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Russia increases revenge sentences against Crimean Tatar Mejlis leader Nariman Dzhelyal and two cousins

Moscow has orchestrated sentences totalling 45 years and shattered three families in what was, from the outset, recognized as an act of revenge against Nariman Dzhelyal, for his part in the international Crimea Platform inaugural meeting in Kyiv.

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia carries out mass arrests, including of Crimean Solidarity Coordinator and journalist Lutfiye Zudiyeva

The occupation regime dropped any pretence with the arrest of Nariman Dzhelyal and the mass detention on 27 July included two journalists who were simply trying to attend a supposedly open court hearing

• Voices of war   • Interview

‘Ukrainians have a collective trauma’, — psychologist Alena Hrybanova

Where does the sadism of the Russian military come from? Why is it sometimes beneficial for Ukrainians to be victims? What's wrong with the word “victim”? We are talking to a crisis psychologist who has worked in Belarus for a long time and now helps psychologists in Ukraine.

• War crimes

UN dismisses Russia’s attempt to blame Ukraine for the deliberate killing of over 50 Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka

Russia has also blocked international investigation and a new human rights group report has found more evidence that the killings were planned, together with the target - POWs from the Azov Regiment who had, until May 2022, been defending Mariupol

• Freedom of conscience and religion

Russia sees “no grounds” to obey ECHR over deportation of Crimean Tatar political prisoners

Crimean Tatar civic journalist Seiran Saliyev and other Ukrainian political prisoners are held thousands of kilometres from their homes and families

• 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.

• War crimes

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.

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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

• War crimes

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