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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.

News

Russian invaders sentence Melitopol resident to 18 years for brazenly fake ‘thwarted saboteur plot’

Russia has brought abductions, torture and videoed ‘confessions’ to every part of Ukraine that falls under its occupation, with no attempt to prevent glaring discrepancies

Russians savagely execute unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war

This apparent execution of an unarmed POW whose hands were probably bound is the latest of 64 currently under investigation with such war crimes of a systemic nature

Russia confirms horrific 17-year sentence against blind and disabled Ukrainian on insane ‘terrorism’ charges

Three men have been imprisoned for 12-17 years, without any crime, on the basis of planted ‘prohibited religious literature’ which Oleksandr Sizikov could not have read as it wasn’t in Braille and a notorious ‘secret witness’

Leniye Umerova and many other Ukrainian political prisoners and POWs released in major Ukraine – Russia exchange

49 Ukrainian POWs and civilian hostages were freed on 13 September, 103 POWs released the following day. While Ukraine rejoiced, Putin and Russian propaganda media were silent about the prisoners of war returned to Russia

Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ used to get Ukrainians on occupied territory to fight against Ukraine

Russia has dropped any pretence that membership of Yunarmia is voluntary, and that it is not linked with trying to force young Ukrainians to fight and die for the invading state

Occupation 'court' increases sentence against abducted Crimean Tatar for not admitting to fictitious ‘crime’

58-year-old Akim Gafarov, who was seized from occupied Kherson oblast back in 2022, was also deemed to not be ill enough despite serious health issues

Crimean imprisoned for criticising blocking of YouTube in occupied Ukraine and Russia

Suleiman Yusupov was hunted down by the notorious CrimeanSMERSH, forced to ‘repent’ on video and ‘tried’ for asking why others were silent when Russia was trying to crush their freedom

Russians carry out terror raids of families with school-age children in occupied Kherson oblast

Such aggressive methods to eradicate anything but Russian propaganda-filled ‘schools’ may well be because of continued resistance to Russian occupation

Abducted Ukrainian labelled a ‘zombie’ and charged with ‘terrorism’ for supporting Ukraine and calling Russia an invader

Kostiantyn Zinovkin is one of hundreds of people from Melitopol seized and tortured by the Russians, with charges laid after weeks or months held incommunicado

Savage torture and 11-year sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Kherson

Ukrainians came out everyday in protest at Russia’s occupation of Kherson in early 2022. Russia reacted both by opening fire and by abducting peaceful protesters like Serhiy Arefiev whom they then tortured and ‘tried’ on spying charges

Publications

The Complexities of Working in a Conflict Zone and Mechanisms for Seeking Justice for the Victims and Survivors of Violence

Yevhen Zakharov's speech at the conference of partners of the “Dignity” Centre on 17 September

‘My mother died, unable to bear that horror’

Serhii Parfuliuk is a resident of the village of Moshchun (Kyiv Region). His house was completely destroyed by shelling, and his mother died after being evacuated, unable to bear the horrors of war.

Between despair and hope: 89 families from the Kyiv Region are waiting for their nearest and dearest from captivity

Why international humanitarian law is powerless to free civilian hostages? Do state and international organizations help relatives of captives? How do we not lose hope? Here is a conversation with the Initiative Group “Our Dearest” representatives.

As of 19.08.2024, we know the whereabouts of 2,510 Ukrainian prisoners

The T4P website now has live statistics on the locations where Ukrainians are being held in Russia and the temporarily occupied territory.

Cultural genocide is hard to prove, — says US professor

John Hall spent nine weeks in Ukraine and came to some astonishing conclusions.

A Vision of Victory

Only a free society of responsible citizens in partnership with a robust democratic state can overcome a totalitarian empire that is many times stronger in terms of resources.

‘Russia has systematically committed enforced disappearances in the same scenario’. T4P Initiative presents new research

Russia’s long-term war against Ukraine and the recent years of full-scale Russian invasion have added to the history of atrocities. Enforced disappearances have become one of the darkest pages of this history. Lists of Ukrainians to be disposed of, children illegally detained in the temporarily occupied territories, and families still searching for their loved ones. 5340 victims. The global initiative T4P (Tribunal for Putin) discussed this during the research presentation on enforced disappearances.

‘He raised his machine gun and started shooting at’

Mykhailo Tepliuk from Bohdanivka (a village in Kyiv Region) was walking home when a Russian soldier sitting on a tank started shooting at him. The first two bul-lets pierced his knee, while the third tore off his hat and grazed his temple. Later the Russians came to his house looking for weapons, even searching the first floor.

Tortured and killed — civilians of the village of Moshchun

During the occupation of Moshchun (a village in Kyiv Region), the Russian military did not spare civilians. Olha Ivanenko's grandfather was found with three bullet wounds in his head. Olha still cannot understand why the Russians killed the 74-year-old disabled man.

‘The Russians deliberately took Ukrainian children out in groups’

How Russians complicate the search for Ukrainian children, bullying of Ukrainians in European schools, family reunification - Maryna Lypovetska talks about the difficulties and joys in the work of the “Magnolia Child Tracing Service”.

‘We must condemn communismʼ,— Refat Chubarov

Interview with the leader of the Crimean Tatars.

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian hostages are in the Russian Federation

How we are freeing Ukrainians from Russian captivity. Interview with Artur Dobroserdov, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine's authorized representative concerning persons missing under special circumstances.