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Press Release: International campaign for the release of captives held as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Online press conference: On the tragic anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine the UN Special Rapporteur, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and human rights groups demand to free all captives of war.

Three Years of Full-scale Russia-Ukraine war: the Kharkiv Region

To date, personal data of 7,225 witnesses and victims of international crimes allegedly committed by the Russian occupiers, as well as 117 probable perpetrators of such crimes, have been recorded by our organization in the Kharkiv Region.

Europe Needs Peace, Not a New ‘Munich Agreement’

Three Years Since the Beginning of Russian Aggression Against Ukraine

Children in occupied Ukraine get brainwashing ‘lesson’ on 24 February about Russia ‘liberating’ them

Children in all occupied parts of Ukraine will be told that Russia’s full-scale invasion was not about military aggression, unprecedented since World War II, but about ‘reinstating historical justice’

73-year-old Melitopol pensioner sentenced to 14 years in Russia’s conveyor belt ‘treason’ trials for supporting Ukraine

Russia’s massive increase in so-called ‘treason’ cases is, in part, because Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory are being abducted, usually tortured and sentenced to 10 years or more for donations to Ukrainian defenders

Seventh year of life-threatening torture in Russian-occupied Donbas for supporting Ukraine

Russia can no longer deny its responsibility for civilian hostages first seized and savagely tortured in occupied Donetsk oblast in 2017-18, including Ihor Kirianenko whose life it is directly endangering

Russian on trial for killing Ukrainian POW with his commander confirming ‘order to not take prisoners’

This is the first trial where the defendant is present, but is by no means the first evidence of orders issued by Russian commanders to kill captured soldiers

Russia sentences Mariupol mother of four to 14 years on 'terrorism' and ‘treason’ charges

It is unclear where Anastasia Todurova, a mother with small children, was supposed to have hidden explosives, nor what kind of ‘terrorist act’ the FSB claim to have thwarted

Ukraine removed from rewritten history of WWII as Russia tries to justify its full-scale invasion

Any world leaders who stand with Putin on Red Square on 9 May will be complicit in Russia’s rewriting of history and attempts to compare Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with victory over Nazi Germany

Russia passes 10-year sentence over two years after abducting and torturing 20-year-old Kherson student

Hanna Yeltsova had been held incommunicado for almost two years, and almost certainly tortured, when the Crimean FSB suddenly claimed to have 'arrested' her and brought spying charges

Toddlers in occupied Ukraine forced to draw ‘thank you’ cards to Russian invaders

If 3-year-olds in Kherson oblast would have been simply drawing pictures, some of the school children in Mariupol will have been 'thanking' fighters of an aggressor state that killed their relatives, destroyed their home and shattered their childhood

Russia sentences Ukrainian to 8.5 years for donation as a teenager to Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

Russia’s ‘trials’ of Ukrainians like 20-year-old Ivan Semykoz are doubtless partly aimed at instilling terror and showing that any support for Ukraine will be uncovered and punished