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Russia sentences Ukrainian to 25 years for ‘railway sabotage commissioned by Ukraine, Poland and Latvia’

The charges against 46-year-old Serhiy Karmazin are based solely on a videoed ‘confession’ while Russia’s FSB actively prevented him from seeing an independent lawyer

• Voices of war • Interview

'There was a cemetery here' — a resident of the village of Zahaltsi

Serhii Smyrnov lives in the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. The family finished fixing the house just before the start of the war. They kept goats and poultry. The Russians forced the family to leave their native village, and when the family returned, neither the house nor the birds were there.

Russia plans extra propaganda classes in occupied Ukraine to “correct flawed understanding of history”

Even with draconian legislation enabling Russia to imprison people for telling the truth about its crimes, the aggressor state is clearly finding it harder than anticipated to inculcate its rewritten version of 'history'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two years of unrelenting Russian torture of Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych

It is two years since the Russian FSB in occupied Crimea abducted Iryna Danilovych and tried to torture her into ‘confessing’ to fictitious ‘treason’ and contacts with western organizations. Their medical torture continues

The Unified Register of Persons Disappeared Under Special Circumstances has become operational in Ukraine

Relatives of persons who went missing under special circumstances (as a result of hostilities) can apply to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a record, based on which they can apply to the Pension Fund and receive a survivor's pension. KHPG tells how to do it.

To see the light in the darkness: Psychologist’s office as part of human rights activity

This article was written in February 2023 and describes the formation of the system of psychological care for victims of war crimes established by the KHPG. We provide comprehensive assistance to those who come to our reception offices. After a consultation with a lawyer, a person can be supported financially and referred to an official or a doctor. An essential part of this assistance is a psychological service.

Russians abduct and torture former Ukrainian policeman for fake ‘terrorism trial’

Oleksiy Kyrychenko is one of five civilians illegally abducted and almost certainly tortured for the ‘confessions’ on which this latest ‘trial’ is likely to be based

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Ukrainian journalist prosecuted in Russian-occupied Crimea over articles published by media banned as ‘undesirable organization’

Anastasia Zhvyk had already been forcibly declared a 'foreign agent' and faced prosecution, with her opposition to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine claimed to 'discredit Russia's armed forces'

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia hit new depths in its persecution of Crimean Tatar leader and Ukrainian patriot Nariman Dzhelyal

Nariman Dzhelyal is turning 44 on 27 April, his third birthday in captivity with the 17-year sentence in revenge for his involvement in the Crimea Platform and unwavering support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity

Russian court passes huge sentences against Melitopol mother of two and other Ukrainians on evidently fictitious terrorism charges

Yanina Akulova, Dmytro Sergieiev and Anton Zhukovsky were all abducted from occupied Melitopol, with their videoed 'confessions' obtained long before Russia even admitted to holding them prisoner

The death penalty in Russia. How would it threaten Ukrainians?

Russia aims to execute “terrorists,” but this term is very vague.

88-year-old Ukrainian fled occupied Donbas on foot rather than accept Russian citizenship

Russia is continuing to aggressively foist its citizenship on Ukrainians on occupied territory, with such forced passportization prompting one elderly Ukrainian to an act of great courage

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