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Russia sentences 70-year-old pensioner from occupied Tokmak to 15 years for supporting Ukraine

All of Russia’s sentences against Ukrainian patriots are shocking, but here the aggressor state first forced Svitlana Loi to take its citizenship and is now almost certainly putting her life in danger

Abducted, likely tortured and sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russian occupation of Kakhovka

Iryna Hedzyk had been held incommunicado for almost 18 months when Russia announced 'spying charges' and then, two weeks later, a 10-year sentence

Ukrainian POWs forced to exhume the dead in Mariupol, with the Russians looting the bodies

Serhiy Hrytsiv was first forced, together with other POWs, to retrieve the bodies of civilians, including children, from buildings Russia had destroyed, and then tortured for one of the aggressor state’s grotesque show trials

Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured to death in Russian captivity

Bohdan Usenko and Andriy Zdorenko were taken prisoner while defending Mariupol and died in Russian prisons, almost certainly because of the torture to which they were subjected

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.”

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

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?

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