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Russia abducts 18-year-old from occupied Melitopol, sentences her two years later to 18 years for photos of FSB

Daria Kulik was just 17 when the Russians invaded her native Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia oblast. They took her prisoner a year later

Final blow to Ukrainians on occupied territory as Russia blocks private calls through WhatsApp and Telegram

Russia is aggressively seeking to block truthful information and contact between Ukrainians that it is unable to control

Russia uses lawless 'terrorism' ruling to pass huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Mariupol

Russia was recently forced to reveal a Supreme Court ruling from 2 August 2022, banning the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Azov Regiment. The ruling only confirms the lack of any justification and total contempt for the law behind the ban

Ukrainian media forcibly replaced on occupied territory with ‘Russian World’ propaganda

Putin has also signed into law the effective criminalization of Internet searches for what is called ‘extremist’ content and the use of VPNs to access ‘prohibited’ sites, all dangerously broad terms covering just about everything Ukrainian

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