atrocities Archives - Euromaidan Press

torture chamber Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast

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Russian War Crimes

“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

The cover of the book called "Istoriomor, or The Drilling into the Brain of Memory: Battles for the Truth about the GULAG, Deportations, the War and the Holocaust" by geographer and historian Pavel Polyan. “'Istoriomor' is a necessary “neologism and metaphor” to cover “the triumph of politicized mythology and anti-historicism over what is really history and memory.” It involves making certain themes and sources taboo, falsifying and mythologizing events, and both denial of the obvious and relativism about anything negative.

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Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations

A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…

byPaul A. Goble

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17 bodies found in Luhansk, victims of militant “Bryanka USSR” battalion

Earlier we published a translation of an interview about atrocities committed by an armed unit inside militant-occupied Luhansk…

byPaula Chertok

Russian terrorist attack at the bus stop in Donetsk, Ukraine

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War in Donbas

Confirmed: Terrorist attack at bus stop in Donetsk staged by three Russian citizens

Ukrainian intelligence cross-checked and confirmed the information that three Russian citizens arrested by the militants of “DNR” on…

byObozrevatel

6 minute read

Protestants persecuted in rebel-held Luhansk

LVIV, Ukraine — Protestants and pro-Ukraine residents in the war-torn areas of eastern Ukraine are being persecuted by…

byBrad Bird

3 minute read

War in Donbas

Crimes of pro-Russian militants against civilians in Donbas: kidnapping, looting and executions

Over 300 instances of violence against civilian residence of the conflict zone in Donbas were documented during a…

byRadio Liberty

5 minute read

Featured

Five eerie similarities between “pro-Russian rebels” in East Ukraine and ISIS

In 2014, the West was faced with several major international crises, the most notable of which are the…

byKirill Mikhailov

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Terrorists in Donbas using SS methods — SBU

Terrorists in the Donbas are capturing and torturing people in order to frighten Ukrainians and seize Ukrainian territory,…

bySegodnya

2 minute read

“Map of Death”: Concentration camps and mass graves of Ukrainian civilians and military

The Security Service of Ukraine began the process of identifying locations of concentration camps and mass graves created…

byUkrayinska Pravda

4 minute read

War in Donbas

Donetsk actor, victim of DNR killers sent for treatment to Latvia

23-year-old Artem Tchaikovksy, a puppet actor and native of Donetsk, is undergoing treatment in Latvia within the framework…

byRadio Liberty

6 minute read

Archive

Sadism at Savur-Mohyla: Why Ukrainian fighters would rather die than be taken captive

“I won’t let the separatists take me alive. I’ve made up my mind: I’d rather be blown to…

byVarious internet sources

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War in Donbas

Former POW: “Even demons in hell are kinder than DNR fighters…”

LB.ua located one of the Ukrainian servicemen who was brought to the prisoners’ “parade” in Donetsk on Independence…

byUkrainian media sources

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War in Donbas

Video: Captured terrorist tells of rapes, murders, racketeering at Sloviansk checkpoint

Forces of the Ukrainian Army interrogate a captured separatist that discloses shocking details of the Kremlin-backed militants’ treatment…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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War in Donbas

Four evangelical Christians executed by pro-Russian terrorists for ‘sectarianism and treason’

Churchmen were tortured and murdered the day after they were captured. Four members of the Transfiguration Evangelical church murdered by…

byUkrainian media sources

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More of the old ultraviolence – captured traitor’s confession adds to growing list of atrocities

While many tales of atrocities have come to surface over the past few months, most have been defined…

byMat Babiak

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Interior Ministry: Pro-Russian terrorists murdered, mutilated two Sloviansk priests & their sons

Security officials have exhumed a mass grave in the Donetsk region where they say a pile of mutilated bodies…

byMat Babiak

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Interior Ministry: Pro-Russian terrorists murdered, mutilated two Sloviansk priests & their sons

Security officials have exhumed a mass grave in the Donetsk region where they say a pile of mutilated bodies…

byEuromaidan Press Staff