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Liquidating the SOVA Center: The Official End of Religious Freedom in Russia

By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of freedom of religion remain in Russia.

Russian invaders abduct Ukrainian volunteer caring for elderly grandmother in occupied Melitopol

This is the second time that Illya Yenin has been abducted by the Russians and there are strong grounds for fearing that torture is being used to extract some kind of surreal 'confession'

• Voices of war • Interview

A small loaf of gray bread, a quarter for each family

Iryna Kravchenko is a resident of Rubizhne. In 2014, the invaders retreated, leaving behind devastation and mined forests. In 2022, they returned and practically destroyed the city.

Young Crimean Tatar illegally imprisoned in Russia on ‘treason’ charges for trying to visit gravely ill father

Russia’s FSB have concocted absurd ‘treason through spying’ charges against 25-year-old Leniye Umerova, five months after she was first detained while trying to visit her father, who is suffering from cancer

Public execution and savage torture for supporting Ukraine in Russian-occupied Skadovsk

The Russians who swarmed into parts of Kherson oblast at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion expected to be greeted with open arms, and instead met with anger and resistance

• Voices of war • Interview

‘The city became a ghost… Everything burned with blue flames’

A resident of Popasna, Ivan Hnatenko, hid in the basement for 38 days. One day a rocket hit his house. He collected snow in buckets with his neighbors, trying to extinguish the fire, but the house burned down. The Russians plundered his son and daughter's property. He says that he will not wish such a fate to the enemy.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB make mass arrests, claiming they 'thwarted Ukrainian terrorist plot' in occupied Crimea

As with the alleged drone attack on Putin, there is no evidence that there genuinely were such ‘terrorist plans’

Ensuring that Russia answers for its killing of children in Uman and countless other war crimes

Russia is continuing to target civilians, with the latest missile strikes in Uman and Dnipro timed to cause maximum carnage and suffering

• Voices of war • Interview

‘We collected snow, heated it and cooked food on it’, says a mother of many children from Mariupol

Kateryna Mykula escaped with her three children from Mariupol. She tells how they lived in a basement, cooked on a fire, and most of all they were afraid of the enemy aircraft because in an airbomb crater even a “KAMAZ” (large truck) could hide — so big this crater was. The interview was prepared by Lviv journalist Taras Zozulinskiy.

FSB behind the torment and endless stream of sentences in Russia against 25-year Crimean Tatar

There are strong grounds for fearing that the FSB are using administrative arrest on fake charges to drag out Leniye Umerova’s imprisonment while they fabricate criminal charges against her

Russia to deport Ukrainians who reject Russian citizenship from occupied Ukraine as ‘foreigners’

In theory, such a refusal alone is not enough, however actions that constitute normal behaviour in Ukraine and any democratic country could be deemed to “pose a threat to Russia’s national security” and used as grounds for deportation

• Voices of war • Interview

‘For some reason we were convinced that our house would not be hit by a rocket’

Squirrels, four cats, a dog, guinea pigs — with all this wealth, future veterina-rian Oksana Lopatiuk escaped from a burning house.

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