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Young Mariupol woman sentenced to 13 years for donating to Ukraine’s Army after her POW husband died in Russian captivity

Russia's huge sentences against Ukrainians for donations to Ukraine's defenders are always monstrous, but that against 25-year-old Angelina Skyba defies belief

Russia sentences Crimean Tatar prisoner of war to 20 years for serving in Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Seiran Asanov was accused of ‘involvement in a terrorist organization’ and of ‘treason’ for defending his own country against the Russian invaders

Ukrainian sentenced to 20 years for “wanting to blow up railway’ used for Russia’s war against Ukraine

Andriy Diachenko may or may not have been a ‘railway partisan’, but he is undoubtedly a victim of Russia’s brazen persecution of Ukrainians on illegally occupied territory

Crimean gets long sentence for opposing invasion while Russian politicians freely incite to genocide against Ukraine

Serhiy Tubolets is the latest victim of Russia's use of flawed 'terrorism' legislation in its arsenal against Ukrainians

Russia causes humanitarian disaster in occupied Oleshky while blocking any escape

Locals suspect that they are not being allowed out of Oleshky deliberately as the Russians need them there as human shields while carrying out systematic attacks on Kherson from the city.

Anna Bazikalo sentenced to 16 years two years after her abduction from Russian occupied Luhansk oblast

Even by Russian standards, the sentence was brutal and handed down after almost two years of being held incommunicado

Russia sentences former Ukrainian defender to 19 years after torturing out a backdated ‘confession’

This latest fake trial of a Ukrainian for defending his country is especially cynical as Dmytro Nosenko’s captors tortured out a grotesque ‘confession’ to involvement in a ‘terrorist organization’

Russia imposes criminal liability for denying previously unknown ‘genocide of the Soviet people’

The new law will further silence historical discussion and strengthen punitive measures already used against those who speak honestly about Soviet crimes, including the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people

Melitopol IT specialist sentenced to 20 years after Russians torture out a ‘confession’ to ‘terrorist plans’

Artyom Krasko was abducted almost two and a half years ago from his native Melitopol, with it likely that he was held incommunicado without any procedural status

Russian judge convicted of war crimes over massive sentence against Ukrainian POW for defending his country

Sergei Obraztsov was well-aware that he was in violation of the Geneva Convention and fundamental principles of law when he sentenced 18-year-old Vladyslav Plakhotnik to 18 years for serving in a Ukrainian Armed Forces regiment

Russia tortures two young Melitopol schoolboys to death, passes long sentences against three other lads

It is near certain that all five lads, aged 16 and 17, were tortured, with Viktor Azarovsky, Oleh Shokol and Denys Vasyliuk later subjected to a predetermined 'trial'. Danylo Dakhov and Pavlo Hrymak died in Russian captivity

Students in occupied Crimea and Russia coerced, conned and threatened into going to fight against Ukraine

Russia is enlisting educational institutions as accomplices in trying to trick or force students to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine