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5-year sentence in Russian-occupied Berdiansk for social media posts about defenders of Ukraine

Everything about Russia's seizure, likely torture and 'trial' of Mykola Holubov was both cynical and in glaring violation of international law

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean woman detained and charged with calls to ‘violence against Russians’ for supporting Ukraine on social media

Tetiana Bibik is one of an ever-increasing number of Crimean Ukrainians terrorised to extract supposed 'apologies' and deceived, since she is still facing a possible 5-year sentence for pro-Ukrainian social media posts

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Medvedev states clearly that Russia will not stop until it seizes all of Ukraine

Any promises that ‘peace’ can be achieved in a day ignore the fact that Russia’s leaders are making it quite clear that they will not stop in their attempts to destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state

• War crimes

Russia 'sentences' OSCE Monitoring Mission official to 14 years on fake spying charges

The charges against Vadym Golda were grotesque and an attack on OSCE, whose drones regularly recorded the military hardware that Russia was illegally bringing to occupied Donbas

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

63-year-old Crimean Tatar violently detained and jailed for comments in support of the Mejlis and Ukraine

Russia’s use of ‘Crimean SMERSH’ to hunt out and terrorise Crimeans for their pro-Ukrainian position is always disturbing, but there are other worrying elements here also

• War crimes   • Events

Russia's new 'elite': hired killers, murderers and violent rapists freed to fight against Ukraine

Pardoned by Putin to kill Ukrainians, those Russian convicted criminals who died are now the subject of memorial plaques in schools and other measures to honour their ‘heroism’

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Ukraine initiates war crimes probe over gunning down by Russians of two Ukrainian prisoners of war

As with Russia’s atrocities in Bucha, it is likely that the videos showing horrific war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war are part of Russia’s ‘military strategy’ against Ukraine

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Russia bombs children’s hospital while sentencing Ukrainian POWs to life ‘for killing civilians’

Russia is systematically targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians while torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war to force them into effectively ‘confessing’ to Russia’s war crimes

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Abducted, tortured and sentenced by Russian invaders for joining a Ukrainian organization in Ukraine

There is nothing to suggest that Pavlo Zozuliuk ever was a member of Right Sector, an organization that Russia has demonized since 2014, and has now used for this immensely cynical and legally nihilistic show trial

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We must condemn communismʼ,— Refat Chubarov

Interview with the leader of the Crimean Tatars.

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Russia boasts of “strike objectives achieved’ as death toll rises from missile strikes on Ukraine’s main children’s hospital, other civilian targets

While the official line is that Russia did not bomb the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital on 8 July, nor any other target, pro-Kremlin social media is actively pushing various lies, or openly gloating

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Russia charges Ukrainian from occupied Melitopol with ‘calls to terrorism’ for old social media post about Putin

Russia is intensifying terror in occupied Ukraine with Ukrainians seized for social media posts from long before its full-scale invasion