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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘If they gave me a machine gun, I would have killed them all...’

Olena Movchan is a resident of Shybene village in the Kyiv Region. The settlement was occupied from the first days of the full-scale invasion. The woman experienced many hardships. Olena says that she was forced to communicate with Russians. Mostly, these were Buryats and Kadyrovites [Chechens].

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Unending imprisonment in reprisal for young Crimean Tatar’s refusal to take Russian citizenship

25-year-old Leniye Umerova was seized on the border while trying to get to occupied Crimea to be with her father who was suffering from cancer

• War crimes

Russia passes breathtakingly lawless 18-year sentence against Ukrainian POW defending Mariupol

The only ‘evidence’ for insane changes that try to rewrite historical fact comes from Anton Baidrakov’s videoed ‘confession’ visibly obtained through torture

• War crimes

Ukraine launches war crimes probe after Russians use Ukrainian POWs as human shields

Russia has systematically used Ukrainians as human shields since its invasion of Crimea in 2014, with all such behaviour identified by the International Criminal Court as a war crime

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Russia frees criminals, sentences Crimean Tatar civic journalist to 11 years for moral integrity

The Russian FSB in occupied Crimea were open in telling Ernes Ametov that his horrific sentence was in retaliation for refusing to give false testimony against others

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘An old lady’s leg was torn off and her blood splashed on the granddaughter’

From the first day of the war, Kharkiv and its suburbs were brutally bombed. The Russians destroyed entire districts. Despite this, some of our interviewee’s Russian relatives refuse to face the truth.

• Events

22-year-old Ukrainian jailed for 3 years for writing that Russia is destroying Ukraine

Prokhor Neizhmakov wrote of Russia’s imperialist aspirations and the huge number of deaths from Russia’s invasion of his country

• War crimes

Door-to-door terror in occupied Ukraine as Russia about to classify Ukrainians as ‘foreigners’, likely rob and deport them

Russia is using armed Russian soldiers, threats of deportation and pressure on employers before claiming from 1 January 2024 that it is Ukrainians, nor the aggressor state, that are ‘foreign nationals’ on Ukrainian territory

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We were driving, and they were shooting at us’

Tamara Vyshniak met a full-scale war in her home village of Borodianka in the Kyiv Region. The woman was shell-shocked during one of the air raids, which destroyed a neighboring house. The wrecked slabs covered people, but it was impossible to save them. Her evacuation was also not easy. Tamara says that Russian helicopters fired at civilians.

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

Armed searches and surreal charges against Crimean Tatar Imam for leading prayers in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two families were subjected to armed intrusions with Russia's so-called 'centre for countering extremism' hunting down only 'prohibited literature' before taking local Imam Ismail Yurdamov away

• Events

War against Independent Culture: a Digest of Russian Protests

On 21 November, the Voronezh Chamber Theatre fired its director Mikhail Bychkov for his anti-war stance. Mikhail Bychkov is one of the founders of the Voronezh Chamber Theatre.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Bodies were lying in the street. Neighbours covered them with blankets’

“The bus stop was crushed like a tin can. Concrete slabs flew into the neighbouring street, and shrapnel damaged houses and windows. Imagine the force of the rocket strike,” said a resident of Lysychansk (town in Luhansk Region).

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