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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Playing Russian roulette’ — a village head in the Kherson region captured by the occupiers

In the first weeks of the full-scale invasion, occupiers’ checkpoints were set up around the village of Osokorivka, and the Russian military themselves began to rob and intimidate the local population, — village head Serhii Kunets, who himself spent three weeks in a torture chamber, speaks about occupation.

• War crimes

Russia fakes trials and life sentences against Ukrainian POWs to rewrite the facts about its war crimes and destruction of Mariupol

These trials are particularly dangerous as Russia is openly using torture and unrecognized courts to deny Ukrainian defenders their rights as prisoners of war

• Events

Foiled by Finland, Russia forces asylum seekers to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia’s methods of finding fighters for its war of aggression against Ukraine are brutally cynical and in flagrant violation even of its own legislation, let alone international law

• Events

Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized after 9 years of Russian brutal torment

66-year-old Viktor Shur has served nine of the twelve year sentence that Russia imposed on grotesque ‘spying charges’ over a photo of cows grazing at a disused aerodrome

• Events

‘War is Death’: a Digest of Russian Protests

At least 17 murderers were pardoned in the Russian Federation for participating in the war. Among them, for example, Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, convicted of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Meanwhile, the artist Sasha Skochylenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for anti-war price tags.

• War crimes

Russia is holding around four thousand Ukrainian civilians prisoner, torturing most of them

Both Ukrainian human rights groups and UN monitors have found that Russia is torturing around 90% of all Ukrainians held prisoner

• War crimes

Illegal Russian occupation ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian veteran to 13 years on grotesque ‘spying’ charges

54-year-old Oleksandr Zarivny was held for almost ten months before his family even learned of his whereabouts.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

”I’m no criminal’. Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia's war against Ukraine refuses to wear prison uniform

“Russian law gives shorter sentences even for murder, and I spoke out against murder.” - Bohdan Ziza

• Voices of war   • Interview

Buried alive — memories of a writer from Borodianka

Valentyna Lysenko is a writer who has lived almost her entire life in Borodianka, in the Kyiv Region. Together with her family, she endured several air raids and miraculously survived. The woman recalls how people in the basement of a destroyed house nearby begged for help for five days, but the Russians forbade saving them.

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner vital heart medication

Russia is flouting a UN Committee against Torture order regarding its imprisonment of Amet Suleimanov and effective torture of the Crimean Tatar civic journalist imprisoned on politically motivated charges

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Chilling déjà vu as Russia uses Crimean SMERSH to hunt down supporters of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

Ukrainians are terrorised or tortured into reading out ‘apologies’ for demonstrating a pro-Ukrainian position or opposing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

• War crimes

Russia claims defending Ukraine is ‘international terrorism’ and sentences abducted Kherson man to 12 years

"A crime was indeed committed in Kherson, but not by me, a citizen of Ukraine who was defending his country, but by the Russian soldiers who abducted and tortured me" - Pavlo Zaporozhets

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