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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
• War crimes
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
Online press conference: On the tragic anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine the UN Special Rapporteur, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and human rights groups demand to free all captives of war.
To date, personal data of 7,225 witnesses and victims of international crimes allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers, as well as 117 probable perpetrators of such crimes, have been recorded by our organization in the Kharkiv Region.
Three Years Since the Beginning of Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
Children in all occupied parts of Ukraine will be told that Russia’s full-scale invasion was not about military aggression, unprecedented since World War II, but about ‘reinstating historical justice’
Russia’s massive increase in so-called ‘treason’ cases is, in part, because Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory are being abducted, usually tortured and sentenced to 10 years or more for donations to Ukrainian defenders
• Politics
Democracy in war time must be protected even more than during peace time because the cost of a mistake or loss of trust is extremely high.
Russia can no longer deny its responsibility for civilian hostages first seized and savagely tortured in occupied Donetsk oblast in 2017-18, including Ihor Kirianenko whose life it is directly endangering
Putin has long sought to control Ukraine through elections, but this time the dictator's lies have been taken up by the new US President who not only called Ukraine's President a 'dictator' but also accused him of causing Russia's full-scale invasion
This is the first trial where the defendant is present, but is by no means the first evidence of orders issued by Russian commanders to kill captured soldiers
It is unclear where Anastasia Todurova, a mother with small children, was supposed to have hidden explosives, nor what kind of ‘terrorist act’ the FSB claim to have thwarted