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‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh

"She was not afraid to tell the invaders to their face what she thought of them. Her abduction was a warning to us all – so that we would be afraid to say a word against Russia.”

Young Crimean deported from Kazakhstan to face huge sentence in Russia for donating money to Ukraine

All such arrests and huge sentences against Ukrainians for supporting their own country are shocking, but here there is also the chilling level of collaboration between Russia and Kazakhstan

Russia sentences son of prominent Zaporizhzhia farmer to 15 years, after abducting father & son

Although the only massive sentence yet reported was against 25-year-old Mark Perzhynsky, it may well have been his father who was targeted for his refusal to collaborate with the invaders

Deaths and medical torture through Russia's plunder and closure of hospitals in occupied Kherson oblast

The ill are left to die in occupied Ukraine without Russian citizenship. Or if they fall ill and need an ambulance after sunset

Savagely tortured ‘Kherson Nine’ sentenced to 155 years in grotesque Russian show trial

The Russian aggressor state, while illegally occupying Kherson, abducted the nine Ukrainians from their homes, tortured them and came up with surreal charges of ‘international terrorism’

Increasingly absurd charges used for Russia’s monstrous sentences against Ukrainians on occupied territory

Why bother with credibility when sentences are guaranteed and when lawlessness only heightens the maximum terror against the population?

Russia guns down more civilians, attacks passenger train while TV propagandists gloat that Ukrainians are freezing

Russian drones created an inferno, killing passengers on a train in Kharkiv oblast, in just one of multiple and deliberate attacks on innocent civilians

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'