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• Voices of war • Interview

‘Go away and don’t come back’

Olha Lasa says that after the occupation of the village Velyka Dymerka, the Russians drove a tank into her garden and hid in the cellar, kicking her, the owner, out into the street. A large hospitable house, where children and grandchildren visited, burned down.

Russia’s reported mining of the Crimean Titanium factory 'could kill tens of thousands'

It is hard to believe that any number of deaths or level of environmental damage would prove an obstacle given the likelihood that Russia deliberately blew up the Kakhovka Dam, and is destroying other dams to obstruct Ukraine's counter-offensive

Record 32 countries join Ukraine’s Genocide case against Russia at UN International Court

Although the charges were initially over Russia’s lies about supposed ‘genocide’ as excuse for its full-scale invasion, there are serious grounds for accusing Russia of waging a genocidal war against Ukraine

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Former Crimean Tatar Mejlis official abducted and tortured, then imprisoned on absurd charges in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia’s latest abduction, torture and imprisonment of Crimean Tatar Eldar Mensitov came just days after it faced questioning over its racial discrimination before the International Court of Justice at the Hague.

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I looked at him and saw that he had no arm...’ — a resident of Makariv urban-type settlement tells how the invaders killed his grandson

Yurii Pladko is a pensioner from Makariv (Buchanskyi district, Kyiv Region). The war brought much grief to his family. The man tells about the invaders: “They didn’t look who was there — child or adult — they just shot whoever they wanted...”

Pregnant woman and others killed as the Russians shoot at volunteers and those fleeing the Kakhovka Dam flooding

Tetiana Hryshko and her unborn daughter, a 74-year-old and others are among the civilians Russia killed as they tried to help relatives flee from the flooding

Russians seize and torture two 16-year-old Ukrainian lads, threaten 20-year sentences

Russia is planning a grotesque show trial of two Ukrainian teenagers from occupied Berdiansk whom it is accusing of ‘sabotage’, with at least one of the lads subjected to savage forms of torture

• Voices of war • Interview

‘I dream about Ukraine victory’

Mariupol is one of the main symbols of the Russian army's war crimes in Ukraine. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group is engaged in documenting crimes and helping the victims. Oleksandra Netkacheva survived many shellings of the city. Unfortunately, her husband was injured during one of them and died in the hospital.

Russia shells Kherson evacuation point, obstructs rescue efforts on occupied territory

Russia shelled an evacuation point where people were fleeing for their lives. On occupied territory, it is obstructing those trying to rescue people and making such rescue dependent on them having Russian passports

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine

Bohdan Ziza was charged with ‘terrorism’ although he had called for peace, not killings, and would probably not now be imprisoned at all had he not protest against Russia’s constant murdering of innocent civilians.

Not Kakhovka Dam alone: Russia destroys dams in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

While western media largely ‘play safe’ and report that Kyiv and Moscow ‘are blaming each other’ for the horrific disaster, the Russian invaders are actively destroying other dams in occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia oblast

• Voices of war • Interview

‘Couple of men were sitting drinking tea in the kitchenette. A shell fell there and they were just torn apart. The soldiers buried them right in the vegetable garden...’

Pensioner Mykola Perepelytsia lives in Krasnopillia (Donetsk region). His village has been subjected to numerous airstrikes. He says: “An aircraft came every morning, smashing houses and tearing down roofs”.

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