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"They gave us no protective gear apart from a helmet and a cross" – the disabled in Ukraine’s Occupied Territories are being forced to fight 

he Security Service of Ukraine has released a video with two prisoners from the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR). They say they were forcibly mobilized despite their disabilities. Everyone who gets caught by the local authorities is forced to join the army.

Russia uses abducted Ukrainians for propaganda video claiming Ukraine is bombing ‘liberated’ Melitopol

It is near certain that the men gave their supposed ‘confessions’ under torture, with the video yet another extraordinary attempt by Russia to try against all evidence, to blame the Ukrainian Armed Forces for its bombing and shelling of civilians

Ukrainian POWs and abducted civilian hostages illegally imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea

Since the beginning of Russia’s total invasion, Russian soldiers have been abducting Ukrainian civilians, many of whom are held prisoner in occupied Crimea

Artist disappears after arrest for pro-Ukrainian anti-war protest in Russian occupied Crimea

The whereabouts are unknown of Yevpatoria artist Bohdan Ziza {Azizov) who was detained for a pro-Ukrainian protest in the centre of occupied Yevpatoria on 16 May.

After destroying Mariupol, Russia offers its victims money but only if they agree to blame Ukraine

The Mariupol city authorities have learned of yet another attempt by Russia to blame Ukraine for the carnage and devastation the world has witnessed Russian inflicting upon the Ukrainian port city

Russia deports Ukrainians to occupied Donbas, forcing them to fight its war against Ukraine

Russia has a problem manning its aggression against Ukraine, and one of the methods it is using is forcing Ukrainians from occupied territory to fight against their fellow Ukrainians

Crimean teacher dismissed and threatened with prosecution for telling students the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine

Geography teacher Susanna Bezazieva told her students in Russian-occupied Crimea that Ukrainians are defending their homes, their freedom and independence

Russia sends relatives of Ukrainian soldiers and other Mariupol residents to ‘concentration camp’ in occupied Donbas

More than a million Ukrainians are reported to have been deported to Russia, but others, deemed ideologically ‘unreliable’ end up in a camp at Olenivka, perhaps also the notorious Izolyatsia secret prison

Russia uses collaborators to ‘ask Putin’ for annexation of entire Kherson oblast

Russia’s state-controlled media claimed on 11 May that ‘the Kherson regional authorities will ask Putin to join Russia’, with the ‘authorities’ in question a motley bunch of collaborators

Horrific conditions and torture in Russian filtration camp ‘ghetto’ for Mariupol residents

The Russian invaders finally allowed 4-year-old Alisa and other civilians to leave Azovstal on 8 May, but took Alisa's mother away to a so-called 'filtration camp'

Russia destroys Ukraine's National Skovoroda Museum in 'ideological attack on Ukrainian identity'

Those indignant that Russian ‘apolitical’ cultural events have been cancelled because of the war should recall Russia’s destruction of the last home and museum of a great philosopher whom Russians don't want to accept was Ukrainian

Russian invaders destroy 97-year-old Ukrainian WWII veteran’s home

While Russia prepares a grandiose display of military firepower in Moscow for the 77th anniversary of Victory Day, its soldiers are aiming their firepower against Ukrainian World War II veterans, Holocaust survivors and other civilians