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• 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

• War crimes

Russian-installed ‘leader’ in occupied Ukraine acknowledges that Ukrainians hate and try to kill them

Even Russians supporting their country’s invasion of Ukraine, and local collaborators admit that they have every reason to fear for their lives, with the population hating them

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia begins trial of Crimean Tatars arrested after humiliating attack by Ukraine

The false claims made by Russia’s FSB and propaganda media only compounded suspicion that the five Crimean Tatar journalist or civic activists had been arrested in revenge for a devastatingly effective attack that Russia was denying

• other   • Events

63% of Russians view bloody dictator and mass murderer Stalin positively. In Ukraine only 4%

A substantial majority of Russians view mass murderer and dictator Joseph Stalin “with respect, admiration or approval”. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, just 4% of Ukrainians give such a response

• Voices of war   • Interview

American Volunteer at Bucha Morgue

Patrick Loveless came to Bucha immediately after its release: he helped to sort the corpses in the Bucha morgue and saw and felt the consequences of what the Russians did. What he saw shocked him so much that he could not forget about it.

• War crimes

Russia passes grotesque sentences against Azov Regiment POWs taken prisoner for defending Ukraine

The ‘sentences’ against Pavlo Artemenko and Anton Romaniuk are, presumably, to be used as ‘proof’ to back Russian attempts to turn reality upside down and blame Ukraine for the crimes its armed forces have been committing on Ukrainian territory

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean imprisoned for ‘discrediting Russia’s army’ and its war crimes in Ukraine on social media

Danylo Seryohin is the latest victim of draconian legislation rushed through immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in order to silence protest

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘I prayed to God for my trees to resist’

Liudmyla Lomeiko, a resident of Moshun (village in Kyiv Region), used to transmit the coordinates of the enemy to her son, who is serving now in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the first days of the full-scale war. She prayed for the trees she had planted with her own hands to resist.

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Every minute we wondered whether we would survive or not’

“Day and night merged into one. We were terrified of them, and I still fear them now,” says Vira Kaidan, a Zalissia resident who hid from the Russians in an unfamiliar basement for nine days. Seeing a man on the street, the Russians fired into the air, and when the family tried to evacuate, they assured them that the Ukrainians were shelling the village.

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