Crimes against humanity Archives

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Russo-Ukrainian War, day 965: Ukraine destroys over 10,000 Russian artillery systems in 2024

Ukraine's military has reported the destruction of more than 10,000 Russian artillery systems since the beginning of 2024, with losses estimated at $8 billion.

byEuromaidan Press Staff

russian occupiers remove ukrainian from school curriculum zaporizhzhia oblast

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian volunteers help family escape Russian occupation in Kherson Oblast

Ukrainian volunteers helped evacuating a family from occupied part of Kherson Oblast.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Torture and abuse: Grim reality for civilians in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine

An annual human rights report by the US Department of State exposes Russia’s strategy of violence used by its troops against civilians in the war in Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

Putin lies. Crowd of protesters against Putin regime

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Russia has no credibility. So stop reporting what it claims in Olenivka

ft “Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of purported strike on prison.” “Russia and Ukraine trade blame over…

byHans Petter Midttun

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

Ukraine has documented more than 11,600 war crimes by Russian forces

Putin’s war in Ukraine is different from past conflicts in many ways, ranging from the kind of weapons…

byPaul A. Goble

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Hundreds of victims of war criminals in Russian-occupied Donbas await justice. Here is what can help them

What is universal jurisdiction? To begin with, states have jurisdiction to investigate crimes committed on their territory, by…

byYuliia Rudenko

Top of the first page of the recently declassified KGB report dated January 26, 1946 and addressed to the then-head of the Communist Party in Ukraine Nikita Khrushchev titled "SPECIAL MESSAGE about the atrocities committed by servicemen of the 10th motorized-mechanized division commanded by Major-General PAVLOV to civilian inhabitants of the village Velykyi Zhytyn, Oleksandriyskyi, raion, Rivne oblast (Ukraine)."

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KGB archives document Red Army’s atrocities against Ukrainian village in USSR after 1945

Red Army soldiers raising the USSR flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945. Iconic…

byPaul A. Goble

Тіла пасажирів рейсового автобусу, які були вбиті внаслідок ракетного удару російських гібридних сил. Загинуло 12 (за іншими даними 13) людей, ще 18 були поранені. Донеччина, околиця міста Волновахи, 13 січня 2015 року

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International

International Criminal Court finally agrees to open case regarding war crimes in occupied Crimea and Donbas

In what Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called a “historic” decision, the International Criminal Court in The Hague…

byAlya Shandra

Ukrainian artist Dariya Marchenko created a portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin from 5,000 spent shell cases collected from location of battles in Russia's aggressive war in the Donbas. Photo: dashart.com.ua

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Hybrid War

Russia’s occupation of Ukraine: a historical and centuries-old process

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict reaches back to the times when Ukraine emerged on the world map. In fact, it…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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International

To help Belarus, recognize Tsikhanouskaya as the legitimate president-elect

The response of the international community to the state violence that we are currently witnessing in Belarus, will…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

This map shows Circassia and Georgia before the Russian conquest (Image: Johann Homann via Wikimedia)

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Historical falsification latest stage in Russia’s ethnocide of Circassians, Khakuasheva says

Moscow’s falsification of the history of the Circassians and its disavowal of the imperial nature of Russian policy…

byPaul A. Goble

Exile of the Circassian peoples into Turkey in 1864

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Marking Day of the Circassian Flag online – a national action the pandemic couldn’t stop

For Circassians, who have been deprived of a common territory and even a common ethnic name by Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukraine

Maidan massacre probe to face even more threats in 2020

On 22 January film director and ex-political prisoner Oleg Sentsov commented on the news that runaway president Viktor…

byOlena Makarenko

Damage from Soviet aerial bombardment of Helsinki, Finland, 1939-1940 (Photo: Finnish Army via Wikimedia Commons)

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When the League of Nations expelled the USSR for bombing Finland

Seventy-nine years ago, on December 14, 1939, the League of Nations expelled the Soviet Union from membership for…

byPaul A. Goble

Putinism – a greater threat to humanity than anything the West has faced before, Yakovenko says

Speaking to the Forum of Free Russia in Vilnius, Igor Yakovenko says that “over its many thousand years…

byPaul A. Goble

Deportation of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan in October 1947 code-named Operation West

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Stalin deported 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan in October 1947

Seventy-one years ago this week, Stalin deported tens of thousands of Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan, an action…

byPaul A. Goble

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US denounced for suggesting Soviets committed genocide against their own people

Russian officials and pro-Kremlin commentators have reacted angrily to the decision of the US Senate to pass a…

byPaul A. Goble

Ruins of the "Ginzburg Skyscraper" destroyed by Soviet remotely-controlled explosives after the city of Kyiv was occupied by the German troops in 1941.

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History of Ukraine

How Soviet troops destroyed downtown Kyiv and killed Kyivans in 1941

This 1941 photo documents a pile of ruins in the very center of Kyiv, which is now Maidan…

byCensor.net

Total direct famine losses of population in Ukraine in 1933 (Image: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)

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Stalin’s terror famine killed Ukrainians at twice the rate of other nationalities, HURI study says

A newly released study by scholars at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is attracting enormous attention in…

byPaul A. Goble

Ingermanlanders / Ingrian Finns (Image: Pauly, Gustav Theodor. Description ethnographique des peuples. Saint Petersbourg: Bellizard, 1862 via Wikimedia)

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Moscow still refuses to recognize Soviet genocide of Ingermanlanders

Most of the peoples whom Stalin deported have been allowed to return to their home areas and have…

byPaul A. Goble