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• Voices of war   • Interview

‘They burned down the house in front of the neighbor’

Step by step, Aniuta Myronets, a pensioner from Velyka Dymerka, is restoring everything the Russians destroyed. She borrowed money to patch the house and clean up the yard. While she was evacuated, Russian soldiers lived in her home. They kicked out the neighbor from her place and burned it down in front of her.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s first Ukrainian political prisoner: ‘Russians know no limits in their use of torture’

Mykola Shyptur spent nine years in Russian captivity for a pro-Ukrainian demonstration in occupied Crimea and, probably, because the appearance of a police officer prevented the Russian paramilitaries from simply abducting and killing him

• War crimes

Majority of Ukrainians say reconciliation with Russia is impossible and reject any territorial concessions

An absolute majority of Ukrainians now see reconciliation with Russia as impossible in their lifetime and would not agree to any territorial concessions ‘for the sake of peace’

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

Russia ignores own sentences to ramp up reprisals against Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Crimean Solidarity civic activist Rustem Emiruseinov and two other Crimean Tatars, Arsen Abkhairov and Eskender Abdulganiev, have now been illegally held in the worst of Russian prison cells for six months longer than their sentences demand

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘My three-year-old son says: Putin should be buried in his bunker — then there will be no war’

Teacher Alina Veshchuk lived in Horlivka (Donetsk Region) until 2015. Then she fled the occupation to Kramatorsk. In 2022, history repeated itself again... She says that back in 2014 she already understood how the enemy was fighting: “Friends saw “Grad” (multiple rocket launcher) drove into the field, shoot at Toretsk, where the Ukrainian army was, then this “Grad” turned around and shot then back at Horlivka: the enemy wanted people in Horlivka to think that it was Ukrainian army shot back at them”.

• War crimes

Crucial step taken to ensuring Russia answers for its crime of aggression against Ukraine

The work of the new International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine should help to bring Russia, and its leaders to account for the most egregious crimes committed in Ukraine.

• Civic society

Thank You Letter to the Lev Kopelev Forum from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Humane universal values is what Lev Kopelev defended resolutely and continuously. And this is indeed what the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group strives for in its daily work.

• Civic society

The Klitschko brothers, Taira, and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group will receive the Lev Kopelev Prize

On June 30, the Lev Kopelev Forum, founded in Cologne, Germany, announced three laureates of the “For Freedom and Human Rights” award, bestowed annually since 2001.

• War crimes

Nearly 1200 Ukrainian children abducted to Russia and placed with Russian families

Russia is deporting children without making any real effort to find out if the children have families, and is almost openly seeking to forcibly turn them into ‘Russian citizens’

• War crimes

Ukrainians may be put in camps and deported as ‘foreigners’ from Russian-occupied Donbas

After virtually razing Mariupol and other cities in occupied Donbas to the ground, Russia is escalating terror and threats of deportation to try to force surviving residents to accept Russian citizenship

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Revenge sentence against Crimean civic journalist Iryna Danilovych upheld despite grotesque charges and ongoing medical torture

All those involved in the prosecution of Iryna Danilovich knew that they were taking part in reprisals against a person for her courage and refusal to be silenced in the face of mounting repression

• War crimes

Russia hides Kharkiv student abducted 15 months ago ‘for opposing’ its invasion

Mykyta Shkriabin, a third-year law university student, has not been seen since he was seized by Russian soldiers in Kharkiv oblast on 29 March 2022

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