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Putin grants Russian citizenship to suspected Bosnian Serb war criminal, pardons serial killer to fight against Ukraine

Putin’s contempt for international law is nothing new, but his decisions on granting citizenship and pardons to men either accused with strong grounds of atrocities or convicted are still staggering

• Civic society

Referral network. Design and functioning

Four Ukrainian NGOs—Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG), Blue Bird (Kyiv), Sich (Dnipro), and Forpost (Dnipro)—together with the Danish Institute Against Torture DIGNITY are implementing a three-year-long project to provide psychological, legal, charitable, medical, and other kinds of assistance to civilian victims of war.

Children illegally taken from Russian-occupied Ukraine to ‘train’ with army in Belarus

The Lukashenka regime is actively collaborating with Russia in illegally deporting Ukrainian children and subjecting them to so-called ‘re-education’ and, often, military training

Russia sentences soldier for admitting to war crimes in Ukraine and now prosecutes journalist who reported them

Although at least 20 Russians are serving long sentences for telling the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine, sentences in this case would be for admitting to war crimes or reporting such an admission

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

SOS! Foreign diplomats in Russia can help Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners!

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has made conditions for Russia’s ever-increasing number of Ukrainian political prisoners even more gruelling, but has opened one possibility for other countries to help

Russia uses fake ‘court’ in occupied Kherson oblast for lawless ‘trial’ of Crimean Tatar

Eldar Kestan is the latest of well over 30 Ukrainian citizens whom Russia has accused of legal activities on Ukrainian territory, and has often used torture against

• Voices of war • Interview

‘The rocket killed my father. This will never be erased from my memory or heart’

Ostapovska Nataliia and Iryna are residents of the Krasna Hirka village. Without holding back tears, mother and daughter tell their story. Before their eyes, the rocket destroyed the house, animals, and the most dear person — father and husband. “In memory of the victims, we must not give up and move towards victory,” the women say, despite the grief they have not yet overcome.

Putin signs decree simplifying Russia’s criminal abduction of children from occupied Ukraine

There is every reason for the International Criminal Court to react and not only because Putin is once again directly abetting Russia’s genocidal forced transfer of Ukrainian children to the aggressor state

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Almost 600 Ukrainians prosecuted for ‘discrediting’ Russian invading forces by supporting Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Despite constant harassment and persecution, Russia has not succeeded in crushing opposition and pro-Ukrainian sentiments in occupied Crimea

Medical terrorism: Russia blocks access to healthcare to foist its citizenship and overcome resistance in occupied Ukraine

Russia is using access to healthcare as a weapon to foist its citizenship in occupied Ukraine, while also terrorizing medics and appropriating hospitals and medication for treating the invading forces

Ukraine sentences ‘chief butcher’ of Russian-controlled Izolyatsia secret torture prison to 15 years

Denys Kulykovsky (‘Palych’] answered to Russia’s FSB, but he himself both gave orders to torture Ukrainian hostages at Izolyatsia and took part in such torture

Convicted killers that Putin pardoned and glorifies for fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine teach children about ‘courage’

Russia’s attempts to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine are not helped by the convicted killers and rapists, and likely war criminals that Putin is labelling Russian ‘heroes’

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