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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Run forward. If you turn around, we'll shoot you’

Rostyslav Pashynskyi and his fellow traveler were captured when they tried to evacuate from Bucha alone. They were beaten and threatened to cut off their ears and fingers. The Russians simulated shooting his fellow traveler, forcing him to admit he was a lookout. Our report shows how much terror two civilians had to endure and how this story ended.

• War crimes

Torturer appears as ‘witness’ in Russia’s show trial of abducted Ukrainian Yaroslav Zhuk

The Russian court ignored Zhuk's identification of the individual as one of his torturers, as it does the harrowing account of electric currents attached to genitals, savage beating and other torture to extract a fake 'confession'

• War crimes

Russia at the UN justifies its murder of 53 Ukrainian civilians at a funeral wake in Hroza, claiming ‘Zelensky’ is to blame

It is a war crime to deliberately target civilians and there is every reason, including lies told by Russia’s representative at the UN, to believe that the horrific attack which killed over half of the residents of Hroza (Kharkiv oblast) was intentional

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘A whole family died in a neighbouring house’ — resident of Sievierodonetsk

A resident of the devastated town describes the first weeks of the war.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych may have suffered a stroke due to Russian medical torture

Iryna Danilovich is in urgent need of medical care and the failure to provide it is the latest crime against the nurse, civic journalist and human rights defender in revenge for her courageous position

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The military registration and enlistment office said they didn't need my services’

The son of Viktor Petrovych voluntarily joined the National Guard and was wounded near Bakhmut. Vyktor also wanted to defend his homeland, but he was not accepted due to his age. Then the man decided to help to the best of his ability: he prepared Molotov cocktails and knitted camouflage nets.

• War crimes   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted and tortured Ukrainian writer and journalist Serhiy Tsyhipa sentenced to 13 years on surreal charges

18 months after the Nova Kakhovka journalist was abducted by its solders, Russia has claimed that he turned up in occupied Simferopol to ‘confess to spying’ for his own country in his own country

• War crimes

Russia quadruples spending on military propaganda to foist Russian ‘patriotism’ and ‘identity’ on occupied parts of Ukraine

Russia has long tried to indoctrinate children in occupied Crimea into wanting to ‘defend Russia’ and is now using similar measures on other occupied Ukrainian territory

• Announcements

Research: Russia’s biolab lies may be a cover for its own crimes

In 2022, Russia launched its largest disinformation campaign about chemical and biological weapons, with its origins in Soviet newspaper propaganda. Fake experts and “fact laundering” techniques are used to spread the lies, and Russians have made several “documentaries” about mythical US labs.

• 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

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