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Student abducted when he was 18 faces 20-year sentence for remaining true to Ukraine, not Russia

Vladyslav Vidlatsky has been in Russian captivity for two years, with the charges against him very likely to be solely based on 'confessions' extracted through torture

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Russia sentences another Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee to 14 years for supporting Ukraine

Russia began abducting and torturing Ukrainian employees of the nuclear plant back in 2022, with Lilia Kachkariova the latest of several women to have been targeted

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Ukraine frees abducted teacher after four years of torment in Russian-occupied Donetsk

Natalia Shylo was seized and imprisoned on fake ‘spying’ charges based on social media posts when she tried to visit her sick mother in occupied Horlivka

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Russia passes copy-pasted 12-year ‘spying sentence almost three years after abducting Ukrainian teenager

Artem Kudzhanov was just 19 when seized by the Russians, tortured and forcibly disappeared, with the 'spying' charges only appearing very recently

• Events

Terrifying twist in Russia’s persecution of Ukrainian political prisoner Hennadiy Lymeshko

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

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Ukrainian abducted to Russia and sentenced to 18 years for defending Ukraine in 2015

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

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Chilling surveillance methods as Russia sentences Ukrainian to 10 years for donation to defend Ukraine

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

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Russia sentences 17-year-old lad from occupied Ukraine to 6.5 years on ‘treason’ charges

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

Russia seeks effective death sentence against 69-year-old Crimean Tatar political prisoner and horrific sentences against five others

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

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With nine children killed in Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih, why would the USA (again) avoid blaming Russia?

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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian occupiers terrorize and threaten wife of Crimean political prisoner Vadim Siruk

"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

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18-year-old escapes Russian-occupied Luhansk in search of “Ukraine and freedom”

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