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Ukraine identifies Russian soldiers suspected of gunning down unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war

There is also evidence that such appalling violations of international law have been committed under orders from military command

Horrific beheading of Ukrainian prisoner of war is part of Russia’s deliberate policy in war against Ukraine

The Russian invaders executed both Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians from February 2022, but the scale and openness about such atrocities against POWs have risen dramatically

Ukrainian sentenced to 12 years in Russia for Ukraine's national anthem, balloons and anti-war speech

Not only was Krystyna Liubashenko, the mother of two small daughters, charged with ‘military fakes’ and ‘terrorism’ for peaceful protest, but she was probably tricked into coming to Moscow

Putin youth movement teaches kids in occupied Mariupol to hate Ukraine and want to kill for Russia

Russia has now added the Putin-initiated ‘Movement of the First’ to its arsenal of youth organizations aimed at indoctrination and militarization of Ukrainian children in occupied Mariupol

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s Supreme Court upholds 11-year-sentence against Crimean Tatar religious scholar for ‘dissident’ views

Russia’s highest-ranking ‘judges’ are thus making themselves complicit in the persecution of Vadym Bektemirov for his views and civic activism in defence of political prisoners

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Don’t scare my children, take the assault rifle away’

Serhii Bobko, a resident of the occupied village of Bohdanivka, hid his daughters in the basement when a Russian soldier came to the house. Fortunately, no one was hurt that day. Serhii and his family soon left the village, and when he returned he found his house damaged and looted.

Russia calls defence of Ukraine ‘terrorism’ and passes long sentences against Ukrainian father and son POWs

Both father and son have been in captivity since April 2022 with the charges against them both grotesque and almost certainly based on ‘confessions’ extracted through torture

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean convicted of ‘discrediting Russian army’ for explaining why Ukraine will be victorious

Rustem Nebiev was persecuted for the map of Ukraine and the expressed conviction that Ukraine, supported by its people, must be victorious

Russia moves to change the ethnic makeup of occupied Ukraine by deporting Ukrainians and importing its own citizens

Russia is openly seeking to eradicate Ukrainian identity on Ukrainian territory, with one of the methods being to bring in its own people, very likely offering them ‘homes’ plundered from their Ukrainian owners

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crippling fine against Crimean Tatar newspaper accused of ‘discrediting’ Russia’s army

Russia will not tolerate any independent media, and Qirim has not been cowered into silence

Fake Russian occupation ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian POWs to 17 years for guarding Ukraine's territory

Instead of complying with international law and treating Vasyl Dmytriuk and Ivan Tereshchenko as prisoners of war, Russia concocted preposterous charges from 2018

Serious allegations still not addressed over Russian Red Cross links with Putin war machine

Damning details of the role played by the Russian Red Cross and its head, Petr Savchuk, and of the vital role not played by the International Committee of the Red Cross clearly need adequate response

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