Mass graves in liberated Izium: Photo report
After the liberation of Izium from Russian occupation on 10 September in Ukraine’s offensive in northeastern Ukraine, a…
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Russian War Crimes in Ukraine, Chechnya, Syria, and other countries.
“Thin fingers raised like a final plea for help.” Exhuming the Izium massacre
121, 122, 123… Carelessly knocked together wooden crosses are marked with numbers. Their barely visible inscriptions blur into…
Killed for refusing to shout “Glory to Russia!”: Russian war crimes in Trostianets
On 24 February 2022, two powerful columns of the Russian army broke into Sumy Oblast. One was intended…
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…
Russian war crimes: “denazifying” Ukrainians through deportation, torture, detention and filtration camps
Putin’s brutal approach to eliminating the Ukrainian population currently centers on eastern and southern Ukraine. For journalists and…
Only 53% of Kadyrov’s troops in Ukraine are ethnic Chechens
Ukraine’s intelligence service has established that only 53 percent of the men who are listed as volunteers from…
Russian war crimes. Mutilated bodies of Ukrainian soldiers found in trench in Kyiv Oblast
The two Ukrainian soldiers lived on Myru Street in the village of Zdvyzhivka in Kyiv Oblast. Pavlo Kholodenko…
He was a Putin fan. Then Russians bombed his house
Before the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, each trip I took to the beautiful city of Chernihiv was…
Russian soldier sentenced for life in Ukraine’s first Russian war crimes case
In Ukraine's first sentence over Russian war crimes, 21-year-old Russian sergeant Vadim Shishimarin was sentenced to life for…
War crimes: identifying and recording mass graves in Ukraine
Mass graves are being documented daily in Ukraine, both in the liberated villages of Kyiv and Chernihiv Oblasts…
Russian attack on Ovruch: greenhouses bombed, death, devastation, and ruins all around.
My decision to go to Ovruch was pretty spontaneous. The city is located very close to the border…
EU, UN: focus on human rights abuses against women in Ukraine
In a resolution passed on Thursday, 5 May, in Strasbourg, the European Parliament condemned the use of rape…
Russian war crimes in Katiuzhanka: torture chamber, toilets in classrooms, and stolen lingerie
The picturesque village of Katiuzhanka is located 47 km north of Kyiv and is hidden in the deep…
Ukrainians report over 400 cases of rape and other forms of sexual abuse by Russian troops
More than 400 cases of brutal sexual abuse by Russian troops have been reported to the Ukrainian authorities,…
Threatening Kherson farmers, Russian troops steal grain from Ukraine
Contents “Give us your property or you will end up beheaded” Ukrainian grain is stolen and transported to…
Cruelty, murder, and destruction in Bucha
My friend Nina is a journalist from Finland. She came to Ukraine just a few days after I…
“Three Russian soldiers raped my mother and sister. The fourth made me watch.” Hundreds of cases of rape by Russian soldiers in Ukraine
Contents Rape – a “standard tactic” of the Russian military “No, you will watch” “We’ll rape you to…
Russian occupiers in Makariv shelled the civilian shelter “in an instant” – Dispatch from Ukraine
The town of Makariv is a small quiet picturesque place in the Kyiv Oblast. For a long time,…
How Russia justifies the murder of Ukrainians: Russia’s 2022 “genocide handbook” deconstructed
Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder called the Russian infamous declaration “What Russia should do to Ukraine” published on 3 April 2022 a “genocide handbook”. The text justifies the Russian murder of Ukrainians and the destruction of the Ukrainian nation, testifying an intent to destroy a specific group, which falls under the legal definition of genocide.
Bucha massacre: Ukraine urges ICC to gather evidence of Russian war crimes
Under the threat of encirclement, Russian troops retreated from devastated suburbs of capital Kyiv. The town of Bucha…