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Three men abducted from Kherson oblast, tortured and ‘sentenced’ twice for Russian propaganda

Russia’s hostage-taking and torture of civilians from occupied territory makes it terrifyingly easy to pass secretive ‘sentences’, then duplicate and/or report them when politically convenient

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘He raised his machine gun and started shooting at’

Mykhailo Tepliuk from Bohdanivka (a village in Kyiv Region) was walking home when a Russian soldier sitting on a tank started shooting at him. The first two bul-lets pierced his knee, while the third tore off his hat and grazed his temple. Later the Russians came to his house looking for weapons, even searching the first floor.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia totally destroys Chersonese UNESCO site in grotesque attempt to justify Crimean occupation

It may be hard to imagine one of the invaders of England creating a ‘New Stonehenge’, aimed at staking their ‘historical right to the territory’, but that is what Russia is doing with Chersonese in occupied Crimea

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brutal Russian reprisals against prominent lawyer defending Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

The offensive against Alexei Ladin is overtly aimed at punishing independent lawyers defending the ever-mounting number of victims of Russian terror on occupied territory, and at deterring others from demonstrating such courage

• War crimes

Ukrainian DJ tortured and held hostage since early 2022 ‘for opposing Russia’s operation against Ukraine’

Andriy Varvarov is one of as many as 20 thousand Ukrainian civilians, illegally abducted by the Russian invaders

• Voices of war   • Interview

Tortured and killed — civilians of the village of Moshchun

During the occupation of Moshchun (a village in Kyiv Region), the Russian military did not spare civilians. Olha Ivanenko's grandfather was found with three bullet wounds in his head. Olha still cannot understand why the Russians killed the 74-year-old disabled man.

• Events

Ukrainian faces 9-year sentence in Russia on surreal ‘secret cooperation with Ukraine’ charge

The suspicion is strong that Petro Opalnik’s indictment could simply read:‘Ukrainian’

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The Russians deliberately took Ukrainian children out in groups’

How Russians complicate the search for Ukrainian children, bullying of Ukrainians in European schools, family reunification - Maryna Lypovetska talks about the difficulties and joys in the work of the “Magnolia Child Tracing Service”.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Death by Russian imprisonment for monitoring repression in occupied Crimea

Instead of releasing Tofik Abdulgaziev as required by Russia’s own legislation, the prosecution has found medical personnel willing to lie and claim that he does not have the life-threatening conditions already diagnosed

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia demolishes last Ukrainian Orthodox church in occupied Crimea

Russia’s attack on the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea began immediately after its invasion, and it has used all forms of terror and lawlessness to try to drive the Church out

• War crimes

Russia destroys monuments to Victims of Holodomor and Stalin’s Terror in occupied Luhansk

Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is accompanied on all occupied territory by efforts to destroy historical memory and Ukrainian identity

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

75-year-old among three Ukrainians abducted and tortured by Russian FSB on fake ‘terrorism’ charges

Russia's FSB have been fabricating 'Ukrainian saboteur plots' since soon after the invasion of Crimea, and there are no grounds for believing this plot to be any different, except that one of the victims, Volodymyr Ananiev is 75 and disabled