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• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia tries to forcibly mobilize clergy in final move to drive Orthodox Church of Ukraine out of occupied Crimea

Russia has been systematically trying to destroy the Ukrainian Church, as it has all that is Ukrainian in occupied Crimea, and it is frustrating that Kyiv did so little, so late, to obstruct this

• War crimes

Suspected Russian army killers of Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko identified

Volodymyr Vakulenko was killed because he openly opposed Russia’s occupation of his native Kharkiv oblast and helped the Ukrainian defenders. He is one of many Ukrainian writers and artists remembered in PEN Ukraine’s #EmptyChairWeek

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘During the evacuation, the Russians pointed machine guns at us’

Olena Atrashkova is a resident of the Kopyliv village in the Kyiv Region. The woman survived the occupation and witnessed the Russians breaking locks and robbing the post office. The shock wave knocked out the door to her house, and she, with the children, had to hide from the bombings with their neighbors. Olena says the worst thing was when nine Russians burst into the summer kitchen while she was there.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Mom died on the basement’s steps,’ — Mikhailo Ivanov, Mariupol

Mikhailo worked as a sound engineer at the Mariupol Drama Theater. He was seriously injured in his yard. In conditions of constant shelling and lack of electricity and medicine, Mariupol doctors managed to save Mikhailo’s leg. But there was no one to help his mother.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We had a Ukrainian flag hidden in our flat’ — Life in Izium under Russian occupation

Olha Myroshnychenko was born in Izium (Kharkiv Region). The young woman survived a six-month occupation of her home town. She says she always believed the enemy would run away. So she was not afraid to tell the Russians everything she thought about them.

• War crimes

International Criminal Court arrest warrants needed over Russia's mass killing, torture and ‘trials’ of Ukrainian POWs

Russia has blocked investigation of the explosion at Olenivka that killed over 50 Ukrainian POWs. Its mass ‘trials’ of Ukrainian POWs are, however, also in flagrant violation of international law and have perpetrators who should be held to answer

• Events

‘I’m freer than you”: Artist Sasha Skochilenko gets 7 years for price tags telling truth about Russia's war against Ukraine

The artist has been imprisoned since April 2022 after replacing price tags in a supermarket with stark facts about Russia’s war against Ukraine and war crimes in Mariupol

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Nothing left. Everything was burnt out’

Serhii Radchenko from the village of Makariv is 70 years old. Despite his age, he and his neighbors were forced to independently repair the roof and restore order in the house that had been damaged by Russian shelling. He says the apartment still floods, and sometimes he has to pick out 15 buckets of water.

• War crimes

Russia begins ‘inventory’ to steal Ukrainians’ homes in occupied Mariupol

Russia is not content with having destroyed most of Mariupol’s infrastructure, and having killed vast numbers of civilians, but is now seeking to deprive residents of those homes it did not earlier destroy

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My brother was captured, and my house was bombed out’

During active hostilities, an enemy shell almost destroyed the ancestral house of the village Makariv resident, Volodymyr Tokar. His cousin was captured in Mariupol. The man returned home in the fall of 2022 as part of a prisoner exchange, when 215 Ukrainians were exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk and 55 occupiers.

• War crimes

Ukrainian POW 'sentenced' to 19 years, with Russia claiming he planned to ‘violently seize power’ by defending Mariupol

Ukrainian defender of Mariupol, Anton Cherednyk was clearly tortured into providing an insane ‘confession’ that fits Moscow’s propaganda narrative, but not the facts

• Voices of war   • Interview

Now we are homeless

Halyna Koretska lives with her husband in the village of Kopyliv, Kyiv Region. Barely holding back her tears, Halyna wanders around the house, which two enemy Grads [multiple propelled rockets] destroyed. The woman remembers where the pictures she loved to embroider and the flowerpots were. “But the house is not important,” — says Halyna — “The Russians killed my nephew.”

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