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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I instantly knew my husband had been killed’

Bucha resident Iryna Solova, along with her husband and grandchildren, hid in a bathhouse from Russian bombings. Her husband saw something burning on the street and decided to go out to help people. Like many civilians in the city, the unarmed pensioner was killed by Russian soldiers for no reason.

• War crimes

Russia admits it doesn’t plan to rebuild the cities in Ukraine it destroyed in order to annex

Ukrainians living in parts of Donbas seized by the Russians in 2022 are facing another hellish winter with the aggressor state openly saying ‘there’s no point’ in rebuilding many of the cities it destroyed

• War crimes

Death toll at 52 after Russia bombs Kharkiv village funeral wake and a hospital in Kherson oblast

Over half of the residents of Hroza in Kharkiv oblast were killed in a Russian missile strike on a funeral wake, while the Russians also bombed the latest of well over a thousand Ukrainian hospitals

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean Tatar political prisoner: Russia’s 19-year sentence will not silence me, nor will such persecution break others

Ismet Ibragimov was not accused of any actual crime, yet ‘judges’ from two Russian courts found no problem with passing a horrifically long sentence

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I was shot by a tank machine gun’

When the Russians shot him, Viktor Nesterchuk was riding his bicycle to the Vorzel maternity hospital to buy formula for his six-month-old baby. He lay with no other help but a tourniquet for three days because the Russians did not allow the wounded to be taken to the Bucha hospital. Despite having his leg amputated, Viktor considers himself lucky compared to other victims of Russia’s ruthless aggression against civilians.

• Publicistics

Václav Havel and Ukraine

“We are rallied by the values that Václav Havel starkly outlined: love of freedom, independence, commitment to democracy, and rejection of authoritarianism”: reflections on the significance of Havel’s legacy for today’s Ukraine.

• War crimes

Russia abducts two priests from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in occupied Donetsk

The claim that Father Khrystofor Khrimli and Father Andriy Chuy have been ‘expelled’ is particularly worrying since there is every reason to believe they are held prisoner in Russia

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Nariman Dzhelyal illegally taken to Russia in revenge for Crimean Tatar affirmation that Crimea is Ukraine

Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dhelyal had, for many years under occupation, known that they could come for him at any moment. Tragically that moment has arrived.

• War crimes

Russia tries to eliminate Ukrainian language from schools in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

The Russian invaders inadvertently proved just how strongly the population of Zaporizhzhia oblast identify with Ukraine and are now using standard methods to try to crush Ukrainian identity in schools

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘There is nowhere to retreat; we must fight for our life’

Yurii Hryhorovych from Vyshhorod witnessed a rocket hit his house. His wife was seriously injured, underwent several operations, and almost lost sight. If she couldn’t care for herself, he would have to terminate the employment contract with the plant. But despite everything, Yuri does not lose hope.

• War crimes

Russia passes insane sentences for ‘spying for Ukraine’ against Ukrainians it abducted from occupied Kherson and tortured

The lawless charges against Mykola Petrovsky, who is seriously disabled, and 50-year-old Serhiy Kotov are clearly based solely on 'confessions' obtained through torture while the men were held incommunicado

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Move to criminalize protest over political and religious persecution in Russia and occupied Ukraine as ‘justification of extremism’

Russia is already using ill-defined ‘extremism’ legislation as a weapon against Ukrainians in occupied Crimea, with the new bill further broadening the scope for repression