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Russian War Crimes

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Russian War Crimes in Ukraine, Chechnya, Syria, and other countries.

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“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.

byVira Kravchuk

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Russian War Crimes

“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.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

Before and after Russian captivity, Oleksandr Hrytsiuk.

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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.

byVira Kravchuk

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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.

byOrysia Hrudka

torture chamber Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast

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“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

byOrysia Hrudka

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“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.

byOlesia Lantsman

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Russian War Crimes

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

byAlya Shandra

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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

byChristine Chraibi

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Russia about to conscript teen it kidnapped from Ukraine

First, Russia kidnapped Bogdan Ermokhin from occupied Mariupol, then it forcefully adopted him. In two weeks, it will likely send him to the Army as Russia scrambles to assemble manpower to keep invading Ukraine.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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“They just did it for fun”: Ukrainian survivors detail Wagner group horrors

In Ukraine, the Wager mercenaries killed Ukrainian POWs and mounted their heads on poles, set them on fire after drenching in gasoline, and cut off ears and fingers during interrogations – or just for fun — says a new report by a human rights group.

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Top-10 Russian genocidal quotes about Ukraine

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Top-10 Russian genocidal quotes about Ukraine

Vladimir Putin and Russian officials have left no room for ambiguity: they openly aim to erase Ukrainians as a nation. Vote to choose the most blatantly genocidal and chauvinistic utterance of Russian propagandists or officials in our poll.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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“Abducted Childhood”: A documentary revealing life inside Russia’s Ukrainian child brainwashing program

First-hand accounts depict the hunger, homesickness, and violence kidnapped kids endure at propaganda centers training them to be Russian. One boy, forcefully adopted into Russia, has never seen his mother again.

byOlena Mukhina