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Chernihiv village head seized by FSB for obstructing Russia’s invasion

Anatoliy Siry has not been seen since the Russians, probably from the FSB came for him, probably angered by his mobilization of local residents in blocking all roads and other resistance

• War crimes

Russians brought into occupied Mariupol in hordes, with Ukrainians treated as second-class citizens,

It says a lot when even Moscow’s ‘Russian world’ fanatics are horrified at what the Russian invaders have turned occupied Mariupol into

• Events

Savagely tortured Ukrainian political prisoner has spent nine years in Russian captivity

It is almost 9 years since Russia’s FSB abducted Valentyn Vyhivsky, held him incommunicado and savagely tortured him into ‘confessing’ to mystery spying charges

• Voices of war   • Interview

When the sky is blacker than the Earth — the battle for Dmytrivka

The village of Dmytrivka in the Buchansky district of the Kyiv Region was partially occupied at the beginning of the Russian invasion. On 30 March 2022, There was a decisive tank battle called an example of the courage and unity of Ukrainians. The village was liberated. Olha Tokiy admits that if the Russians entered her part of the village, she would ask to be shot immediately.

• other   • Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Armed terror and threats of imprisonment, or worse, if Crimean Solidarity journalist doesn't stop reporting repression in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia is not disguising its threats against Crimean Tatar journalist Kulamet Ibraimov if he continues courageously reporting repression in occupied Crimea

• Voices of war   • Interview

He dreamed of building a superhouse

Robotics engineer Mykola Kononenko has been saving money for ten years to build an original house in the village of Velyka Dymerka. Unfortunately, his house burned to the ground and cannot be restored. Mykola says he had worked with the Russians before and never had any illusions about them.

• War crimes

Kherson doctor killed in latest of almost one thousand Russian attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system

Russia has carried out almost one thousand attacks on Ukraine’s healthcare system, with many of the hospitals probably targeted deliberately – a clear war crime

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘When Freedom Square was hit by a rocket, our house shook’

Nataliia Frolova has two native cities: Berdiansk, where she was born and raised her daughter, and Kharkiv, where she had moved a few years before the full-scale war. Both cities suffered at the hands of the enemy.

• War crimes

Ukrainian children in occupied Crimea will be forced to learn how to ‘defend’ Russia in its war against Ukraine

Russia’s methods at militarizing school and pushing children to want to fight and die for the aggressor state are becoming dangerously systematic

• War crimes

Russia is illegally imprisoning over 500 Ukrainian medics in horrific conditions

Marianna Mamonova was finally released, after six months in captivity, just in time for the birth of her baby. Very many others remain imprisoned

• The right to life

Russia is brutally torturing and may kill dangerously ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner

Amet Suleimanov was sentenced to 12 years effectively for reporting on Russian repression in occupied Crimea. In his case this is undoubtedly a death sentence, with the danger imminent and mounting

• War crimes

Ukrainian priest stripped, detained and persecuted for praying for Ukraine and refusing to collaborate with the Russian invaders

While bringing terror and repression to occupied Prymorsk, the Russians forced Father Volodymyr to endure ‘lectures’ claiming that Ukraine does not exist and that they should be happy to be ‘liberated’