The comment might rile the Russian regime, but Serhiy Obushny wanted Ukrainian drones to hit a military target unlike Russian drones used constantly to kill civlians

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Secret Russian court upholds ‘foreign agent’ repression against Crimean Tatar human rights defender Lutfiye Zudiyeva

Russia claimed, among other things, that Zudiyeva had received foreign money because of small amounts her husband paid into her account for daily expenses

EU follows Ukraine in holding Russians to account for illegal excavations in occupied Crimea

The sanctioning of individuals involved in Russian illegal excavations in occupied Crimea and plunder is belated, but welcome, as was the ruling in Poland opening the way for the extradition of Alexander Butyagin

26-year-old Ukrainian sentenced to 22 years for alleged ‘plan to kill’ a Russian occupation prison chief

Victoria Kotliar was just 24 when seized by the Russians and probably tortured or threatened into ‘confessing’ on video

Russian occupation court sentences 66-year-old doctor to 14 years for supporting Ukraine through war bonds

Larysa Bieliaieva would be 80 if she survived the 14-year sentence in the horrific conditions of Russian prisons,

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