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Russians kill unarmed and wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war near Avdiivka

It is unclear whether the Russians hope that the two separate videos from near Avdiivka and Vesele will demoralize Ukraine’s defenders or whether they simply like boasting of their barbaric war crimes

Insane sentence and 18 months of agonizing silence after Russia abducts two friends for opposing its war against Ukraine

Yevhen Pryshliak and his friend, Artem Baranov, a 32-year-old lawyer, were seized by the Russians in occupied Nova Kakhovka on 12 August 2022, with Russia refusing to even say where they are held

• War crimes • Research

Nothing is sacred

The Russian occupiers destroyed hundreds of religious buildings and kidnapped, tortured, killed, and wounded dozens of priests... This was discussed at a press conference on the Russian occupier’s war crimes against Ukrainian religious communities and clergy.

Ukrainian priest abducted and tortured to death in Russian-occupied Kherson oblast

Father Stepan Podolchak from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine had refused to betray his oath and his congregation by transferring affiliation to the Moscow patriarchate

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Renowned Crimean Tatar lawyer detained and prosecuted for informing of illegal conscription into Russian army

This is the latest attack on a human rights lawyer whose tireless defence of political prisoners in occupied Crimea has made him a target for the occupation regime and renowned abroad.

Major report on Russia’s devastation of Mariupol demands that Putin and military leaders are held to answer

The report by Human Rights Watch and Truth Hounds is particularly important given Russia’s attempts to conceal the evidence of its crimes, and to try to blame Ukrainian defenders for such crimes

Ukrainian journalist abducted, tortured and sentenced to 13 years for writing about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

For all its secrecy about the ‘spying’ charges it laid against Serhiy Tsyhipa, Russia is scarcely trying to conceal that he was targeted for his patriotism and opposition to Russia’s invasion

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I am running away from the war, but it's catching up with me,’ — a resident of Kramatorsk

Svitlana Leonova has been fleeing the war since 2015. At that time, she moved from the temporarily occupied Shakhtarsk to Kramatorsk, but on 24 February 2022, the war came to her home. Now, she lives in a modular town in Borodianka and dreams of returning home most of all.

80-year-old wheelchair-bound Ukrainian rescued after being left within a pension in occupied Donbas for refusing to take Russian citizenship

Russia is using the poverty and chaos it has brought to occupied territory to force Ukrainians to take Russian passports or face dying without healthcare or being left with no means of survival

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia outlaws major Crimean Tatar human rights group which exposes its repression and calls for liberation of Crimea

It is likely that Russia waited until after the International Court of Justice judgement to ban an organization playing a vital role in exposing its crimes in occupied Crimea

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned violations of the rights of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation

The Committee’s recommendations responded to the issues raised in the joint report of the ADC Memorial and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.

71-year-old Ukrainian seized on fake 'spying' charges dies in Russian captivity

Almost nothing is known about Viktor Demchenko, however Russia was undoubtedly imprisoning him illegally and probably caused his death, as it did the deaths of Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyrinh

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