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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘An old lady’s leg was torn off and her blood splashed on the granddaughter’

From the first day of the war, Kharkiv and its suburbs were brutally bombed. The Russians destroyed entire districts. Despite this, some of our interviewee’s Russian relatives refuse to face the truth.

• Events

22-year-old Ukrainian jailed for 3 years for writing that Russia is destroying Ukraine

Prokhor Neizhmakov wrote of Russia’s imperialist aspirations and the huge number of deaths from Russia’s invasion of his country

• War crimes

Door-to-door terror in occupied Ukraine as Russia about to classify Ukrainians as ‘foreigners’, likely rob and deport them

Russia is using armed Russian soldiers, threats of deportation and pressure on employers before claiming from 1 January 2024 that it is Ukrainians, nor the aggressor state, that are ‘foreign nationals’ on Ukrainian territory

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We were driving, and they were shooting at us’

Tamara Vyshniak met a full-scale war in her home village of Borodianka in the Kyiv Region. The woman was shell-shocked during one of the air raids, which destroyed a neighboring house. The wrecked slabs covered people, but it was impossible to save them. Her evacuation was also not easy. Tamara says that Russian helicopters fired at civilians.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Armed searches and surreal charges against Crimean Tatar Imam for leading prayers in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two families were subjected to armed intrusions with Russia's so-called 'centre for countering extremism' hunting down only 'prohibited literature' before taking local Imam Ismail Yurdamov away

• Events

War against Independent Culture: a Digest of Russian Protests

On 21 November, the Voronezh Chamber Theatre fired its director Mikhail Bychkov for his anti-war stance. Mikhail Bychkov is one of the founders of the Voronezh Chamber Theatre.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Bodies were lying in the street. Neighbours covered them with blankets’

“The bus stop was crushed like a tin can. Concrete slabs flew into the neighbouring street, and shrapnel damaged houses and windows. Imagine the force of the rocket strike,” said a resident of Lysychansk (town in Luhansk Region).

• The right to life

Ukrainian prisoner dies after savage beating by prison staff and refusal to provide medical care

Serhiy Trotsko died because Ukraine’s penitentiary service, even its medics preferred to watch him die than to tell the truth about the torture he had been subjected to

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People were buried near the hospital’

Tetiana Solohub is a nurse at the Borodianka hospital in the Kyiv Region. She remembers how people buried the dead near the hospital, how the apartment caught fire, and how she ran home past Russian tanks that were shooting at the entrances. Tatiana has nothing left. She continues to work and save money to improve her life.

• War crimes

Russia is hiding renowned Ukrainian POW & rights activist Maksym Butkevych in occupied Luhansk oblast

Our struggle is being waged for human rights, for those democratic values that are lacking in the Russian Federation and which the enemy is trying to destroy in us - Maksym Butkevych

• War crimes

Russia destroys almost all Ukrainian literature in occupied Donbas, calling it ‘extremist’

Russia’s attempts to outlaw Ukrainian history, literature on occupied territory is further evidence of its genocidal aim to destroy all that represents Ukraine and Ukrainian identity

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘People came to get some food and were deliberately shot at’

“The destruction was catastrophic. Houses, shops — everything was destroyed. The Lysychansk Regional Children's Hospital was shelled. Children were evacuated, but neither the hospital nor the ambulance worked” — Lysychansk (town in Luhansk Region) was already under Russian occupation in 2014 and is now experiencing the horrors of the “Russian world” once again.

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