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• Voices of war   • Interview

One step away from death — the story of volunteer Maksym Vainer

Maksym Vainer worked in an international team engaged in medical evacuation in the Bakhmut area. They were trying to evacuate a woman wounded after a shelling when a Russian missile hit their car. Maksym received numerous injuries, and his partner, an American medical volunteer, Pete Reed, died.

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

Gravely ill Crimean Tatar civic journalist sent to certain death in Russian prison

Russia has already caused the deaths of two Ukrainian political prisoners, and has now flouted the United Nations Committee against Torture and begun implementing an effective death sentence against Amet Suleimanov

• War crimes

Russia uses fake ‘republics’ to sentence POWs to hundreds of years for defending Ukraine

Russia is almost certainly using torture and fake ‘witnesses’ to try to rewrite the facts and ‘sentence’ Ukrainian prisoners of war for war crimes which it committed

• War crimes   • Research

Shelling of civilians: The T4P Initiative has prepared a submission to the International Criminal Court. Press Release

On August 22, the T4P Initiative presented a document to the International Criminal Court regarding attacks on Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops.

• War crimes

Finland detains Russian neo-Nazi ‘Rusich’ leader wanted for war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovskyl, together with fellow neo-Nazi sadist from St Petersburg Alexei Milchakov, face charges of war crimes back in 2014 and 2015 as the leaders of the notorious 'Rusich' unit, which is now affiliated with the Wagner group

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

22 Crimean Tatars, including the fathers of imprisoned Crimean Solidarity activists, jailed for trying to attend an ‘open court hearing’

The fathers and other relatives of Crimean Solidarity activists arrested the day before simply hoped to see the men during the detention hearing, but were detained, some violently

• Announcements

Genocide in Mariupol. Legal rationale of the international crime

The initiative of the T4P (Tribunal for Putin) will present its first document with systematic justification of Russia committing a genocide in Ukraine. A large submission, in both Ukrainian and English, will be sent to the International Criminal Court.

• Freedom of conscience and religion   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB seize Crimean Tatar family’s last son in new wave of terror against Crimean Solidarity activists

Russia has taken all three sons from Crimean Tatar historian Shukri Seitumerov and his wife Lilia, with the persecution in each case chillingly similar to the charges used during Stalin's Terror to arrest and execute their great-grandfather

• War crimes

Ukrainian naval captain’s abduction, torture and long sentence will be repeated until Russia is driven out of Ukraine

The abduction of 59-year-old Oleksiy Kiselyov from occupied Kherson oblast, savage torture and ‘trial’ on insane charges can befall any Ukrainian with a clear civic position on any Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘The man killed by a Russian sniper could not be buried for two months’

At the beginning of a full-scale war, the quiet life of the Stoianka village inhabitants in the Kyiv Region turned into hell. The Russians bombed the village from planes, tortured and killed people in their homes, and snipers shot people on the roads. A village resident, Olena, says they practically could not get out of the cellar due to heavy shelling.

• War crimes

Russia approves fake 'court' sentence against renowned Ukrainian rights defender, journalist and prisoner of war

The three ‘judges’ were fully aware that Maksym Butkevych’s ‘trial’ in Russia's proxy 'Luhansk republic' was, as Human Rights Watch put it a ‘cynical farce’

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

Russia has killed two Ukrainian political prisoners and is endangering at least 21 others

The Soviet regime also denied Ukrainian political prisoners medical treatment and caused their deaths, but, according to one former Soviet political prisoner, the level of lawlessness was not as bad as now