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Russia passes massive sentences against 15 Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine against its invasion

Using a ruling issued long after the prisoners of war were seized and then put on ‘trial’, Russia claimed that their defence of their country was ‘terrorism’ and ‘a violent attempt to seize power’

Abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer sentenced to 16 years on grotesque ‘treason’ charges

55-year-old Ruslan Lavryk now urgently needs hospitalization, with the Russians having doubtless tortured him, as they have many other employees from the nuclear power plant under their occupation

Symbolic 'execution of enemies of Russia’ in a school in occupied Donetsk oblast

The action, especially the teachers’ willingness to ‘execute’ whichever ‘enemies’ they were told to target , is chilling

Ukrainian in Russia for her brother’s funeral sentenced to 12 years for 16 donations to Ukraine’s Armed Forces

Tetiana Omelchenko is one of a mounting number of Ukrainians sentenced to horrific terms of imprisonment merely for supporting the Armed Forces defending Ukraine

Uncle Vanya, Bison, San Sanych — who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war?

Ukrainians returning from captivity will undoubtedly never forget those who turned their lives in imprisonment into hell. Everything is known about some of the torturers. Others hide behind a call sign. After a “working day,” these “San Sanych”-es wash the blood off their hands and go home to hug their wives and children.

Doctor first abducted from occupied Donbas in 2015 sentenced to 15 years ‘for spying for Ukraine’

Serhiy Petryk spoiled the propaganda video which is one of the reasons for these travesties, by saying he was innocent and a Ukrainian citizen, and doing so in Ukrainian

Telling omissions in Russia's show trial claiming Ukraine’s use of 'chemical weapons of mass destruction'

Russia used Diliaver Kurshutov, and an elderly couple from occupied Melitopol, for bizarre claims involving chemical weapons supposedly used by the USA and other NATO countries

Russian prison identified where Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna and Yevhen Matvieiev died after being tortured

Victoria Roshchyna’s transfer to the prison in Perm region was tantamount to torture given her emaciation and the torture she had endured. 63-year-old Dniprorudne Mayor Yevhen Matvyeyev was effectively beaten to death

Russia foists state-controlled 'MAX' app on occupied Ukraine with terrifying powers for surveillance

IT experts warn that the installation of MAX is equivalent to voluntarily passing your telephone into the total control of the security service

Russians accused of killing Donetsk oblast couple, seizing their child as human shield

While not the first time that Russia has used civilians as human shields, this war crime, if verified, is especially monstrous as the young girl was seized after probably witnessing her parents being killed

Young Ukrainian from occupied Donetsk oblast sentenced to 16.5 years for social media post

Russia is mass-producing surreal sentences based on cynical abuse of terrorism and ‘treason’ legislation

Russia sentences Ukrainian POW Ihor Kim twice to 24 and 27 years for defending Mariupol in 2022

The charges on both occasions were grotesque, with the alleged 'confession' almost certainly extracted through torture