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Russian invaders turn Kherson oblast culture centre into torture chamber for ‘unreliable’ Ukrainians

At least five Ukrainian civilians are known to be held and almost certainly tortured at Odradivka, with the Russians having tortured at least two of their victims, including a Ukrainian Orthodox priest to death over recent months

Russia incriminates itself through ‘trial’ of Ukrainian abducted 7 years ago in occupied Donbas

The secrecy this time is not only because the charges are absurd, but to hide the inconvenient detail that Oleksandr Korol has been held hostage since 2017

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I saw a plane drop a bomb on my house’

Oksana Halchenko is a resident of Borodianka. She says that the Russians fired at houses from tanks if they saw someone in the window. The woman evacuated after her home was destroyed. Her sister spent a month under occupation, refusing the “attractive” offers of the occupiers to evacuate to Russia.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian traffic police used for enforced disappearances and FSB terror in occupied Crimea

Likely involvement in the enforced disappearance of Crimean Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov is the most chilling, but not the only way in which Russia’s traffic police are complicit in Russia’s crimes

Leaving Ukraine unable to defend its skies makes Russian invasion of other countries a question of time

Russia does indeed pose both an existential threat to Ukraine, and a threat to international security, yet the carnage and relentless attacks on critical infrastructure are made possible by the blocking of urgently needed military aid

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Dmytro Vovk: Is it possible to ban the Ukranian Orthodox Church?

In the first reading, the Verkhovna Rada adopted draft law No. 8371 on the prohibition of religious organizations that have a center of influence in the Russian Federation. The essence of the draft law, whether this ban is proportional, and how it will affect the relationship between the Ukrainian state and the church are discussed in this article.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar imprisoned for refusal to ‘publicly repent’ protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine

The one-year sentence against Dilyaver Salimov highlights the malignant role played by notorious informer Aleksandr Talipov and the reprisals Ukrainians face if they refuse to 'apologise' for pro-Ukrainian views on video

• Voices of war • Interview

‘240 houses were razed to the ground, and 700 were damaged’ — resident of the village of Zahaltsi

Oleksandr Voinalovych lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. He is a former employee of the State Emergency Service. When a full-scale war began, and there were already many occupiers around the village, Oleksandr evacuated women and children by school bus.

Russia uses ISIS terror attack, Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and propaganda lies to accuse Ukraine of its terrorism

The claims made by tortured terror suspects are absurd, but are being accompanied by a huge propaganda drive aimed at linking Ukraine with terrorism, as well, possibly, as with drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Russia admits to holding Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk two years after abducting him

After two years of evident lies, the Russians appear to be claiming that Khyliuk, an UNIAN journalist, was a 'military serviceman'. They have yet to admit to be holding award-winning journalist Victoria Roshchyna

Ukraine initiates war crimes probe after Russians kill unarmed Ukrainian POWs in Kherson oblast

The number of such killings of Ukrainian POWs has increased dramatically since November 2023 and it seems likely that this is, at very least, condoned by those at the top in Russia's military

Russia sentences abducted Ukrainian Baptist volunteer to 20 years on insane ‘terrorism’ and ‘spying’ charges

Both Margarita Kharenko and Serhiy Avramenko were seized by the Russians from their homes in Melitopol in January 2023, and very likely subjected to torture

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