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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘A helicopter is flying, I look — a rocket is heading towards us...’

Oleksandr Hanziichuk is a resident of Borodianka in the Kyiv Region. The man lived there with his elderly mother and tried to save her from the bombing. At first, people hid in basements and later miraculously escaped from this hell.

• War crimes

Russia bribes soldiers with land plundered from real owners in occupied Ukraine

Russia is forcing Ukrainians to take Russian citizenship and personally confirm ownership or face losing their homes on occupied territory

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian scientist banned from occupied Crimea and his elderly mother in reprisal for refusing Russian citizenship

Guriy Kornilyev formally rejected Russian citizenship “to not give Putin the chance to claim to be protecting him”. Russia’s revenge is brutal

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffers heart attack in torture-like Russian prison

Russia is now directly endangering the lives of two recognized political prisoners persecuted as part of its attack on the Crimean Tatar human rights movement

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean sentenced to 5 years for Ukrainian Yellow Ribbon activism against Russian occupation

The ‘Yellow Ribbon’ movement does not gel well with Russia’s false narrative aimed at justifying its occupation of Ukrainian Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We will be in Ukraine until the end,’ a Canadian volunteer says in Kharkiv

Paul Hughes’ organization carried out more than 300 missions in Ukraine. During one of them, a Canadian was interrogated for eight hours by the Russians.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia sentences Crimean to 8 years on 'treason' and 'terrorism' charges for wanting to defend Ukraine

Albert Kruhlov never concealed his opposition to Russia’s occupation of Crimea, and is imprisoned for his support for Ukraine, whether or not he was genuinely seized while seeking to join the Azov Regiment

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted Crimean Tatar political prisoner tortured in Russian prison

Rustem Osmanov was abducted from his home in occupied Kherson oblast and then 'tried' in occupied Crimea on the basis of a 'confession' tortured out of him. That torture is ongoing in Russian captivity

• War crimes

Russians gun down disabled Ukrainian woman in wheelchair in savage offensive against Kharkiv oblast

Updated information has confirmed that the Russians murdered two elderly civilians, including a woman in a wheelchair

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar newspaper editor prosecuted for telling Crimeans not to fight Russia's war against Ukraine

68-year-old Bekir Mamutov and the founder of Qirim are facing two of Russia’s arsenal of silencing norms, including one rushed into legislation after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

• Publicistics

The 80th Anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars

80 years ago, on May 18, 1944, in dark predawn hours, the National Tragedy of Crimea had begun. The uniformed soldiers of Soviet KGB troops knocked at the doors of Crimean Tatars houses...

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

64-year-old pensioner jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea for social media posts of a Ukrainian Trident and thanking Ukraine's defenders

Maria Zamyrailo-Levytska is the latest of many Ukrainians to be hunted down by the notorious 'Crimean SMERSH' and then prosecuted on surreal charges for supporting Ukraine