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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I prayed to God for my trees to resist’

Liudmyla Lomeiko, a resident of Moshun (village in Kyiv Region), used to transmit the coordinates of the enemy to her son, who is serving now in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the first days of the full-scale war. She prayed for the trees she had planted with her own hands to resist.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Every minute we wondered whether we would survive or not’

“Day and night merged into one. We were terrified of them, and I still fear them now,” says Vira Kaidan, a Zalissia resident who hid from the Russians in an unfamiliar basement for nine days. Seeing a man on the street, the Russians fired into the air, and when the family tried to evacuate, they assured them that the Ukrainians were shelling the village.

• War crimes

60 thousand Ukrainians forcibly mobilized to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Nobody knows the number of men forcibly mobilized from occupied Donbas and killed as Russia’s cannon fodder for its war of aggression against Ukraine

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘When a rocket hit our shelter, a hot water pipe there was damaged. My friend was doused with boiling water, all his clothes just stuck to him’

Denys Nozhaiskyi has relatives in Mariupol. He was in Kyiv when the war began, but fate brought him later to Bucha during the days of the heaviest shelling. The man says that now he has only one wish: to go to the war and take revenge on the enemy.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Medical torture continues as Ukrainian journalist and human rights activist deported to Russian prison

It is possibly deliberate policy that Russia's criminal charges against civic journalist Iryna Danilovych were so evidently fabricated, as a lesson to others of what they too can expect in revenge for civic courage and speaking the truth

• Events

Russians take parody 'My Denunciation' app seriously and report neighbours for opposing war against Ukraine or Putin

Even before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian regime was actively encouraging anonymous denunciations of neighbours or workmates for supposed ‘extremism’ or ‘anti-Russian views’.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘For two weeks I slept on damp earth’, — a resident of the village of Zalissia

Iryna Kovalenko celebrated her golden wedding and was involved in peaceful activities usually done by villagers. She never thought that the so-called “brothers” would come to kill and destroy houses. She had to leave the occupation in a car shot through by the Russians, and when the woman returned, she saw ashes and devastation.

• War crimes

Russia’s fake ‘Donetsk republic’ sentences Azov Regiment soldier defending Ukraine in Mariupol to 25 years.

Four Ukrainian POWs have been ‘sentenced’ this month to 25 or 29 years without any evidence of a crime and with effectively no chance of a fair trial

• Events

Defender of Crimean Tatar political prisoners faces 7-year sentence for posts against Russia’s war against Ukraine

Oga Smirnova is accused of ‘fakes’ because she wrote the truth about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on eight social media posts

• Voices of war   • Interview

One-way road, road back — execution

Anton Kovalenko was dragged out of the cellar and forced to carry bricks from his yard to block the windows in the houses where the Russians had set up headquarters. He had to bury a civilian shot in a car. When he evacuated his grandmother, the Russians rode tanks around a column of civilian vehicles and frightened people with stun grenades.

• War crimes

Russia charges abducted Ukrainian lawyer from Kherson oblast with ‘spying’ after six months of torture

Whole floors of Russian prisons set aside for holding and ‘working on’ Ukrainians whom Russia seized on occupied territory and systematic torture, including with the use of electric shocks.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea   • Events

Open death threats against Ukrainian political prisoner in Russian captivity

There is every reason to believe that the appalling treatment that Ivan Yatskin is facing in Russian captivity is, like his very arrest, linked with his firmly pro-Ukrainian position

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