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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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar newspaper founder convicted of ‘infringing freedom of information’ for UN report on Russian violations

The fine imposed is cripplingly high, with this only one of several such prosecutions which appear aimed at crushing a valuable source of truthful information

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Even Ukrainian-controlled territory claimed as ‘Russian’ by aggressor state’s school curriculum

Not only is Putin claiming more Ukrainian territory than Russia is occupying, but school students must repeat these lies or fail their school-leaving exam

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Fake Russian ‘court’ imprisons abducted Ukrainian journalist for membership of non-existent organization

Stripped of the aggressor state’s fake coating, the charges brought against Hennadiy Osmak may well pertain solely to his truthful coverage of the legitimate blockade of Russian occupied Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My mother died, unable to bear that horror’

Serhii Parfuliuk is a resident of the village of Moshchun (Kyiv Region). His house was completely destroyed by shelling, and his mother died after being evacuated, unable to bear the horrors of war.

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Russia imprisons Mariupol pensioner on ‘terrorism’ charges after someone's attempt on fake ‘mayor’

It is likely that both 57-year-old Mykola Zabirko from Mariupol and Iryna Kulish from Zaporizhzhia oblast were abducted and held incommunicado, with Russian methods of 'investigation' typically confined to torture

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Halyna Dovhopola is almost 70 and facing 7 more years of torment in Russian captivity for her love of Ukraine

Russia has blocked all information about the insane charges against the Ukrainian pensioner from occupied Crimea, but could not conceal the fact that she is a political prisoner