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• 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

• War crimes

Russian propagandist justifies missile strike on Ukraine’s main children’s hospital because Ukrainians 'are not people'

Those who incite to genocide typically attempt to dehumanize their victims, but it is disturbing that Andrei Perla’s ‘justification’ for Russia’s killing and maiming of sick children has elicited so little reaction

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia imprisons one abducted Crimean Tatar on lawless charges, then comes back for his brothers

Russia has ramped up insane charges over a civic organization involved in the entirely legal and legitimate Crimean Blockade, in part to justify its abductions and terror in occupied parts of Kherson oblast

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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’

• War crimes

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