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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

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The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned violations of the rights of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation

The Committee’s recommendations responded to the issues raised in the joint report of the ADC Memorial and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.

• Events

71-year-old Ukrainian seized on fake 'spying' charges dies in Russian captivity

Almost nothing is known about Viktor Demchenko, however Russia was undoubtedly imprisoning him illegally and probably caused his death, as it did the deaths of Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyrinh

• War crimes

Whole family with three children among those burned to death in Russian drone attack on Kharkiv

Russian attacks in the last week alone have killed at least four children, yet it was Putin and his deranged attempts to justify Russia's genocidal war against Ukraine that received media attention

• Army

To the President of Ukraine V.O. Zelenskyi

The initiative group “December 1” opposed the dismissal of Zaluzhnyi.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB tortures three Ukrainians for ‘saboteur plot’ arrests in occupied Crimea

Implausible elements in Volodymyr Bodnar’s supposed ‘confession’ and other details make it near certain that this is the latest FSB ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ case based on torture and fabricated ‘evidence’

• War crimes

Russian propaganda turns the elimination of its officials in occupied Lysychansk into ‘a monstrous attack on a bakery’

Russia tried to conceal the real targets for two days while trumpeting lies, unfortunately circulated in the western media, about a 'terrorist attack on civilians'

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I live in a modular town and weave nets,’ — a resident of Borodianka

On 1 and 2 March 2022, Russian aviation destroyed eight multi-storey residential buildings in Borodianka with powerful FAB-250 aerial bombs. Nadiia Khomich’s house was also destroyed. Now, the woman and her family live in a modular town. She weaves nets for the military, makes trench candles, and does not lose hope.