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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘They beat my brother on the head with the machine gun butt ...’

Nataliia Atrashkova is a resident of the village of Kopyliv in the Kyiv Region. From the first days of a full-scale war, the town was occupied by the Russians. Natalia escaped from hell, but her brother did not. The invaders killed him.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean Tatar mother faces possible prison sentence for not denouncing another Ukrainian to the Russian FSB

25-year-old Emine Zekeryaeva could face a prison sentence for ‘failing to report’ a social media conversation she had no reason to see as ‘criminal’

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Armed raid and jail in Russian occupied Crimea for posting songs in support of Ukraine

The aim of these stunts is to terrorize Ukrainians on occupied territory and to try to silence any protest against Russia’s war of aggression

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The Mamons tortured my son,’ — a resident of Hroza

Today, the village of Hroza in the Kharkiv Region is known in Ukraine and beyond its borders. On 5 October, a Russian missile killed 59 of its residents. The men, who allegedly pointed lethal weapons at civilians, tortured the son of Larysa Shevchenko (name changed for security reasons).

• Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan

Ukraine to try ex-Berkut officers accused of gunning down Euromaidan activists

The men are also accused of destroying and trying to hide the weapons to prevent being identified

• War crimes

Russia tries to mobilize 17-year-old Ukrainian illegally deported from Mariupol and prevented from returning to Ukraine

Bohdan Yermokhin is about to turn 18 and there are serious grounds for fearing that Russia will forcibly mobilize the young lad who has repeatedly been prevented from returning to Ukraine

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Why banning the Russian-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church “would create problems, not remove them”

There is huge support in Ukraine for such a ban of a church which was always, and according to some remains closely aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate which is supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

• Human Rights Violations associated with EuroMaidan

Court in Ukraine jails ex-Berkut officers for savage attack on Euromaidan activists

It was probably because of the outrage over the Yanukovych regime’s savage attack on young students that turned Euromaidan into mass protests and, ultimately, into what is now known as the Revolution of Dignity

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I stole a fuel truck from the Russians’ — a pensioner from Dymer provided fuel for a local hospital

During the occupation, Valentyn Hryshchenko delivered humanitarian aid to his fellow villagers, and even stole a damaged fuel truck from the invaders and delivered its fuel to a local hospital and a nursing home. The Russians captured Valentyn and tortured him in a basement: they hit him with rifle butt and imitated his execution. The fuel truck was later handed over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

• Constitution   • Research

Constitution of Ukraine. A draft

This edition is an English translation of the full-scale annotated model draft of the new Constitution of Ukraine—2023. The author of the draft is Vsevolod Rechytskyi—Chairman of the Council of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, associate professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv, Ukraine).

• Freedom of expression

Ukraine’s courts impose prison sentences for reposting or even ‘liking’ social media posts that support Russian aggression

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has been actively prosecuting those who circulate information deemed to justify, claim legitimacy for or deny Russian aggression.

• War crimes

Ukrainian POWs sentenced to life for Russia’s war crimes in Mariupol

If Russia had evidence to back its profoundly cynical claims, it would trumpet them, instead of using illegal formations on occupied territory to produce kangaroo court ‘sentences’

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