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Brutal FSB set-up to sentence 21-year-old Donetsk woman to 20 years for patriotism

Maria Hryn was just 20 when she was very likely tricked into making a patriotic video and (possibly) planning a petrol bomb attack in occupied Donetsk

Russian soldier sentenced to life for killing two Ukrainian POWs in cold blood

Vladimir Ivanov is the third Russian to have been convicted of killing Ukrainian prisoners of war, with all three saying that the order to kill had come from their commander

Kherson father and daughter abducted, tortured and given huge sentences for trying to escape Russian occupation

The Russian invaders have yet again opted for easy victims - Oleksiy Demianenko and his very young daughter, Anzhelika, who only tried to leave occupied Kherson oblast

Russia’s FSB to receive unlimited power to block access to Internet and mobile phones in occupied Ukraine

The FSB will be able to block whoever they like, with no pretence that this is for security reasons

Russia uses illegal ruling outlawing a different ‘Crimean Tatar Battalion’ for huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs

Bohdan Musikhin is one of 14 Ukrainian prisoners of war declaring political prisoners after Russian passed monstrous sentences against them for having served their country

Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed

The decision to readmit Russia to any Olympic event is an outrage and profound affront to all victims of Russia’s aggression, including the slain athletes whom Vladyslav Heraskevych was punished for honouring

Detained Russian archaeologist wanted in Ukraine for crimes in occupied Crimea could be tried in Poland

Russian academics are being advised not to visit ‘unfriendly’ countries – like Poland which has heeded Ukraine’s request and detained Alexander Butyagin for his involvement in Russia’s illegal excavations and looting in occupied Crimea

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