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• 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

• The right to liberty and security

Analytical information on enforced disappearances in Ukraine

From February 24, 2022, to March 31, 2023, we collected and entered into the database of the T4P Initiative information about 2,858 enforced disappearances committed against 5,140 civilians.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia bans school remembrance of victims of the Crimean Tatar Deportation as ‘provocation’

Russia has been systematically harassing, detaining and even prosecuting Crimean Tatars for flying their flag and honouring the victims of the 1944 Deportation, and has now targeted schools

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘We looked like vagabonds — dirty and scared’

Telling her story, Iryna Kovalchuk cannot contain her emotions. The experienced fear still grips the woman. Her sons-in-law were taken prisoner and beaten, and her niece and the child were terrified when the Russians with machine guns broke into their house in search of weapons.

• War crimes

Chilling silence over Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests abducted by the Russians for grotesque 'terrorism' claims

Russia only admitted to having abducted Father Bohdan Heleta and Father Ivan Levytsky to come up with insane allegations about keeping explosives

• Voices of war   • Interview

Constant plane attacks and barrages overhead

On 24 February 2022, Valerii Kovinko and his family left the capital for their house in the village of Stoianka, Buchansky district, hoping it would be safer there. The village turned out to be in a gray zone: between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Russians. The most terrible thing, the man says, was the bombing of Russian aircraft.

• War crimes

Ukraine ‘began the war against Russia’ in Moscow’s official school history textbook

The most shocking aspect of Russia’s surreal lies about its war, Ukraine and the role of the west, is that Moscow will be using this to try to indoctrinate children in occupied Ukraine

• War crimes

Russian propaganda uses Nazi argument for seizing Ukrainian territory and claims barbaric attack was ‘revenge for fake ‘Odesa massacre’

Moscow may officially deny complicity in war crimes, but it funds a state propaganda machine aimed at justifying its genocidal war against Ukraine

• War crimes

Chernihiv village head seized by FSB for obstructing Russia’s invasion

Anatoliy Siry has not been seen since the Russians, probably from the FSB came for him, probably angered by his mobilization of local residents in blocking all roads and other resistance

• War crimes

Russians brought into occupied Mariupol in hordes, with Ukrainians treated as second-class citizens,

It says a lot when even Moscow’s ‘Russian world’ fanatics are horrified at what the Russian invaders have turned occupied Mariupol into

• Events

Savagely tortured Ukrainian political prisoner has spent nine years in Russian captivity

It is almost 9 years since Russia’s FSB abducted Valentyn Vyhivsky, held him incommunicado and savagely tortured him into ‘confessing’ to mystery spying charges

• Voices of war   • Interview

When the sky is blacker than the Earth — the battle for Dmytrivka

The village of Dmytrivka in the Buchansky district of the Kyiv Region was partially occupied at the beginning of the Russian invasion. On 30 March 2022, There was a decisive tank battle called an example of the courage and unity of Ukrainians. The village was liberated. Olha Tokiy admits that if the Russians entered her part of the village, she would ask to be shot immediately.