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Russia sentences Luhansk woman to 16 years for sheltering two defenders of Ukraine

The aggressor state claimed that Yulia Mosiak, a Ukrainian citizen, “decided to commit treason” (under Russian legislation!) by protecting the Ukrainian defenders of her own country

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB carry out armed 'inspection' of Crimean Tatar journalist's home, take her away for interrogation

This act of intimidation was one of the increasingly aggressive methods that Russia has used against journalists and civic activists in occupied Crimea

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Russia’s ‘Dr Evil’ charged over savage torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war

Russia has systematically tortured Ukrainian POWs in most places of imprisonment. In Mordovian Prison Colony No. 10, however, the most notorious torturer was a medical worker

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Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine

An IT specialist earlier called the installation of Russia's MAX messenger app "equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service”. On occupied territory, it's anything but voluntary

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57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar

Larysa Malovychko has already been in Russian captivity for over two years, with it likely that she was seized because of her pro-Ukrainian position

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Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges

Russia’s ‘filtration’, aimed at ferreting out those seen as too ‘pro-Ukrainian’ is already profoundly illegal, with the details of how criminal charges are concocted, positively terrifying

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Ukraine charges four Russian commanders over deadly missile strike on Kryvyi Rih playground

Nine children, the youngest just three, were killed in a missile strike that had no possible military target

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Russia churns out mass sentences for ‘spying’, with only the part of occupied Ukraine varying

The following were just those sentences on one day in November where the names of Russia's victims are known

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‘War tourism’ plans for Mariupol and other cities Russia first mercilessly bombed

Although hampered by Russia’s destruction and ongoing fighting, such ‘tourism’ would be based on the fakes, false narrative and aggressive propaganda which Russia has been pushing since 2014

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Monstrous sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist and activists seized in Russian retaliation for a humiliating attack by Ukraine

Sentences of up to 19 years were passed despite the only verifiable ‘evidence’ being an innocuous conversation about Muslim daily prayers seven years earlier

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Music in Captivity: The Marine Corps Orchestra Conductor’s Story

Serhiy Smirnov is a military conductor who has led the orchestra of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade for nearly a decade. From April 2022 to September 2024, he was held in captivity alongside his comrades. One of them was tortured to death by Russian forces, and five of his musicians remain in captivity.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

74-year-old Crimean Tatar historian detained and prosecuted over interview about the 1944 Deportation

The uncle of three political prisoners is facing prosecution over the entirely accurate comment that the perpetrators of Soviet crimes were not held to account