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Ukraine’s powerlifting champion sentenced in Russia to 19 years for partisan acts in defence of her home

“I decided to fight against Russia’s military aggression.  Perhaps my words are worsening my position, but, your honour, my conscience is more important for me.”  From Yulia Lemeshchenko’s final address to the Russian court before its horrific sentence.

Berdiansk man sentenced to 12 years after 18 months in Russian torture prisons

Volodymyr Yatsun was abducted twice, although the stunt claiming to show his 'arrest' was probably staged long after the 50-year-old from occupied Berdiansk (Zaporizhzhia oblast) had been seized by the Russians

“‘Insane nonsense to hand Donbas over to Russia’. Sloviansk residents knew occupation and don’t want it again

Residents of government-controlled Donbas have no wish to 'be voluntarily handed over' to Russia and fear the Russian soldiers who "gun down civilians"

Ukrainian POW subjected to two fake trials and massive sentences in revenge for defending Mariupol

Ivan Melnykovych is the latest of a huge number of Ukrainian defenders to be sentenced on surreal 'terrorism' charges after Russia first staged a quite different show trial

Russians use child and her parents as human shields in their attack on Pokrovsk

Russia has been using civilians as human shields since 2014, with its systematic and murderous attacks increasingly condemned, not only as war crimes but as crimes against humanity

Russia sentences Melitopol man to 14 years for 2017 demonstrations and a social media comment

The charges against 24-year-old Denys Shepotko, under Russian legislation concerning events over which Russia had no jurisdiction, are a legal absurdity.

Russian FSB gets carte blanche to torture and fabricate sabotage charges against 14-year-olds

The reduction in age of criminal liability is chilling given the very suspicious circumstances around the killing by Russia of at four 16-year-old lads from occupied Berdiansk and Melitopol

Russia stages new ‘trial’ of savagely tortured Ukrainian partisan already sentenced to 26 years

The charges against Hryhory Sinchenko, Volodymyr Makarenko and Dmytro Palenko are grotesque with Russia’s torture of Sinchenko dating back to long before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

First arrest under new Russian law over an Internet search for Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

The move is particularly chilling as the 20-year-old student was detained just hours after browsing the Internet

Crimean woman sentenced to 5.5 years for social media criticism of Russia's war against Ukraine

Although Kateryna Fomenko was charged with 'circulating military fakes', all of the comments first used for administrative prosecutions were critical of Russia's war of aggression, but in no way false

Sinister secrecy over Russia’s abduction, torture and imprisonment of Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska

Russia has held Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska incommunicado, without any charges being laid for well over two years. It is chillingly unclear why they appear to be hiding her

Russian solider sentenced to life for gunning down an unarmed Ukrainian POW

Despite the mounting number of Russian executions of Ukrainians surrendering, this was the first such trial, with the soldier’s commander having confirmed they were instructed not to take prisoners

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