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Ukraine arrests Russian collaborator involved in deportation of civilians in Kherson
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has apprehended a Russian collaborator in Kherson who helped Moscow to deport…
Media: Crimean athlete faces life sentence after accusations of state treason by Russian occupation authorities
Russian authorities have intensified charges against Kyrylo Barannikov, a Crimean resident and a master of sports in orienteering.…
Russia deports 17 Ukrainian children with disabilities from Donetsk Oblast, ombudsman says
Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said Russian ombudswoman for children’s rights Maria Lvova-Belova has once…
Ukrainians in occupied territories face healthcare denial without Russian passports
In Starobilsk, occupied Luhansk Oblast, residents are being denied medical services if they do not possess a Russian passport.
Children forced to wear Russian flags in occupied Ukrainian schools – says CEO of Save Ukraine NGO
Ukraine returned four more Ukrainian children with families from temporarily occupied territories; they told NGO about their experience under Russian occupation
Russian occupation authorities may leave residents of Mariupol without heating this winter, city council warns
The occupation administration failed to prepare Mariupol for the upcoming heating season, the Mariupol City Council wrote on…
Russian occupation “authorities” reportedly began leaving the city of Tokmak as the Ukrainian army approaches
That’s according to the information of locals reported by Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of Melitopol, which is the…
Switzerland to follow EU restrictions on passports issued in occupied territories of Ukraine, Georgia
The Swiss authorities have announced Switzerland will no longer accept passports issued in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine…
Russian general reportedly dismissed for failings in Ukraine dies from “long illness” at age 58 – CNN
On 17 August, a Russian general who reportedly served as the top military commander for Ukraine last year…
Vive le résistance: how Kherson survived 255 days of Russian occupation
Kherson survived 255 days of Russian occupation. During the initial months of the war, the city’s residents gathered…
“The route to life.” How volunteers secretly rescued 75,000 from a city encircled by Russian troops
Although many maps from the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine show that Russians allegedly occupied the…
On the verge of despair yet waiting for liberation: life in Kherson after Russian occupation – report
Russian forces attempted to isolate the Kherson Oblast from the world by cutting off the Ukrainian telecom system.…
Growing partisan movement of Kherson Oblast now bombs collaborators
Russia continues telling its citizens that it came to liberate Ukraine from the yoke of “Nazis,” yet the…
She hid her daughters in the cellar for a month: how a village near Kyiv survived Russian occupation
In early May, my friends and I decided to take a trip to the village Bohdanivka with to…
Ukrainian World Congress: Seven years of war in Europe. Putin’s Big Lie continues
During the last seven years, Russia has transformed the Crimean Peninsula into one of the largest military bases…
Between occupation and annexation: finding the proper way to call Ukrainian Crimea
[editorial]In accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/68/262 of 27 March 2014, 1 the Autonomous Republic of Crimea…
Crimea. Dehydration: A film exposing Russia’s colonial policy and the desiccation of the occupied peninsula
At the beginning of the film, Andriy Senchenko, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous…
Georgia’s lessons of peacebuilding now instructive for Ukrainians
I met Julia in 2016, when being a volunteer in the summer peace camp for Ukrainian kids who…
Human sacrifices for the Kremlin’s propaganda machine: meet the “Crimean saboteurs”
“Not a single Ukrainian citizen has suffered here [since 2014], there are absolutely no restrictions, and the attitude…
A year after prominent activist was kidnapped in Crimea nobody knows if he’s alive
Late in the evening on May 24, 2016, people in Russian road police uniform intercepted and abducted the…