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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The Russians killed people with bestial cruelty’

Red Cross volunteer Mykhailo Tulskyi was under occupation in Borodianka and saw with his own eyes the terrible crimes committed by the Russian military against civilians and military personnel. The man is now being treated for PTSD.

• War crimes

Ukrainian POW sentenced to life for defending Mariupol in brutal Russian replay of fake occupation court ‘trial’

Russia has plunged to a new low with its staged ‘appeal’ and life sentence against a Ukrainian prisoner of war seized while defending Mariupol

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Solidarity activist and political prisoner in critical condition in Russian prison hospital

Russia has already killed one of the 25 Crimean Tatar civic activists and journalists arrested in its 2019 attack on the human rights movement, and it is now placing Tofik Abdulgaziev’s life in danger

• Events

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

Nine-and-a-half-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

• Events

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