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Russia sentences abducted and tortured Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant engineer to 18 years on grotesque charges

Ukrainian engineer Serhiy Potynh is the latest of many employees of the plant abducted, tortured and then ‘tried’ on preposterous charges aimed at accusing Ukrainians of Russia’s terrorism

Russia’s ‘Azov trial’ – one Ukrainian POW tortured to death, 23 given monstrous sentences

One of Russia’s most cynical ‘trials’ has ended with 23 men and women sentenced to huge terms of imprisonment on insane ‘terrorism’ charges for serving, some way back, in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Azov Regiment

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Halyna Dovhopola turns 70, imprisoned in Russia for remaining true to Ukraine in occupied Crimea

It is very likely that Russia’s FSB came for Halyna because she had never concealed her opposition to Russia’s invasion of Crimea

‘We dream of becoming unnecessary’: the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative presents three-year report

On March 25, 2025, the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative released the results of its three years of work — nearly 85,000 documented war crimes and nine submissions to the International Criminal Court.

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

Russia’s most savage sentence yet against 66-year-old Ukrainian woman from occupied Crimea

The indictment seems copied verbatim from other such fabricated ‘trials’ of Ukrainians, but this time Russia is planning to imprison Nina Tymoshenko until she is 82

Russia’s enforced disappearances of Ukrainian civilians are crimes against humanity – UN Commission

These must not simply be harrowing details of Russian crimes, with the UN Commission stressing that judicial and non-judicial accountability are vital for ensuring sustainable peace.

Putin gives Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory until 10 September to get Russian citizenship or face deportation

This is part of very aggressive measures by the invading power to either foist Russian citizenship on Ukrainians living in occupied Ukraine, or force them out, with Moscow clearly bringing Russians in as part of its attempts to destroy Ukrainian identity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russians take away elderly Crimean Tatar veteran’s trailer where he lived after they demolished his home

Russia’s action in razing Rustem Useinov’s home to the ground was described in 2021 as a war crime. Now the same occupiers have taken away the 70-year-old’s trailer, his medicines and other items

Ukrainian POWs on surreal ‘trial’ expose Russia’s terrorism, its bombing of a children’s hospital and other war crimes

Sentences of up to 22 years are guaranteed from politically compliant ‘judges’, but the Ukrainians demolished all of Russia’s lies about their ‘trial’ and about its war crimes against Ukrainian civilians

Russia passes horrific sentence against young Ukrainian patriot after years of savage torture

Hryhory Sinchenko will be turning 34 on 11 May 2025 in a Russian prison. He has endured years of torture because of his sense of justice and opposition to Russia’s occupation of his native Donetsk oblast

Russians abduct and torture father and teenage son from occupied Luhansk oblast

The Russians abducted Artem Kudzhanov when he was just 19 and had held him for over a year, before his family even learned that he was alive. By then the Russians had also seized Artem’s father, Ibragim Kudzhanov

Putin 'threatens' Ukrainian POWs with war crimes Russia is already committing en masse

Russia has long used and tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war to try to rewrite the facts about its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is now using particularly cynical claims about men seized in Kursk oblast

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