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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘A bomb was dropped from a plane! We were left without a roof over our heads...’

Olha Smykovska lives in the Kyiv Region in the village of Kopyliv. In the first days of the war, the Russians dropped an aerial bomb near the woman’s house. Olha’s son went to war to defend Ukraine and was seriously wounded. And then she lost her daughter.

• War crimes

European Broadcasting Union study exposes “brutal Russification” in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Russia’s aggressive measures to foist its citizenship in occupied Ukraine, to indoctrinate children and eliminate Ukrainian language and identity are only equalled by deliberate attempts to create "an information black hole" in occupied parts of Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The dog saved us...’

Tetiana Lukianenko is a resident of the village of Zahaltsi, Kyiv Region. A slab fell on a woman while she was hiding with her dog and son in a cellar during the bombing. The family moved to the summer pavilion when suddenly the Russians showed up.

• War crimes

Ukrainian academic abducted from occupied Kherson, tortured and sentenced to 12 years in Russia on nonsensical ‘spying’ charges

Vladyslav Kryvyy is one of a huge number of Ukrainian civilian hostages almost certainly tortured into providing ‘confessions’ clearly and boringly drafted by Russia’s FSB

• War crimes

Occupied Sievierodonetsk begins second winter in bombed homes without heating except on Russian propaganda TV

While Russia is clearly planning a second winter of attacks on Ukrainian critical infrastructure, its treatment of Ukrainians currently under its occupation is no less brutal

• 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

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