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Ukrainians in occupied territory refused life-saving insulin unless they take Russian citizenship

While claiming near 100% support for ‘joining Russia’, the Russian occupiers are using weapons of coercion, including deprivation of medication, to force unwilling Ukrainians to take unwanted Russian passports

Yevhen Zakharov shortlisted for the Václav Havel Prize 2023

The prize is awarded annually by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for outstanding achievements in human rights protection.

• Voices of war • Interview

How volunteer doctors work with victims of Russian aggression

Since the beginning of the war, volunteer doctors of the FRIDA organization have been working free of charge in the frontline territories. For a year and a half, they managed to assist thousands of civilians. In this interview, doctors talk about their work in Bakhmut and other hot spots, the people they saved, and rethinking their inner values.

In Memory: Ihor Kozlovskyy, renowned Ukrainian religious scholar and former Russian hostage

The death on 6 September of Ihor Kozlovskyy is a terrible loss for Ukraine and for all of us

The Tribunal for Putin has published the first legal assessment of genocide in Ukraine

On 28 August, the human rights initiative T4P launched its submission to the International Criminal Court, detailing the acts of genocide committed by Russia in and around the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

‘Investigators’ in military gear extract Ukrainian POW ‘confessions’ to Russia’s war crimes in occupied Ukraine

Released hostages have given detailed accounts of the savage torture used to extract videoed ‘confessions’. There is nothing to suggest that any of this has now changed.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘If we don’t invest in art, we can fail’, Matvii Vaisberg says

Paintings by the artist Matvii Vaisberg became illustrations for the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group’s new book about Mariupol. He says that the war was the most productive period for him, complains about the uglification of urban space, and believes we should do more to promote contemporary Ukrainian art worldwide.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Two years of open attack on Crimean Tatars, with even political prisoners' families and lawyers jailed

Although Russia’s offensive against the Crimean Tatar people had begun soon after its invasion of Crimea, the revenge 'trial' of Crimean Tatar leader Nariman Dzhelyal and the mass detentions uunleashed in September 2021 were on a dangerously new scale.

FSB in occupied Melitopol threaten to send children to Russia if parents don’t agree to their indoctrination

Moscow knows very well that Ukrainians in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts hate them and is escalating measures to try to brainwash young people and terrorize their parents

• Voices of war • Interview

‘After the de-occupation, he collected the bodies of dead Russian soldiers’

Yurii Serohin is a resident of Dmytrivka in the Kyev Region. The beginning of the war found him at work in Kyiv. It took him two days to return to his native village on foot, and when he arrived, it was occupied. An artillery shell destroyed his house and all his property.

Ukrainians in occupied territory forced at gunpoint to vote for fake candidates in Russia's pseudo-election

Russia hopes to claim ‘legitimacy’ for its armed invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory by staging door-to-door ‘elections’ ‘with Russian soldiers providing the armed ‘incentive’

New insane charges against Ukrainian tortured into ‘confessing’ to killings probably arranged by Russia

Oleksandr Pohorielov has been held hostage in the Russian proxy ‘Donetsk republic’ since November 2017 yet Russia is now putting him on ‘trial’, although it may well be behind the two prominent militant killings

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