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The suggestion from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence that the video was prepared in advance would raise many disturbing questions, as does the behaviour of the authorities in the light of the warnings received
• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia’s first political persecution of 65-year-old Oleh Prykhodko was openly fabricated, and the later charges are particularly ominous as the same mechanism could be used to extend the sentences of other Ukrainian political prisoners
The 51-year-old poet was charged with ‘fakes’ about Russia’s armed forces and ‘calls to terrorism’ over a poem and post in which he spelled out Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine
• War crimes
Russia has staged another fake ‘trial’ on occupied territory and has already sentenced Ukrainian prisoners of war to hundreds of years’ imprisonment, accusing them of the war crimes that Russian armed forces are committing
In an 8-minute ‘court hearing’ in Lutfiye Zudiyeva’s absence, the journalist and human rights defender was found ‘guilty’ of an absurd charge over a very old Facebook post
• War crimes • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea
Russia’s leaders will be “shooting themselves in the foot” with this pitiful attempt to rewrite history, one legal expert has noted, since the question must arise why they recognized Ukraine’s borders from 1991 until the invasion
Russia’s new textbook for occupied Ukraine aims to brainwash Ukrainian children into believing that Ukraine is the aggressor state and Russia the country they should want to ‘defend’ with their lives
Kyrylo Rozumiey still bears the scars of the electric current torture that his Russian abductors used against a lad who was just 18 when seized
The UN report on earlier civilian attacks and systematic torture coincided with Russia’s barbaric attack on Odesa, where the first Russian missile targeted residential buildings, the second – the medics and rescuers who sped to the scene
Russia is seeking a new source of ‘recruits’ for its war against Ukraine, as well as a way of utilizing those ‘veterans’ who have committed new murders or other crimes since their first release from prison
It is not the fighters with machine guns, nor other methods to falsify the results, that make it imperative that the West refuses to recognize Putin’s supposed ‘re-election, but the fact that the farce is taking place on occupied territory
Russia’s persecution of 64-year-old Edem Dudakov is not only because of his position in the Crimean Tatar Qurultay, but because he has exposed Russia’s barbaric destruction of the vital 16th century Khan’s Palace