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Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ used to get Ukrainians on occupied territory to fight against Ukraine

Russia has dropped any pretence that membership of Yunarmia is voluntary, and that it is not linked with trying to force young Ukrainians to fight and die for the invading state

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Occupation 'court' increases sentence against abducted Crimean Tatar for not admitting to fictitious ‘crime’

58-year-old Akim Gafarov, who was seized from occupied Kherson oblast back in 2022, was also deemed to not be ill enough despite serious health issues

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean imprisoned for criticising blocking of YouTube in occupied Ukraine and Russia

Suleiman Yusupov was hunted down by the notorious CrimeanSMERSH, forced to ‘repent’ on video and ‘tried’ for asking why others were silent when Russia was trying to crush their freedom

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Russians carry out terror raids of families with school-age children in occupied Kherson oblast

Such aggressive methods to eradicate anything but Russian propaganda-filled ‘schools’ may well be because of continued resistance to Russian occupation

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Abducted Ukrainian labelled a ‘zombie’ and charged with ‘terrorism’ for supporting Ukraine and calling Russia an invader

Kostiantyn Zinovkin is one of hundreds of people from Melitopol seized and tortured by the Russians, with charges laid after weeks or months held incommunicado

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Savage torture and 11-year sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Kherson

Ukrainians came out everyday in protest at Russia’s occupation of Kherson in early 2022. Russia reacted both by opening fire and by abducting peaceful protesters like Serhiy Arefiev whom they then tortured and ‘tried’ on spying charges

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Russia fabricates insane charges against Ukrainian partisan first seized in Donetsk 8 years ago

Everything about Russia’s ‘trial’ of Hryhory Sinchenko is profoundly illegal, with it likely that torture has been applied to try to force him to give up his independent lawyer

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Ukraine lodges war crimes probe after Russians shoot unarmed Ukrainian POWs in the back

Russia is not hiding such executions, quite the contrary, with this probably part of deliberate policy

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Russian propagandist and soldiers openly boast of looting homes in occupied Ukraine

Yulia Chicherina and the Russian soldiers showing off their 'trophy' clearly know that they need fear no consequences for admitting to a war crime. Why would they if Putin has 'honoured' numerous suspected war criminals?

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB come for 70-year-old mother of imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev

Zodiye Saliyeva is a veteran of the Crimean Tatar national movement and no stranger to repression. Russia is now imprisoning her son on the same grotesque charges used under Stalin to execute her grandfather

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Court in Russia rules that 20-year sentence against Ukrainian POW for defending Mariupol is not long enough

It is possible that the increase in the already horrific and illegal sentence against imprisoned marine Dmytro Yevhan was because he retracted 'confessions' in court, stating that they had been extracted through torture

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19-year-old from occupied Donbas sentenced to 12 years for donation for Ukrainian defenders

The methods are truly chilling, with Russia clearing wanting the population of occupied territory to be terrorized into silence and submission