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‘We dream of becoming unnecessary’: the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative presents three-year report

On March 25, 2025, the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative released the results of its three years of work — nearly 85,000 documented war crimes and nine submissions to the International Criminal Court.

Russia’s most savage sentence yet against 66-year-old Ukrainian woman from occupied Crimea

The indictment seems copied verbatim from other such fabricated ‘trials’ of Ukrainians, but this time Russia is planning to imprison Nina Tymoshenko until she is 82

Russia’s enforced disappearances of Ukrainian civilians are crimes against humanity – UN Commission

These must not simply be harrowing details of Russian crimes, with the UN Commission stressing that judicial and non-judicial accountability are vital for ensuring sustainable peace.

Putin gives Ukrainians on Ukrainian territory until 10 September to get Russian citizenship or face deportation

This is part of very aggressive measures by the invading power to either foist Russian citizenship on Ukrainians living in occupied Ukraine, or force them out, with Moscow clearly bringing Russians in as part of its attempts to destroy Ukrainian identity

Ukrainian POWs on surreal ‘trial’ expose Russia’s terrorism, its bombing of a children’s hospital and other war crimes

Sentences of up to 22 years are guaranteed from politically compliant ‘judges’, but the Ukrainians demolished all of Russia’s lies about their ‘trial’ and about its war crimes against Ukrainian civilians

Russia passes horrific sentence against young Ukrainian patriot after years of savage torture

Hryhory Sinchenko will be turning 34 on 11 May 2025 in a Russian prison. He has endured years of torture because of his sense of justice and opposition to Russia’s occupation of his native Donetsk oblast

Russians abduct and torture father and teenage son from occupied Luhansk oblast

The Russians abducted Artem Kudzhanov when he was just 19 and had held him for over a year, before his family even learned that he was alive. By then the Russians had also seized Artem’s father, Ibragim Kudzhanov

Putin 'threatens' Ukrainian POWs with war crimes Russia is already committing en masse

Russia has long used and tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war to try to rewrite the facts about its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is now using particularly cynical claims about men seized in Kursk oblast

Kremlin celebrates as Trump administration cuts key source of information about Russia’s crimes in occupied Ukraine

The Trump administration appears bent on silencing Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, something Moscow tried but failed to achieve and that will only help escalate its repression and crimes in occupied Ukraine

Russian neo-Nazi mercenary sentenced to life in Finland for war crimes in Ukraine

Yan Petrovsky / Voislav Torden, co-founder of the notorious Rusich far-right mercenary group, claimed to have never committed the war crimes about which he and fellow neo+Nazi Alexei Milchakov very publicly boasted

Abducted Crimean Tatar political prisoner dies in Russian captivity

Russia bears full responsibility for the death in its custody of 60-year-old Rustem Viratti, who should never have been held prisoner.

Forced 'to wake up a foreign citizen in her own country’. Kateryna Korovina sentenced to 10 years for opposing Russia’s occupation

Russia’s information blockade in occupied Ukraine makes it chillingly difficult to know how many victims are even referred to, but this latest sentence was for donations worth less than 11 euros