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Third staged 'trial' and 28-year sentence against Ukrainian prisoner of war

Russia is using an absurd and internationally condemned supreme court ruling as pretext for accusing Ukrainian prisoners of war of ‘terrorism’ for defending their country against invaders

Three years in a penal isolator

That's how much time the Kremlin prisoner and Euromaidan activist Volodymyr Yakymenko spent in a detention center over the past eight and a half years of captivity. At the end of November, he was returned to a detention center for another 5 months.

Preschool teacher abducted by the Russians, tortured and sentenced to 6 years for her refusal to betray Ukraine’

Olha Baranevska was clearly targeted by the Russian invaders of Melitopol for her pro-Ukrainian position and her refusal to take part in the indoctrination that Russia has tried to instil in preschools and schools on occupied territory

Russia sentences three Ukrainian women to 12 years for supporting Ukraine’s defenders

Olha Hulchak, Olena Penza and Yulia Stanika are among an ever-increasing number of Ukrainians sentenced to terms of imprisonment longer than those that murderers or violent criminals get for their patriotism

High-ranking post in Russia for soldier accused of grave war crimes in Ukraine

Sergei Karasyov is the latest of many individuals identified by Ukraine, western investigators and media for their believed role in atrocities during the occupation of Kyiv oblast, whom Russia treats as 'heroes'

Monstrous sentences demanded against nine men abducted from Kherson and savagely tortured for insane Russian show trial

The charges against the men bear no scrutiny, but their absurdity, as well as the clear indications of torture, are clearly of no concern to the ‘judges’

Russian sentenced to life for the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Kharkiv oblast

The court did not take into account Sergei Tuzhilov’s claim that he was “carrying out orders” when he shot dead one Ukrainian prisoner of war and instructed a subordinate to kill another

17-year-old from occupied Mariupol faces 20-year sentence on ‘treason’ charges for wanting to help Ukraine

It is worrying that the Russian FSB has only now reported the 17-year-old Ukrainian patriot’s ‘arrest, as he was clearly seized many months ago

Russia sentences Ukrainian pensioner to 12 years and forces him to ‘repent on video’ for supporting Ukraine

Sentences against Ukrainians accused essentially of patriotism are long and guaranteed, with ‘trials’ taking place in total secrecy

Ukrainian, abducted as a teenager from occupied Donbas in 2019, sentenced by Russian court to 22 years

Valery Zaitsev was just 19 when he was seized in occupied Donetsk oblast, together with his mother whom the same ‘court’ sentenced to 10 years

Ex-military and Ukrainian: No more needed for Russian ‘treason trials’ and massive sentences

Both Ruslan Chorny-Shvets and Serhiy Lykhomanov were seized over two years ago in occupied Sevastopol, with threats against Serhiy’s family used to force him to admit to surreal charges

‘Russian world’ in occupied Luhansk oblast: no heating and deliberately cut off from mobile telephones and Internet

Cities that Russia relentlessly bombed in 2022 remain in a dire state, with Russia having even stopped making the propaganda videos where they’d claim credit for renovations carried before the invasion