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Desperate plea from Russian prison: Ukrainian political prisoners need to be freed now, not after 'peace deal'

Iryna Danilovych, human rights defender, journalist and Crimean political prisoner, is not alone in stressing that the release of political prisoners, abducted civilians and POWs cannot be held hostage to other negotiations

Monstrous 27-year sentence against Ukrainian civilian abducted from Russian-occupied Melitopol

The aggressor state is claiming that legitimate attacks on its illegal officials, including collaborators, on occupied territory are ‘acts of terrorism’ and then staging show trials with the outcome predetermined

Even Putin supporter debunks Russia’s lies about a ‘Ukrainian drone attack on civilians’ in occupied Khorly

On how Russia ‘liberates’ people of their homes, and then uses them for cheap propaganda lies

No answers & questions to Red Cross after Russia holds 64-year-old Melitopol journalist prisoner for third year

Russia appears to have accused Iryna Levchenko of mystery 'terrorism' after invading her homeland and abducting her and her husband

Ukrainian POWs and civilians gunned down by Russian invaders near Pokrovsk

Victoria Shvaiko was gang-raped by the three Russian soldiers who had first tortured and then killed her pro-Russian husband

Russia subjects Ukrainian political prisoner with multiple sclerosis to medical torture for serving her country

Russia has been bombing and terrorising Ukraine’s population since February 2024, yet claimed that Kateryna Kuzmenko was guilty of ‘terrorism’ for having served Ukraine as a medic in the Aidar Battalion

Neo-Nazi sadist wanted for war crimes in Ukraine invited to give ‘lesson on courage’ to Russian children

Alexei Milchakov gave his 'lesson' just three months after fellow neo-Nazi, co-founder of Rusich and mercenary Yan Petrovsky was sentenced to life imprisonment for the war crimes which the men committed together in September 2014

Russia sentences tortured Melitopol journalist to 15 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel

This was the most chilling attack to date by the Russian invaders against Melitopol journalists and Telegram administrators, with massive sentences already passed or, unfortunately, likely in the near future.

Russian invaders abduct 52 civilians, including children, from Sumy oblast

While Ukraine is under huge pressure to ‘hand Russia unoccupied Donbas’, the invaders are continuing to seize other territory, committing the same war crimes seen in 2022

Ukraine-Sweden: Upholding Human Rights for Victims of the Russian War

A year ago, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, in partnership with the Swedish organization Eastern Group for Democracy and Human Rights (Östgruppen för demokrati och mänskliga rättigheter), began a project to assist Ukrainians who suffered from crimes committed during Russian aggression. We talked about the interim results with one of the project coordinators, Ihor Kulish. The project called “Restore Human Rights for Victims of Russia’s War” is funded by the Swedish Institute (SI).

While others are celebrating, Ukrainian POWs are being tortured in Russian prisons

Russia's torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilian hostages is unrelentingly savage, with every reason to believe that this is deliberate state policy

Not Only Dr. Evil: Medical Care behind Russian Bars

What is it like to survive in captivity, suffering from a stroke, tuberculosis, or diabetes, when instead of medical care you often receive beatings and humiliation?