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Russia’s fake ‘Donetsk republic’ sentences Azov Regiment soldier defending Ukraine in Mariupol to 25 years.

Four Ukrainian POWs have been ‘sentenced’ this month to 25 or 29 years without any evidence of a crime and with effectively no chance of a fair trial

Defender of Crimean Tatar political prisoners faces 7-year sentence for posts against Russia’s war against Ukraine

Oga Smirnova is accused of ‘fakes’ because she wrote the truth about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine on eight social media posts

• Voices of war • Interview

One-way road, road back — execution

Anton Kovalenko was dragged out of the cellar and forced to carry bricks from his yard to block the windows in the houses where the Russians had set up headquarters. He had to bury a civilian shot in a car. When he evacuated his grandmother, the Russians rode tanks around a column of civilian vehicles and frightened people with stun grenades.

Russia charges abducted Ukrainian lawyer from Kherson oblast with ‘spying’ after six months of torture

Whole floors of Russian prisons set aside for holding and ‘working on’ Ukrainians whom Russia seized on occupied territory and systematic torture, including with the use of electric shocks.

• 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.

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.

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

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

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