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Ukrainians treated as ‘foreigners’ and stripped of all rights in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Had the invader's 'referendum' at gunpoint really produced overwhelming support for 'joining Russia', the latter would hardly need the aggressively coercive measures being taken to force Ukrainians to accept the occupiers' citizenhip

Ukraine names Russian commander suspected of issuing order to kill civilians in Bucha

At least thirteen civilians were shot and killed in the three days after Artem Tireiev ordered his men to open fire at anybody passing by. The victims included Iryna Filkyna who was recognized because of her red fingernails

Russia blocks YouTube and VPN in occupied Ukraine

Together with aggressive indoctrination and propaganda, Russia is seeking to impose a full information blockade both at home and on all illegally occupied Ukrainian territory

Mustafa Dzhemilev: Russia’s occupation of Crimea spells the death of the Crimean Tatar people and forced exile

Russia would almost certainly use any 'peace deal' as opportunity to prepare for further aggression, while Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians under Russian occupation would continue to endure mounting terror and repression

Russia stages fake ‘saboteur’ trial after abducting 56-year-old Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee

While systematically bombing Ukrainian electrical infrastructure, Russia is claiming, almost certainly without evidence that 56-year-old Natalia Shulha was part of a ‘plot’ to damage an electricity pylon

Ukrainian sentenced to 22 years as ‘rail partisan’ in Russian-occupied Crimea

As well as specific incriminating details about this ‘trial’, it is worth remembering Russia’s track record in abducting and torturing Crimeans, and threatening to kill them or hurt their families in order to extract ‘confessions’

Russian invaders abduct 53-year-old Ukrainian and sentence her to 9 years on insane ‘international terrorism’ charges

The charges laid by the aggressor state against Iryna Kulish were very obviously fabricated, as well as extraordinarily cynical and lawless given that Russia is illegally occupying her Ukrainian home

Invaders gun down more unarmed Ukrainian POWs as proof mounts that such war crimes are Russian state policy

The number of killings this year alone, as well as intercepted calls ordering such executions, point to such flagrant war crimes being part of Kremlin policy

Abducted Kherson activist sentenced for ‘spying for Ukraine’ while in Russian captivity denied vital medical treatment

Russia’s ‘spying’ charges are as cynical as the initial claim that Iryna Horobtsova was being held for opposing Russia’s invasion, but the charges do reach new depths of lawlessness

Duma broadens ‘treason’ charges against anybody opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine

Russian legislators have dangerously broadened the definition of charges standardly used against Ukrainian political prisoners and civilian hostages, while also extending the range of targets

Russia churns out surreal ‘terrorism’ sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Ukraine

The manipulative methods used to try to prove that men defending their country were ‘taking part in a terrorist organization’ are pitiful, and terrifyingly lawless

20-year-old from Mariupol sentenced to 11 years for argument opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine

Russia’s invasion and occupation of Mariupol have brought repression, torture and a chilling resurrection of the worst Soviet practices, including denunciation by collaborators