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Russian propaganda TV broadcast deepfake video to blame Ukraine for Moscow terrorist attack

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

9.5-year sentence minus 1 month for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine and Russia an illegal invader

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

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Russia sentences poet Aleksandr Byvshev to 7 years for writing of its war crimes in Ukraine

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 tortures more Ukrainian POWs and sentences them en masse to 27 years for defending Ukraine

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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Renowned Crimean Solidarity journalist convicted of 'abusing' freedom of mass information in Russian-occupied Crimea

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 moves to ‘revoke’ Soviet decree recognizing Crimea as part of Ukraine

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

• War crimes

New textbook for occupied territory tells children that Ukraine burns all Russian books and serves ‘Blood of a russky’ cocktails

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

• War crimes

Russians abduct 18-year-old from occupied Nova Kakhovka and torture out ‘confession to spying’

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

• War crimes

UN report demolishes Russia’s attempts to blame Ukrainian POWs for its atrocities in Mariupol

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

• War crimes

Agree to kill Ukrainians and Russia will free all but political prisoners

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

• War crimes

Russia registers double the possible number of ‘voters for Putin’ in occupied Ukraine, while intensifying pressure at gunpoint

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

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

FSB violently detain renowned activist and Crimean Tatar National Assembly delegate

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