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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

Russian soldiers murder three pensioners in occupied Kherson oblast

64-year-old Olha Hladka, her husband Victor and their neighbour Victor Nadeiev were all shot and killed by Russian soldiers, the latest of many victims of Russian lawlessness and impunity

Russia’s highest court approves abduction and breathtakingly lawless 10.5-year sentence against Ukrainian patriot Iryna Horobtsova

Three Russian or Russian occupation 'courts' have seen no problem with passing a huge sentence for 'spying' despite the most compelling of 'alibis', namely that they had abducted Iryna Horobtsova 11 months earlier

Ukrainian journalists identify key perpetrators of horrific Russian war crimes in Yahidne

The Russians who used 369 residents of Yahidne, including many children, as human shields, holding them prisoner in an overcrowded school basement without enough air, tried to leave no traces of their identity. They failed

Russia bombs hospitals, schools and apartment blocks, while building more prisons in occupied Ukraine

The aggressor state’s priorities have always been propaganda and repression with FSB and ‘police’ far more concerned with persecuting those supporting Ukraine than in fighting crime

Support Nadin Geissler!

The team at the Lithuanian charity foundation Action4Life — are launching the international campaign #Action4Nadin in support of Nadezhda Rossinskaya (Nadin Geissler), who has been sentenced in Russia to 22 years in prison for providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine. KHPG joined the campaign.

Russian ‘judges’ rubberstamp huge conveyor belt sentences on insane ‘terrorism’ charges against Ukrainian POWs

Russia is using obedient 'judges' to claim that men, defending their country, are somehow 'terrorists'

Ukrainians in occupied Ukraine without Russian citizenship labelled ‘foreigners’ and face deportation

The Russian invaders have already staged a few videoed ‘deportations’ from occupied Ukraine. Now any Ukrainian who has withstood the pressure to take Russian passports will face deportation

Why is Russia hiding 77-year-old Spanish volunteer abducted from occupied Ukraine in 2022?

If the reason for secrecy this time is that Mariano Garcia Calatayud [Mario] died in Russian captivity, then Russia bears full responsibility and should be made to answer for it