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Russia ‘retries’ Ukrainian doctor abducted, tortured and imprisoned for six years in occupied Donbas

Yury Shapovalov is one of many Ukrainians savagely tortured at the Izolyatsia secret prison in Donetsk for his pro-Ukrainian posts on Twitter

Children from occupied Ukraine enlisted in paramilitary ‘Youth Army’ to learn to ‘fight for Russia’

Russia makes a habit of glorifying criminals, mercenaries and traitors, with its latest machine for brainwashing Ukrainian children into wanting to ‘defend’ the aggressor state named after Kyrylo Stremousov

Russia refuses to return bodies of Ukrainian teenagers it killed in occupied Berdiansk

If Russia’s claims about the killing of 16-year-old Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov were true, there would be no reason to hide their bodies, as they have been doing for six months

Sentenced to die in agony, for writing about Russia’s war crimes against Ukraine

Russia has already caused the death of two Ukrainian political prisoners, and is now endangering and torturing 65-year-old Igor Baryshnikov for telling the truth about Russia’s crimes in Mariupol, Bucha and other Ukrainian cities

New evidence of Russia killing Ukrainian prisoners of war in cold blood

More and more video footage is emerging of Russian extrajudicial executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, as well as other war crimes

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

Crimean Tatar journalist and activists face huge sentences in Russia’s retaliation for humiliating attack by Ukraine

How do you take ‘terrorism’ charges seriously when the FSB sat on the illicitly taped conversation about prayer which allegedly proves the charges for seven years?

Russia uses punitive psychiatry to indefinitely imprison critic of its war against Ukraine

A Russian court has ruled that Viktoria Petrova was not in a fit state when she posted criticism of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and Putin's 'genocide of the Ukrainian people'

• Publicistics

EU Unity and Defending Freedom in Ukraine

Europe’s problem, aside from limp defenses, is reflected in its institutionalized and bureaucratized universalism, which obscures the principles of liberty under a thick blanket of rational-legal proceduralism.

Mariupol teenagers in danger of forced mobilization to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia is compounding the war crime it is committing against Ukrainians through its mobilization of civilians by targeting 17-year-olds

• Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan

Dramatic twist in trial of ex-Berkut officer over savage torture of Maidan activists

There was outrage back in 2019 when Andriy Khandrykin was acquitted, however it still took four years for the appeal court to reach a very different decision

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Your wife will be in a cell next door, and your son will be in a Russian penal colony’. In Kharkiv Region, Russian soldiers tortured a school principal

Vitalii Chernov was taken by the Russian troops to the police station in Kupiansk (Kharkiv Region) on 2 September (2022). He refused to cooperate with the Russians. On 8 September, during the counter-attack of the Ukrainian troops, 150 prisoners broke out of their cells and set fire to the hated prison. We publish the story of the school principal’s capture and subsequent rescue.

From killing, torture and plunder in Ukraine to teaching ‘patriotism’ in occupied Crimea and Russia

Russia is using men sent to fight its war against Ukraine to teach ‘patriotism’ and a wish to ‘defend’ the invading state on occupied Ukrainian territory

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