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• Voices of war • Interview

Eight days in the ice-cold cellar

Antonina Vakulenko from Velyka Dymerka in the Kyiv Region found herself under occupation with her 30-year-old son, who uses a wheelchair. They hid in the cellar for over a week and prayed to God that the invaders would not find them.

UNESCO and journalist union ‘deplore death’ of a propagandist engaged in Russia’s war against Ukraine

Rostislav Zhuravlev was actively involved, from 2014, in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and was killed on occupied Ukrainian territory working for the Russian state-controlled RIA Novosti

• Voices of war • Interview

They covered the child’s mouth so that the Russians would not find people in the cellar

This is the story of Nadiia Makartseva, a village Velyka Dymerka resident who spent almost a month in the occupation. The Russians she had to communicate with said they were forced to fight. But this did not prevent them from shooting people on the roads, looting, and acting like they owned people’s houses.

Russian Orthodox church repeats Kremlin lies about its barbaric bombing of Odesa Cathedral and city centre

“I saw that the Russian missile that you blessed had struck right in the altar, the holiest of places”.. It is not only Odesa Archbishop Viktor who is appalled by the support Moscow patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) is giving to Russia’s war against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russian FSB threatened to kill Ukrainian sportsman’s mother to extract ‘confession’ to Crimean rail sabotage

Ukrainian orienteering sportsmen have issued an urgent appeal demanding that Russia end its torture of their colleague and #FreeKyryloBarannyk

Russia fabricates idiotic language motive for first trial and likely huge sentence against Ukrainian PoW

This is the first of many ‘trials’ of Ukrainian PoWs held in Russian captivity and almost certainly tortured for propaganda and fabricated charges

Belarus Red Cross abet Russia in kidnapping and brainwashing children from Ukraine

Ukraine has called on the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant against Dzmitry Shautsou, head of the Belarusian Red Cross with the latter’s activities warranting intervention by the International Committee of the Red Cross

Mother of two abducted from Melitopol, tortured and held prisoner in Moscow

How do you explain to children that the Russians who invaded your home are holding your mother prisoner and calling her a ‘terrorist’?

• The right to life

ECHR strikes out Russia’s attempt to blame Ukraine for the downing of MH17

Russia’s application to the European Court of Human Rights may well have always been aimed at causing more delay to the important interstate case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia over the latter’s role in MH17

• Voices of war • Interview

‘With a white scarf towards Russian tank’

Maryna Belkova lived in Bohdanivka, Kyiv Region. She had to ask permission from the Russian military to evacuate her family. Her son hung white ribbons on the car, and Maryna walked in front with a white scarf in her hands. The Russians took away the son and husband of her relative. Their fate, like the other missing men, is unknown.

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

Two Ukrainians face long sentences for Bible studies in Russian-occupied Crimea

Yuriy Herashchenko and Serhiy Parfenovych face up to ten years’ imprisonment for practising their faith, with no possibility, by definition, of a fair trial.

Russians torture imprisoned 75-year-old Spanish volunteer seized in occupied Kherson

Russia only admitted to holding Mariano Garcia Calatayud prisoner in occupied Crimea after information became available about his whereabouts and the torture he had been subjected to

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