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USA refuses to support Ukraine’s territorial integrity and a lasting peace on anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion

The UN resolution was hardly controversial. It called for the return of all civilian hostages, including children, a just and lasting peace and respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to six years for refusing to renounce his faith

Russia has, once again, brought repression against an entire family, with Vitaliy Buryk not persecuted because of 'extremist activities', but because he continued to practise his faith

Brutal FSB set-up to sentence 21-year-old Donetsk woman to 20 years for patriotism

Maria Hryn was just 20 when she was very likely tricked into making a patriotic video and (possibly) planning a petrol bomb attack in occupied Donetsk

Russian soldier sentenced to life for killing two Ukrainian POWs in cold blood

Vladimir Ivanov is the third Russian to have been convicted of killing Ukrainian prisoners of war, with all three saying that the order to kill had come from their commander

Kherson father and daughter abducted, tortured and given huge sentences for trying to escape Russian occupation

The Russian invaders have yet again opted for easy victims - Oleksiy Demianenko and his very young daughter, Anzhelika, who only tried to leave occupied Kherson oblast

Russia’s FSB to receive unlimited power to block access to Internet and mobile phones in occupied Ukraine

The FSB will be able to block whoever they like, with no pretence that this is for security reasons

• Civic society

Statement on the Designation of the International Memorial Association as an ‘Undesirable Organization’

Yesterday, 17 February 2026, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, designated the International Memorial Association as an “undesirable organization.”

Russia uses illegal ruling outlawing a different ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’ for huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs

Bohdan Musikhin is one of 14 Ukrainian prisoners of war declaring political prisoners after Russian passed monstrous sentences against them for having served their country

Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed

The decision to readmit Russia to any Olympic event is an outrage and profound affront to all victims of Russia’s aggression, including the slain athletes whom Vladyslav Heraskevych was punished for honouring

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

‘Witness’ changes story to fit prosecution in Russia’s ‘trial’ of 75-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev

This is not the first time that huge discrepancies in 'testimony' have pointed to fabricated charges and duress, with 'judges' at the Southern District Military Court turning a blind eye

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean seized at Moscow airport, faces up to 20-year sentence for donations to Ukraine

Kyrylo Kostyhov was detained, subjected to fake administrative prosecutions until the FSB came up with 'treason' charges over donations totalling 22 euros

Detained Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine for crimes in occupied Crimea could be tried in Poland

Russian academics are being advised not to visit ‘unfriendly’ countries – like Poland which has heeded Ukraine’s request and detained Alexander Butyagin for his involvement in Russia’s illegal excavations and looting in occupied Crimea

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