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Russians bomb, pillage, rape and murder Ukrainians, then force their children to study ‘Russian traditional values’

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been plugging such ‘values’ for years, with the lack of any clear definition increasing the scope for abuse

Mariupol teenager sentenced to 7 years for supposed ‘treason’ against Russia in supporting Ukraine

Oleksandr Syrov was 14 when the Russians began bombing and besieging his native Mariupol. Three years later, the FSB came for him, accusing him of ‘treason’ and ‘spying’ for Ukraine

Prisoners beaten, threatened with new sentences to force them to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

Moscow needs cannon fodder, and when takers cannot be found who’ll agree to risk their lives for money and their freedom, other methods are applied

Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk

Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the Russian FSB have even formally charged the journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023

Abductions of Ukrainian Women and Girls

ADC Memorial and KhPG submitted analytical material to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.

Silence—as a form of torture

How and why Russia deliberately deprives Ukrainian prisoners of any information from the Motherland.

Russia resettles ‘veterans’ and their families in occupied Ukraine, while deporting Ukrainians

The chief aim is probably to change the ethnic makeup and instal people more likely than Ukrainians to be loyal to the Russian invaders

Russian invaders abduct young Ukrainian, sentence her to 12.5 years for helping Ukraine

By the end of 2024, almost a third of the massive number of Russian 'treason' convictions were against Ukrainians living on Ukrainian territory, but forced by the invading state to take its citizenship

Children abducted and held for months until their fathers agree to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine

While forcing fathers to fight by imprisoning their children as hostages may plummet new depths, Russia’s methods aimed at forcing Ukrainian to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine are also shockingly cynical and evil

Russia kills 74-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner abducted from occupied Enerhodar

Russia bears full responsibility for the torment and death in its captivity of Oleksandr Markov whose health would have already been gravely undermined by being held incommunicado, and certainly denied proper medical care for almost a year

Russia bans Internet searches for ‘extremist material’, broadening scope for terror in occupied Ukraine

This is the first time that Russia has introduced prosecution for a Google search, with even Putin chief propagandist indignant, albeit only because it will make denunciations more difficult

Horrific sentences on absurd ‘spying’ charges in occupied Luhansk oblast

Sentences of up to 18 years were passed against Ukrainian citizens, living on Ukrainian territory yet accused of having passed on information about the deployment of the Russian invaders to Ukrainian defenders