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Russia’s terror by family: father and son get huge sentences on fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ charges

The FSB have been fabricating 'saboteur' charges on occupied territory since soon after Russia's invasion of Crimea, with these 'trials' of Volodymyr Perzhynsky and his son Mark very likely from the same genre

‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh

"She was not afraid to tell the invaders to their face what she thought of them. Her abduction was a warning to us all – so that we would be afraid to say a word against Russia.”

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Russia ‘arrests’ Crimean mother of two 15 months after abducting and hiding her

News of the charges against Sakha Manhubi coincided with yet another massive sentence against Yevhen Hudenkov who was held incommunicado and probably tortured for almost the same amount of time

Young Crimean deported from Kazakhstan to face huge sentence in Russia for donating money to Ukraine

All such arrests and huge sentences against Ukrainians for supporting their own country are shocking, but here there is also the chilling level of collaboration between Russia and Kazakhstan

Russia sentences son of prominent Zaporizhzhia farmer to 15 years, after abducting father & son

Although the only massive sentence yet reported was against 25-year-old Mark Perzhynsky, it may well have been his father who was targeted for his refusal to collaborate with the invaders

• Human Rights Abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea

Abducted, tortured and sentenced to 17 years for opposing Russia’s invasion and for his love of Ukraine

Yevhen Melnychuk’s patriotism and his actions during Russia’s invasion of Crimea made him an obvious target for the aggressor state

• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Four

On the night of September 7-8, 2022, in the midst of our counteroffensive in the Slobozhanshchyna region, one and a half hundred Ukrainian prisoners escaped from a torture chamber set up by the Russian occupiers in the Kupiansk police station. Among them was the director of the Lesnostinkivsky Lyceum. We are concluding the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days behind bars.

Deaths and medical torture through Russia's plunder and closure of hospitals in occupied Kherson oblast

The ill are left to die in occupied Ukraine without Russian citizenship. Or if they fall ill and need an ambulance after sunset

Savagely tortured ‘Kherson Nine’ sentenced to 155 years in grotesque Russian show trial

The Russian aggressor state, while illegally occupying Kherson, abducted the nine Ukrainians from their homes, tortured them and came up with surreal charges of ‘international terrorism’

Increasingly absurd charges used for Russia’s monstrous sentences against Ukrainians on occupied territory

Why bother with credibility when sentences are guaranteed and when lawlessness only heightens the maximum terror against the population?

• Voices of war

The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Three

During the occupation of the Kharkiv region, the Russians set up one of their torture chambers in the temporary detention facility at the Kupiansk police station. It was here that the occupiers imprisoned the director of the Lesnostenkivsky Lyceum, who categorically refused to cooperate with them. We continue the story of Larysa Fesenko, who spent 45 days in Russian captivity.

Russia guns down more civilians, attacks passenger train while TV propagandists gloat that Ukrainians are freezing

Russian drones created an inferno, killing passengers on a train in Kharkiv oblast, in just one of multiple and deliberate attacks on innocent civilians

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