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Russia's new 'elite': hired killers, murderers and violent rapists freed to fight against Ukraine

Pardoned by Putin to kill Ukrainians, those Russian convicted criminals who died are now the subject of memorial plaques in schools and other measures to honour their ‘heroism’

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Ukraine initiates war crimes probe over gunning down by Russians of two Ukrainian prisoners of war

As with Russia’s atrocities in Bucha, it is likely that the videos showing horrific war crimes against Ukrainian prisoners of war are part of Russia’s ‘military strategy’ against Ukraine

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Russia bombs children’s hospital while sentencing Ukrainian POWs to life ‘for killing civilians’

Russia is systematically targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians while torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war to force them into effectively ‘confessing’ to Russia’s war crimes

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Abducted, tortured and sentenced by Russian invaders for joining a Ukrainian organization in Ukraine

There is nothing to suggest that Pavlo Zozuliuk ever was a member of Right Sector, an organization that Russia has demonized since 2014, and has now used for this immensely cynical and legally nihilistic show trial

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We must condemn communismʼ,— Refat Chubarov

Interview with the leader of the Crimean Tatars.

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Russia boasts of “strike objectives achieved’ as death toll rises from missile strikes on Ukraine’s main children’s hospital, other civilian targets

While the official line is that Russia did not bomb the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital on 8 July, nor any other target, pro-Kremlin social media is actively pushing various lies, or openly gloating

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Russia charges Ukrainian from occupied Melitopol with ‘calls to terrorism’ for old social media post about Putin

Russia is intensifying terror in occupied Ukraine with Ukrainians seized for social media posts from long before its full-scale invasion

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Ukrainian-born paediatrician faces long sentence on ‘fake news’ charge based on true words about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Although effectively charged solely with telling the harsh truth, it is possible that 68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova, who is from Lviv, was simply a convenient target

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

More sentences passed, one escalated for studying the Bible in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is continuing to find Ukrainian Jehovah's Witnesses, in this case Serhiy Parfenovych and Yury Herashchenko guilty of ‘organizing extremist activities’ for practising their faith

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Ukrainian POW wounded, but survives after the Russians gun down four of his comrades after they surrendered

Yevhen Roman was left for dead by the Russians who killed four other unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war in cold blood, an undoubted war crime

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

Russia resorts to fake medical assessments to conceal death sentence against Crimean Tatar civic journalist Amet Suleimanov

The Russians implicated in imprisoning Amet Suleimanov for reporting Russian repression in Crimea are willing to cause his death rather than ‘risk’ releasing a political prisoner

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Pensioner jailed in Russian-occupied Crimea for expressing support for Ukraine in a shop

The prosecution of 63-year-old Anatoliy Holiakovych and, seemingly, his son, underscores the pro-Ukrainian and anti-war sentiments in occupied Crimea, and the sinister methods Russia uses to fight them