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‘The neighbor was still alive and called his granddaughter to get him out from under the rubble,’ — a resident of Borodianka

During the bombing of Borodianka, Mykhailo Kokidko and his son received shell shock. The family barely had time to escape the destroyed burning house. After the evacuation, the man ended up under occupation in the neighboring village of Zahaltsi.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Your families will suffer too: No limits to Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians

Russia is using fake ‘terrorism’ and ‘sabotage’ charges to not only imprison political prisoners for decades, but to punish their entire families

• War crimes

Russians kill unarmed and wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war near Avdiivka

It is unclear whether the Russians hope that the two separate videos from near Avdiivka and Vesele will demoralize Ukraine’s defenders or whether they simply like boasting of their barbaric war crimes

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Insane sentence and 18 months of agonizing silence after Russia abducts two friends for opposing its war against Ukraine

Yevhen Pryshliak and his friend, Artem Baranov, a 32-year-old lawyer, were seized by the Russians in occupied Nova Kakhovka on 12 August 2022, with Russia refusing to even say where they are held

• War crimes   • Research

Nothing is sacred

The Russian occupiers destroyed hundreds of religious buildings and kidnapped, tortured, killed, and wounded dozens of priests... This was discussed at a press conference on the Russian occupier’s war crimes against Ukrainian religious communities and clergy.

• War crimes

Ukrainian priest abducted and tortured to death in Russian-occupied Kherson oblast

Father Stepan Podolchak from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine had refused to betray his oath and his congregation by transferring affiliation to the Moscow patriarchate

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Renowned Crimean Tatar lawyer detained and prosecuted for informing of illegal conscription into Russian army

This is the latest attack on a human rights lawyer whose tireless defence of political prisoners in occupied Crimea has made him a target for the occupation regime and renowned abroad. 

• War crimes

Major report on Russia’s devastation of Mariupol demands that Putin and military leaders are held to answer

The report by Human Rights Watch and Truth Hounds is particularly important given Russia’s attempts to conceal the evidence of its crimes, and to try to blame Ukrainian defenders for such crimes

• War crimes

Ukrainian journalist abducted, tortured and sentenced to 13 years for writing about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

For all its secrecy about the ‘spying’ charges it laid against Serhiy Tsyhipa, Russia is scarcely trying to conceal that he was targeted for his patriotism and opposition to Russia’s invasion

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I am running away from the war, but it's catching up with me,’ — a resident of Kramatorsk

Svitlana Leonova has been fleeing the war since 2015. At that time, she moved from the temporarily occupied Shakhtarsk to Kramatorsk, but on 24 February 2022, the war came to her home. Now, she lives in a modular town in Borodianka and dreams of returning home most of all.

• War crimes

80-year-old wheelchair-bound Ukrainian rescued after being left within a pension in occupied Donbas for refusing to take Russian citizenship

Russia is using the poverty and chaos it has brought to occupied territory to force Ukrainians to take Russian passports or face dying without healthcare or being left with no means of survival

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia outlaws major Crimean Tatar human rights group which exposes its repression and calls for liberation of Crimea

It is likely that Russia waited until after the International Court of Justice judgement to ban an organization playing a vital role in exposing its crimes in occupied Crimea