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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

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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

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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

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Agree to kill Ukrainians and Russia will free all but political prisoners

Russia is seeking a new source of ‘recruits’ for its war against Ukraine, as well as a way of utilizing those ‘veterans’ who have committed new murders or other crimes since their first release from prison

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Russia registers double the possible number of ‘voters for Putin’ in occupied Ukraine, while intensifying pressure at gunpoint

It is not the fighters with machine guns, nor other methods to falsify the results, that make it imperative that the West refuses to recognize Putin’s supposed ‘re-election, but the fact that the farce is taking place on occupied territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

FSB violently detain renowned activist and Crimean Tatar National Assembly delegate

Russia’s persecution of 64-year-old Edem Dudakov is not only because of his position in the Crimean Tatar Qurultay, but because he has exposed Russia’s barbaric destruction of the vital 16th century Khan’s Palace

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Russia’s supreme court rejects proof of innocence in favour of tortured-out ‘confession’ from Ukrainian human rights defender and POW

Prominent Ukrainian human rights defender, journalist and prisoner of war, Maksym Butkevych could not have committed the ‘crimes’ Russia claimed, yet this was of no concern to Russia’s supreme court

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘It was impossible to endure here,’ — a resident of Borodianka

Hanna Shmorhun is a resident of the notorious house at 353 Central Street in Borodianka. She hid in a private home with her neighbors, but it was not safe there either. The Russians bombarded houses with tanks, shot people in the streets, and buried the dead in a ditch.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia uses Siberia for maximum vengeance against imprisoned Crimean Tatar journalist Remzi Bekirov and his family

Remzi Bekirov refused to be silent about Russia’s repression in occupied Crimea, and for that Russia is punishing him, and his entire family

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Russians with machine guns ensure occupied Ukraine ‘votes’ for Putin

Few will fail to 'vote for Putin' when there's a fighter with a machine gun accompanying the 'ballot box', but the Russians are also using other methods, as well as exploiting children for 'election' propaganda

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Ukrainian journalist and former editor abducted from Russian-occupied Henichesk

While the pretext is new, Hennadiy Osmak is one of an ever-growing number of Ukrainian journalists abducted on territory under Russian occupation

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Russia sentences Ukrainian marine to 20 years for defending Mariupol

Dmytro Yevhan is the latest of around 300 Ukrainian prisoners of war whom Russia has tortured into ‘confessing’ to the crimes the Russian invaders themselves were committing