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• 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.”

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia passes additional sentence to ensure Ukrainian opponent of Crimea occupation doesn’t leave prison alive

The method used to concoct new criminal charges is especially cynical and dangerous, with other political prisoners also at risk

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Outrage after Ukrainian politician causes student’s persecution in Russian-occupied Crimea

Iryna Farion and her Svoboda Party have long been notorious for controversial pronouncements or actions that do more to harm, than help Ukraine. This time, Farion’s actions have directly placed a young patriotic Ukrainian from Crimea in real danger

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘A woman died beside my husband. Her leg was blown off’

“We made a fire outside to cook food or drink tea. We were hungry all the time,” says a resident of Vuhledar (a town in Donetsk Region).

• War crimes

Grant Hero of Ukraine status for freed medic who saved 100 victims of Russian torture and rape, including a child

Yury Armash had been a military medic for several years before 2022, but what he saw and experienced after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine shocked him in its savagery

• War crimes

Prominent rights activist and journalist Maksym Butkevych vanishes after Russia ‘sentences’ him to 13 years for defending Ukraine

Russia is flouting international law and even its own norms, by holding 46-year-old Maksym Butkevych incommunicado and refusing to even pass on letters

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We were driving and everything exploded around us’

Olena Petrivna Kulynovych lives in the village of Horenka, Kyiv Region. Her house was hit by an enemy shell. She left Horenka for a while but eventually returned. Now she lives without electricity, water and gas supply...

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘God forbid people would see this...’

Anton Siryk is a resident of the Makariv village in the Kyiv Region. In the first days of the war, enemy artillery began to destroy the settlement. Part of the high-rise building where the family lived was destroyed. “The weather is gray and cloudy, and dogs are running, attacking cats. There is slate lying around; glass and cars are broken,” — this is how the man describes his first impressions of what he saw.

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