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One politically motivated sentence which cost Hennadiy Lymeshko 8 years of his life and his daughter’s childhood would appear to not satisfy the Russians who have taken him prisoner again
• War crimes
Russia is turning both the law and history upside down in surreal ‘trials’ based on a flawed ruling passed many years after the Ukrainians served in legal divisions of Ukraine’s Armed Forces
It is possible that the mounting number of sentences against Ukrainians for donating money to help Ukraine's Armed Forces are aimed in part at terrorising the population, not least with the sense that surveillance is total
Age is no obstacle in Russia’s abductions, fake ‘trials’ and even killing of Ukrainians on occupied territory
• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Both Khalil Mambetov and his wife had serious health issues even before Russia's FSB ignored his age and charged him with 'violently planning to overthrow the regime with words and books
Not naming Russia as perpetrator of a horrific attack on a restaurant and children’s playground may avoid annoying Putin’s investment envoy, but it will not bring peace any closer
"The real terrorists are those who burst into the homes of people peacefully sleeping, who intimidate people who tell the truth; and who imprison people for their political and religious views.” - Vadim Siruk
Ivan Sarancha was just 15 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine but he understood the lies that Russia was telling, about Mariupol and Bucha, and understood that he stood with Ukraine
It is, unfortunately, very likely that Solodky was tortured after his abduction by the Russians, with the charges against him totally illegal, whether the young Ukrainian was involved in resistance work or not
Iryna Horobtsova was victim of a Russian enforced disappearance, with the aggressor state holding her incommunicado for two years before fabricating charges that incriminate them
Nine men abducted from Kherson and tortured for 'confessions' are now again facing torture in Russian SIZO-1 in Rostov, which is rapidly becoming as notorious as the Taganrog prison where 27-year-old journalist Victoria Roshchyna died
The fact that the FSB concealed the whereabouts of Tetiana Maliar, her brother and adult son and daughter for a week after they were taken away is likely to mean that they were subjected to torture