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• War crimes

Mariupol residents whose apartments Russia bombed left homeless as new buildings sold to Russians

Mariupol residents are desperately trying to stop Russia from demolishing what remains of their bombed apartment blocks, as what the Russians ‘rebuild’, they then ‘sell’ for profit, with such apartments “not envisaged” for their real owners.

• Events

Leniye Umerova, young Crimean Tatar savagely punished in Russia for trying to visit her ill father from mainland Ukraine

It will soon be a year since 25 Leniye Umerova was seized by Russian border guards, and first held prisoner on entirely different administrative pretexts, before the FSB came up with absurd ‘spying’ charges

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I dream that my work will become unnecessary’

Viktoriia Nesterenko is a co-founder of the Wings of Victory Foundation, which helps civilians and military personnel. In particular, to Ukrainian Muslims who left to defend their homeland. Can religious rituals become a hindrance in war? How do people of different faiths get along at the front lines? Our interview is about the work and future of the fund.

• War crimes

Russia’s killing of over 50 Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka was a “show execution” – former Azov defender

Azov defender Yevhen Chudnetsov was twice a prisoner of war in occupied Donbas or Russia. During the second, he witnessed the horrific explosion at Olenivka camp and is in no doubt that the Russians executed Ukrainian POWs

• The right to life   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia upholds death sentences against two Crimean Tatar political prisoners after killing one of them

For monstrous reasons, it was probably predictable that the 13-year sentence against the late Dzhemil Gafarov would be upheld, but the ‘judges’ still had the opportunity to save the life of 63-year-old Servet Gaziev, and failed to take it

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘It was clear that the city was simply being destroyed’ — Pavlo Ponomarenko, Mariupol

Pavlo Ponomarenko is an engineer by profession and an artist by vocation. The Russian occupiers destroyed his district, went over with a tractor, and leveled it to the ground to hide the traces of their crimes. About life in besieged Mariupol in an interview with Pavlo Ponomarenko.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Young Crimean faces possible prison sentence for kicking the Russian flag because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Hlib Malkov is just 21, yet, when understands very well that Crimea is part of Ukraine and that Russia’s so-called referendum was an illegal fake

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

EU imposes sanctions over torture and persecution of Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, Nariman Dzhelyal and others in Russian-occupied Crimea

The sanctions target two of the FSB officers involved in the savage torture of Vladislav Yesypenko and others directly complicit in knowingly imprisoning innocent men

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I realized that I could easily be turned in’

Ihor Ivanovych served in Murmansk in a special forces detachment and later as a border guard. He returned to Mariupol because he wanted to live in Ukraine: he was born in the Lviv Region and always considered himself a Ukrainian. After spending 35 days in the basement, the 70-year-old man ran away, fearing that he would be handed over to the occupiers for his pro-Ukrainian views.

• War crimes

Russian torture of Ukrainian civilians and POWs is clearly state-endorsed policy – UN Rapporteur

Russia is also blocking access to areas under its occupation with this making it possible to obtain important evidence

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB detains, then terrorizes and threatens to abduct young Crimean Tatar mother

The FSB’s excuse for its terrorization of the Zekeryaev family, including their small children, was a harmless conversation on a VKontakte page deleted years ago.

• Voices of war   • Interview

Officers don’t work

A military medic from Mariupol showed phenomenal courage in Russian captivity, surpassing the plot of a famous feature film.

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