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Russia’s ‘Youth army’ used in occupied Ukraine to recruit young Ukrainians to die for the enemy

Russia’s militarization of childhood on occupied territory, and militaristic formations like ‘Yunarmia’ are war crimes, with Russia now using this so-called 'Youth Army' to get new ‘cannon fodder’ for its army

Russia effectively acknowledges scale of its war crimes through horrific ‘sentences’ against Ukrainian POWs

Russia almost certainly tortured the ten Ukrainian prisoners of war before staging these latest fake ‘trials’ and sentences of up to life imprisonment

Life sentence sought in Finland against Russian neo-Nazi charged with war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky is on trial, under the name Voislav Torden, assumed to try to avoid international sanctions, accused of five grave war crimes in occupied Luhansk oblast

Russia concocts 11-year sentence for 'spying' almost 3 years after abducting and torturing Vladyslav Bily

37-year-old Vladyslav Bily disappeared without trace in March 2022, with Russia only admitting to holding him and coming up with 'spying' charges in September 2024

Russians torture Mayor of Dniprorudne Yevhen Matveyev to death

In February 2022 Yevhen Matveyev led unarmed residents of Dniprorudne in telling Russian invaders to keep their tanks out of his Ukrainian city. He was seized two weeks later and had not been seen since

Russia brings ‘spying’ charges after abducting and torturing young Ukrainian with serious psychiatric condition

The Russians almost tortured and starved Leonid Popov to death in 2023, and have now brought immensely cynical ‘spying charges’ against an immensely vulnerable young man in desperate need of medication and care

Three Ukrainian teenagers face possible life sentences in latest Russian show trial

The three were arrested in occupied Melitopol almost a year ago and Russia’s behaviour to date gives no grounds for hoping that their age would protect them from being tortured for ‘confessions’

Russian teachers trained to 'reform' Ukrainian children in occupied Ukraine

While cultivating far-right and neo-Nazi movements worldwide, Russia and its propaganda bodies present efforts to destroy Ukrainian identity as ‘countering neo-Nazism’

Russia sentences abducted Kherson oblast deputy to 12 years for refusal to collaborate

Ihor Protokovilo is one of many Ukrainian elected deputies, mayors, journalists, civic activists and other civilians whom Russia has been holding prisoner, usually incommunicado since 2022

16-year sentence proves Russia’s lies and savage torture of Ukrainian patriot Serhiy Kuris

Serhiy Kuris was subjected to electric shocks, horrific beatings and other torture, but it was the threat to torture his wife and baby son that forced him to sign ‘confessions’ which he later retracted, graphically describing the methods applied

Russian invaders forced unarmed Ukrainian POWs to strip naked, then killed them

Further evidence has emerged, through an intercepted call, that such war crimes are deliberate Russian policy

19-year-old from Russian-occupied Luhansk faces 15-year sentence for donation to Ukraine’s Azov Regiment

The ‘terrorism’ charges against Ivan Semykoz for supporting Ukrainian defenders were under an occupation department “on investigating particularly important cases”,

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