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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

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

Kremlin celebrates as Trump administration cuts key source of information about Russia’s crimes in occupied Ukraine

The Trump administration appears bent on silencing Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, something Moscow tried but failed to achieve and that will only help escalate its repression and crimes in occupied Ukraine

Russian neo-Nazi mercenary sentenced to life in Finland for war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky / Voislav Torden, co-founder of the notorious Rusich far-right mercenary group, claimed to have never committed the war crimes about which he and fellow neo+Nazi Alexei Milchakov very publicly boasted

Abducted Crimean Tatar political prisoner dies in Russian captivity

Russia bears full responsibility for the death in its custody of 60-year-old Rustem Viratti, who should never have been held prisoner.

Forced 'to wake up a foreign citizen in her own country’. Kateryna Korovina sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russia’s occupation

Russia’s information blockade in occupied Ukraine makes it chillingly difficult to know how many victims are even referred to, but this latest sentence was for donations worth less than 11 euros

Crimean sentenced to 24 years for supposed assassination attempt on notorious player in Russia's war against Ukraine

Little is known about 47-year-old Petro Zhytsky, however the speed of the FSB arrest and the claims of 'irrefutable evidence' based on his 'confession' while held incommunicado are disturbingly familiar

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Unending punitive psychiatry against tortured Crimean Tatar human rights activist

Yunus Masharipov was almost certainly targeted and tortured back in 2018 by Russia’s FSB for his human rights monitoring in occupied Yalta. His unwavering demand for justice has resulted in indefinite imprisonment in a ‘psychiatric hospital’

Young Ukrainian sentenced to 10 years in Russian-occupied Luhansk oblast for supporting Ukraine’s defenders

Russia nay well be creating bank accounts to catch patriotic Ukrainians on occupied territory and then fabricate surreal charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Death sentence and persecution of Crimean Tatar family in Russia’s war against Crimean Solidarity

Russia’s persecution of four members of one family, as well as of a gravely ill civic journalist is chillingly reminiscent of the methods of terror use by Stalin’s regime against the three brothers’ great-grandfather

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