Menu
War crimes
ECHR finds Russia responsible for downing MH17; summary executions; torture & other mass-scale crimes in Ukraine

The European Court of Human Rights judgement is damning and especially important in highlighting the scale of Russia’s crimes against Ukraine and its denial of Ukraine’s right to exist

Abducted, raped and tortured, Natalia Kozhemiatska faces huge sentence in Russia on fabricated charges

Natalia was savagely raped and tortured by the Russians who abducted her in May 2024, and has been imprisoned ever since, with her family seriously concerned about her state of health

Russia stages terror arrests in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast for donations to Ukraine’s Armed Forces

The good news is that Russia remains unable to overcome resistance to its occupation. The bad news is that there are no methods of terror that the invaders will not use

Ukrainian POW sentenced to 23 years for ‘‘British training in sabotage’ and attack on effective Russian military base

The illegal charges against Yevhen Horin were probably based solely on ‘confessions’ extracted to torture, with Russia further claiming that it was the British who trained Horin in ‘sabotage’

Huge revenge sentences for elimination of Russian commander suspected of killing 59 civilians at Hroza funeral wake

After murdering 59 civilians, including a child, in a Kharkiv oblast village, Russia claimed that the death of a military commander believed responsible was an ‘act of terrorism’

Russia reacts with threats, lies and fake ‘tribunal’ to pivotal move on accountability for its war of aggression against Ukraine

The ballast and intimidation came as Ukraine and the Council of Europe signed a vital agreement on creating a Special Tribunal to provide justice over Russia's crime of aggression

Ukrainian hostage from occupied Luhansk oblast found in Russian prison after four years of torture

Kostiantyn Kalinchenko was first ‘sentenced’ by a fake, Russian-controlled occupation 'court't to 12 years on ‘treason’ charges, with this nonsense against a Ukrainian citizen then repeated in a revamped Russian sentence

Oksana Fedorova sentenced to over 10 years for ‘endangering Russian security’ on occupied Ukrainian territory

The 53-year-old from occupied Kherson oblast was formally ‘arrested’ months after being abducted and held incommunicado by the Russian invaders of her Ukrainian home

Torture of civilians by Russians in temporarily occupied territory is a crime against humanity (Press release)

Today, the 'T4P' Initiative presented a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, substantiating that the torture of civilians in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories constitutes both a crime against humanity and a war crime.

Russia is to remove Ukrainian language from curriculum in occupied Ukraine

“There is no crime more terrible on occupied territory than identifying as Ukrainian", and if parents won’t be intimidated into rejecting Ukrainian language education for their children, they must be forced

Abducted and tortured Ukrainian sentenced to 13 years for fictitious plan to kill Russian-installed Crimean leader

There is no proof of any plan to kill Sergei Aksyonov, and it is unclear why the FSB trumpeted their ‘arrests’ of Volodymyr Bodnar, Oksana Shevchenko and 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev, only to stage three separate ‘trials’

‘I got caught in your meat grinder’ — the appeals court in the Russian Federation upheld Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky behind bars

The Second Appeals Court in St. Petersburg upheld the sentence of Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky, a resident of the Kharkiv region, sentenced to 11 years. In 2022, the occupiers captured him when he tried to save his mother, whose home was literally on the front line.