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The youngest victim of Russia’s Bucha atrocities was less than two years old

It is two years since Ukraine’s Armed Forces liberated Bucha with the world learning of the atrocities that the Russians had committed there, and Putin ‘honouring’ the chief suspects of such war crimes

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia admits to passing death sentence against imprisoned Crimean Tatar civic journalist Amet Suleimanov

Russian doctors have acknowledged that the Crimean Solidarity civic journalist and political prisoner is gravely ill, but say he will be released only “twenty minutes before dying”

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Ukrainians banned from their homes as ‘undesirable elements’ by Russian invader

The aggressor state is forcing Ukrainians to go through gruelling interrogations and ‘filtration’ checks at Sheremetyevo airport, with many banned from their Ukrainian homeland for up to 10 years

• War crimes

No more tolerance to Putin’s regime!

An appeal from scholars of the world.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘One brother perished, the second was barely saved’ — the story of a resident of Zahaltsi

Svitlana Zamitailo lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The woman's family lost everything they had: their house and possessions. But the worst thing is that the war took the life of her brother, who was transporting people and humanitarian aid.

• War crimes

UN records 32 summary executions by Russia of Ukrainian prisoners of war since December

As well as evidence of Russians killing unarmed Ukrainian POWs, the UN monitors also found that virtually all Ukrainian POWs had been subjected to horrific levels of torture and ill-treatment

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Real terrorists free to act while Russian FSB tortures political prisoners for 'good statistics'

There may also be sinister reasons for Moscow’s failure to react to clear warnings of a terrorist threat, but the FSB’ have long been accustomed to fabricating terrorism, not fighting it

• War crimes

Russia’s fake ‘Donetsk republic’ moves to appropriate Ukrainians’ homes on occupied territory

Having destroyed people’s homes, and driven many Ukrainians into effective exile, the Russian invaders are now stealing their property

• 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