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Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna died after savage torture and extreme emaciation in Russian captivity

The 27-year-old journalist, who lived for her work, had travelled to occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast in order to find out about Russia’s torture prisons on occupied territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia destroys irreplaceable fresco in ongoing destruction of 16th century Crimean Tatar Khan’s Palace

Russia has been systematically, perhaps deliberately, destroying a monument which, before Russia’s invasion of Crimea, was on UNESCO’s list of potential World Heritage sites

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Fake Russian ‘court’ sentences abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee to 15 years on 'sabotage' charges

56-year-old Natalia Shulha has been held incommunicado for eight months, with the only 'videoed evidence' obviously faked and probably obtained under duress, if not physical torture

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Russia concocts ‘treason’ charges eight months after abducting young Crimean woman

The only likely reason for the cruel lies to Lera Dzhemilova's family and months held incommunicado is that the FSB were using torture, threats or other illegal pressure to extract a 'confession'

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Putin aide and war propagandists take over Russian ‘writers’ union’ while Ukrainian literature banned as ‘extremist’ in occupied Ukraine

The invaders attack on a monument to Taras Shevchenko is as Soviet as the so-called ‘writers union’ made up of men capable only of pushing lies and inciting to genocide against Ukraine

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Woman sentenced to 15 years for planning a ‘terrorist attack’ against Russian ‘Z’ war symbol in occupied Crimea

With impunity guaranteed for the Russian regime’s FSB and ‘courts’, no effort is made to present plausible charges to justify horrifically long sentences

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Children enlisted to shoot and burn effigies of European leaders as ‘enemies of Russia’ in occupied Donbas

Russian propaganda tried to justify the horrifying engagement of children in a violent stunt inciting to violence against those European leaders who remain firm in their support of Ukraine

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Crimean sentenced to 5 years for critical comments about Russia’s army on YouTube

While Russia claims that Crimeans are united behind its full-scale invasion, Valeriy Shevchuk is only the latest of very many Crimeans to face imprisonment or fines for supporting Ukraine

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Tortured Ukrainian doctors save victims of Russia’s medical torture in occupied Donbas

Surgeon Ihor Nazurenko and neuropathologist Yury Shapovalov have paid a huge price for their open opposition to Russia’s proxy ‘Donetsk republic’

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A forced ‘peace’ without Crimea means a carte blanche for Russia to continue its crimes against Ukraine

Crimean Tatars prevented Moscow from staging a coup without open invasion 11 years ago and have faced savage repression ever since. Acceptance of Russia’s occupation of any part of Ukraine would be a betrayal and dangerous

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Crimean Tatar sentenced to 18 years in Russian secret ‘trial’ where only torture is near certain

The only likely reason for holding Ruslan Mambetov incommunicado for over a month is that the FSB wanted to extract 'confessions' through torture in order to concoct yet another such 'treason' trial

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Putin declares commander accused of torturing and killing civilians in Ukraine a ‘hero of Russia’

Putin has ‘honoured’ both Anton Struyev, and his 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, other members of which are accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child and gangraping her mother in occupied Kyiv oblast