Life sentence for Russian who executed Ukrainian POW exposes stark asymmetry in prisoner treatment
International monitors document systematic Russian violations of POW rights
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Russian War Crimes in Ukraine, Chechnya, Syria, and other countries.
Russia isn’t just stealing land—it’s stealing children, homes, and identities
This approach by a high-level Russian official is mirrored across occupied territories, where authorities enforce Russian schooling with threats to seize children, militarize youth through combat training, prosecute Ukrainian identity as terrorism, and control information access.
Russian drones hunted Ukrainian civilians with cameras, then struck. UN now calls it a crime against humanity
Civilians hunted by coordinated drone attacks across 300km of the Ukrainian-held territory.
Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna posthumously named World Press Freedom Hero
Award honors journalist killed in Russian captivity for her fearless reporting from occupied Ukraine
Ukraine’s FM calls Russia “worse than Hamas” as 465 drones strike energy grid on attack anniversary
Sybiha: Even Hamas agreed to ceasefire talks, Moscow rejects all diplomacy
Russians captured him, cut his throat, and left Ukrainian POW to die. He survived and wants revenge for tortured comrades
National Guard soldier Vladyslav was dragged into a basement near Pokrovsk and watched how the Russians tortured seven Ukrainian defenders before they slashed his own throat and dumped him in a pit with their bodies, thinking he was dead. He was not.
Ukrainian journalist abducted from his garden in 2022 returns from Russian captivity weighing less than 45 kg
Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk returned from Russian captivity in the latest exchange on 24 August, weighing less than 45 kg (99 lbs), as he spent three years in Russian prison after his abduction near Kyiv in 2022.
Russian “Doctor Evil” posts about loving family and medical pride online, while he degrades and tortures Ukrainian POWs in reality
Investigators identified a Russian doctor who shocked Ukrainian prisoners of war with stun guns, forced them to bark like dogs and crawl on floors, made them recite degrading slurs, and denied them medical care.
Russia killed her mom and little sister. Now her iPhone keeps showing them smiling.
The photo shows Mariia's proud face after cutting her own hair.
A Russian drone flew into Ukraine’s “hidden” Krab gun — and exposed a billion-dollar flaw in artillery design
A Russian drone slipped into a camouflaged dugout and destroyed a Krab howitzer. The real damage? A warning to every army still betting on heavy artillery.
Russia bombs Ukrainian hotels full of journalists — 31 times, on purpose
A new report calls it a calculated assault on the press.
Forbidden stories: Ukrainian journalist went to document torture in Russian detention — her body returned without organs
26-year-old Viktoriia Roshchyna wanted to document the treatment of Ukrainian civilians in Russian-occupied detention centers, but she was captured and tortured herself, becoming a victim of the system she was investigating.
“Putin’s Hitler-Jugend.” Russia builds tomorrow’s army with stolen Ukrainian children, Yale lab reveals
Russian military recruiters visit facilities housing deported Ukrainian children, delivering combat readiness lectures while the Kremlin creates special quotas for orphans in cadet schools.
“You torture Russians, too” UN says, as skeletal Ukrainian prisoners of war return from captivity
While Ukraine grants UN monitors full access to its POW facilities, Russian detention centers remain completely closed to outside observers. The condition of returning Ukrainian prisoners—marked by visible signs of torture and neglect—underscores mounting allegations of war crimes.
Starvation, beatings, nails ripped out: Russia systematically tortures Ukrainian POWs till death
Death certificates of Ukrainian defenders whose bodies were returned from Russian captivity usually state tuberculosis or heart attack as a cause of death; however, their bodies show visible signs of torture and starvation, and witness accounts of cellmates who survived Russian captivity prove inhumane treatment and humiliation.
This winter, 32 Ukrainian POWs were executed by Russian forces, UN report reveals
Before being executed, one Ukrainian soldier was forced by the Russians to conduct demining work.
“Welcome to hell”: UN report exposes Russia’s systematic torture, killings, and crimes against humanity in Ukraine
"No creature alive deserves to be treated like Russians treat Ukrainians in their detention facilities," a Ukrainian POW told the UN commission
“Russians tortured us so badly we thought we wouldn’t make it out alive,” civilian survivors say
A Ukrainian detainee said the savage beatings he endured were so extreme, he was certain he wouldn't survive the torture alive after Russians used nightsticks, kicks, and fists simultaneously.
Sleuths find Russian forces responsible for deadly missile strike on Ukrainian pizzeria
Colonel Vitaly Bobyr has been named by investigators as the Russian officer in command of forces that struck the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk with cruise missiles in June, killing 13 civilians
Freed medic: Russians raped girls as young as 14 in Ukraine prisons
Separate cells to rape young women, medieval torture instruments, and burning prisoners alive: after one year in captivity, a Ukrainian medic who treated torture victims details the horrors in Russian prisons