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He dreamed of building a superhouse

Robotics engineer Mykola Kononenko has been saving money for ten years to build an original house in the village of Velyka Dymerka. Unfortunately, his house burned to the ground and cannot be restored. Mykola says he had worked with the Russians before and never had any illusions about them.

• War crimes

Kherson doctor killed in latest of almost one thousand Russian attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system

Russia has carried out almost one thousand attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system, with many of the hospitals probably targeted deliberately – a clear war crime

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘When Freedom Square was hit by a rocket, our house shook’

Nataliia Frolova has two native cities: Berdiansk, where she was born and raised her daughter, and Kharkiv, where she had moved a few years before the full-scale war. Both cities suffered at the hands of the enemy.

• War crimes

Ukrainian children in occupied Crimea will be forced to learn how to ‘defend’ Russia in its war against Ukraine

Russia’s methods at militarizing school and pushing children to want to fight and die for the aggressor state are becoming dangerously systematic

• War crimes

Russia is illegally imprisoning over 500 Ukrainian medics in horrific conditions

Marianna Mamonova was finally released, after six months in captivity, just in time for the birth of her baby. Very many others remain imprisoned

• The right to life

Russia is brutally torturing and may kill dangerously ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner

Amet Suleimanov was sentenced to 12 years effectively for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea. In his case this is undoubtedly a death sentence, with the danger imminent and mounting

• War crimes

Ukrainian priest stripped, detained and persecuted for praying for Ukraine and refusing to collaborate with the Russian invaders

While bringing terror and repression to occupied Prymorsk, the Russians forced Father Volodymyr to endure ‘lectures’ claiming that Ukraine does not exist and that they should be happy to be ‘liberated’

• other   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia increases revenge sentences against Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal and two cousins

Moscow has orchestrated sentences totalling 45 years and shattered three families in what was, from the outset, recognized as an act of revenge against Nariman Dzhelyal, for his part in the international Crimea Platform inaugural meeting in Kyiv.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia carries out mass arrests, including of Crimean Solidarity Coordinator and journalist Lutfiye Zudiyeva

The occupation regime dropped any pretence with the arrest of Nariman Dzhelyal and the mass detention on 27 July included two journalists who were simply trying to attend a supposedly open court hearing

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Ukrainians have a collective trauma’, — psychologist Alena Hrybanova

Where does the sadism of the Russian military come from? Why is it sometimes beneficial for Ukrainians to be victims? What's wrong with the word “victim”? We are talking to a crisis psychologist who has worked in Belarus for a long time and now helps psychologists in Ukraine.

• War crimes

UN dismisses Russia’s attempt to blame Ukraine for the deliberate killing of over 50 Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka

Russia has also blocked international investigation and a new human rights group report has found more evidence that the killings were planned, together with the target - POWs from the Azov Regiment who had, until May 2022, been defending Mariupol

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Russia sees “no grounds” to obey ECHR over deportation of Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev and other Ukrainian political prisoners are held thousands of kilometres from their homes and families