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• Freedom of conscience and religion

Dmytro Vovk: Is it possible to ban the Ukranian Orthodox Church?

In the first reading, the Verkhovna Rada adopted draft law No. 8371 on the prohibition of religious organizations that have a center of influence in the Russian Federation. The essence of the draft law, whether this ban is proportional, and how it will affect the relationship between the Ukrainian state and the church are discussed in this article.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar imprisoned for refusal to ‘publicly repent’ protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine

The one-year sentence against Dilyaver Salimov highlights the malignant role played by notorious informer Aleksandr Talipov and the reprisals Ukrainians face if they refuse to 'apologise' for pro-Ukrainian views on video

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘240 houses were razed to the ground, and 700 were damaged’ — resident of the village of Zahaltsi

Oleksandr Voinalovych lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. He is a former employee of the State Emergency Service. When a full-scale war began, and there were already many occupiers around the village, Oleksandr evacuated women and children by school bus.

• War crimes

Russia uses ISIS terror attack, Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and propaganda lies to accuse Ukraine of its terrorism

The claims made by tortured terror suspects are absurd, but are being accompanied by a huge propaganda drive aimed at linking Ukraine with terrorism, as well, possibly, as with drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

• War crimes

Russia admits to holding Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk two years after abducting him

After two years of evident lies, the Russians appear to be claiming that Khyliuk, an UNIAN journalist, was a 'military serviceman'. They have yet to admit to be holding award-winning journalist Victoria Roshchyna

• War crimes

Ukraine initiates war crimes probe after Russians kill unarmed Ukrainian POWs in Kherson oblast

The number of such killings of Ukrainian POWs has increased dramatically since November 2023 and it seems likely that this is, at very least, condoned by those at the top in Russia's military

• War crimes

Russia sentences abducted Ukrainian Baptist volunteer to 20 years on insane ‘terrorism’ and ‘spying’ charges

Both Margarita Kharenko and Serhiy Avramenko were seized by the Russians from their homes in Melitopol in January 2023, and very likely subjected to torture

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I told the Russians at the checkpoints that I was going to Azovstal’

The superstar volunteer from Mariupol says he fought his way into the besieged city several times while the Russian army continually bombed it.

• War crimes

Mariupol man abducted, tortured and sentenced in Russia to 16 years for defending Ukraine in 2016

Denys Lisovets and his aunt were fleeing Russian bombs on his native Mariupol when he was seized by the Russians who first tortured him, and then came up with immensely cynical charges based solely on his defence of his country

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

25-year-old Crimean Tatar mother ‘on trial’ for failing to report a 2016 social media conversation to Russia’s FSB

Putin’s Russia has long worked to reinstate the Soviet system of denunciations, with the FSB using an ‘elastic’ norm about failure to denounce as a weapon of repression in occupied Crimea

• War crimes

Abducted Ukrainians tortured into claiming Ukraine carried out Russia’s attack on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Oleh Morochkovsky, sentenced to 11 years for ‘spying’, was one of two Ukrainians tortured into claiming that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that had attacked the largest nuclear power station in Europe

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We prayed aloud all the way,’ says deacon Mykola Serdiuk, describing how his family left their occupied village.

At the beginning of the war, Mykola Serdiuk was with his family in the occupied vil-lage of Havrylivka near Hostomel (Kyiv Region). To leave, they had to sneak through Russian checkpoints at their own risk. They saw columns of Russian tanks, smashed cars in ditches, but with God's help and prayer they made it to safety.

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