Ukraine reveals name of main torturer of journalist Roshchyna, who was killed in Russian detention center
Alexander Shtuda, the Russian detention chief, is now charged with overseeing the savage abuse that led to Victoria Roshchyna’s death.
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“Moscow mechanism” will now investigate Russia’s killings of Ukrainian POWs at request of 41 nations
Over 90% of returned Ukrainian prisoners report systematic beatings and torture.
“He said we deserve genocide”: Journalists unmask Russian “Dr. Evil” torturer of Ukrainian POWs
A stunning investigation by Radio Free Europe identifies Illia Sorokin, a Russian prison medic who brutalized captured Ukrainian soldiers with electric shocks, rubber batons, and degrading humiliation.
ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for crimes against women after Russia becomes only country in world to recognize their regime
In 2023, the ICC also charged Russian President Vladimir Putin with war crimes related to the forced deportation of Ukrainian children.
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.
Ukrainian volunteers help family escape Russian occupation in Kherson Oblast
Ukrainian volunteers helped evacuating a family from occupied part of Kherson Oblast.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…