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Huge revenge sentences for elimination of Russian commander suspected of killing 59 civilians at Hroza funeral wake

After murdering 59 civilians, including a child, in a Kharkiv oblast village, Russia claimed that the death of a military commander believed responsible was an ‘act of terrorism’

Russia reacts with threats, lies and fake ‘tribunal’ to pivotal move on accountability for its war of aggression against Ukraine

The ballast and intimidation came as Ukraine and the Council of Europe signed a vital agreement on creating a Special Tribunal to provide justice over Russia's crime of aggression

Ukrainian hostage from occupied Luhansk oblast found in Russian prison after four years of torture

Kostiantyn Kalinchenko was first ‘sentenced’ by a fake, Russian-controlled occupation 'court't to 12 years on ‘treason’ charges, with this nonsense against a Ukrainian citizen then repeated in a revamped Russian sentence

Oksana Fedorova sentenced to over 10 years for ‘endangering Russian security’ on occupied Ukrainian territory

The 53-year-old from occupied Kherson oblast was formally ‘arrested’ months after being abducted and held incommunicado by the Russian invaders of her Ukrainian home

Torture of civilians by Russians in temporarily occupied territory is a crime against humanity (Press release)

Today, the 'T4P' Initiative presented a communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, substantiating that the torture of civilians in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories constitutes both a crime against humanity and a war crime.

Russia is to remove Ukrainian language from curriculum in occupied Ukraine

“There is no crime more terrible on occupied territory than identifying as Ukrainian", and if parents won’t be intimidated into rejecting Ukrainian language education for their children, they must be forced

Abducted and tortured Ukrainian sentenced to 13 years for fictitious plan to kill Russian-installed Crimean leader

There is no proof of any plan to kill Sergei Aksyonov, and it is unclear why the FSB trumpeted their ‘arrests’ of Volodymyr Bodnar, Oksana Shevchenko and 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev, only to stage three separate ‘trials’

‘I got caught in your meat grinder’ — the appeals court in the Russian Federation upheld Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky behind bars

The Second Appeals Court in St. Petersburg upheld the sentence of Ukrainian Ivan Zabavsky, a resident of the Kharkiv region, sentenced to 11 years. In 2022, the occupiers captured him when he tried to save his mother, whose home was literally on the front line.

What Russian soldiers seize is ours, Putin claims, quoting Hitler

The Russian leader also claimed the right (presumably) to slaughter any number of Ukrainian civilians, including well over 600 children, because, he asserts, we're all "one people"

20-year sentence on copy-pasted charges against Ukrainian abducted from Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast

Russia, as aggressor state, is not only claiming that legitimate resistance against its military invasion is ‘terrorism’, but is also manufacturing a suspiciously large number of ‘trials’ with near identical indictments

7-year-olds in occupied Ukraine taught how to become part of Russia’s war machine

Russia has lowered the age to seven of activities aimed at teaching children, including in occupied Ukraine, to operate the drones it is using to slaughter Ukrainian civilians

Russian court ignores abduction and torture, increasing huge sentence against Ukrainian for trying to rescue his mother

Ivan Zabavsky was abducted by the Russians as he tried to save his mother, after his aunt was killed by Russian shelling, and systematically tortured for ten months