Three Ukrainian sailors return to Odesa after 14-month in Yemeni Houthis’ captivity
Ukrainian officials confirmed the successful operation with Omani support to free three sailors held in Yemen since 2023.
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“F*cking execute her!” Torture, forced labor, one bottle of water a day: how a Ukrainian woman hostage survived the prisons of Russia-occupied Donbas
“F*cking execute her!” On 19 March 2018, Maryna Chuikova was detained at the Maiorsk checkpoint when going from…
West must boycott FIFA World Cup or face an even more dangerous Putin afterwards
If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to…
Putin outdoes Potemkin for World Cup
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip…
Torture and humiliation: freed Ukrainians talk about Donbas captivity
Ivan Tyrenko is a released hostage who is undergoing rehabilitation at Kyiv’s the Feofaniya Clinical Hospital. He says…
Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine: an exchange pool for Ukrainian hostages | #LetMyPeopleGo
On 30 June 2017, a powerboat bearing Russian identification marks was intercepted by Ukrainian military when approaching the…
Liudmyla Hlondar: My brother, hostage in “DNR” for 2 years, says only hope is prayer
What was said at the meetings? Were any concrete decisions made? We’ve been fighting long and hard…
Learn Russian by sending a postcard to the Ukrainian hostages of the Kremlin
At least 36 Ukrainians are jailed in Russia and occupied Crimea on politically motivated grounds, according to the…
Expert community outraged over new FSB arrests in Crimea
The letter, signed by over 100 experts from 11 countries, says that the three detained were permanent residents of…
Ukrainians ask British PM to punish Graham Phillips for tormenting a mutilated PoW
Mocking an armless PoW “Who brainwashed you? You speak like a brainwashed zombie… Who needs you now, with…
Ukrainian political prisoner Yuriy Ilchenko escapes from Russian-occupied Crimea
When one summer morning Sophia came to work, she saw a lean man at her office door. For…
Gennadii Afanasyev: Klykh is in very serious condition
Why is there so little information about Sentsov and Kolchenko? – …because they’re very brave and don’t want…
Oleksandr the Good Shepherd
Fifteen years ago, more than a hundred people lived in Desyatyny, Zhytomyr Oblast. Today, this rural community counts…
Kremlin-backed militants demand amnesty, put hostage without arms or eyesight on trial
Heavily injured Ukrainian Volodymyr Zhemchugov has spent over 8 months as a hostage of the self-proclaimed “Luhansk People’s…
The 27 other Savchenkos must not be forgotten!
The gross miscarriage of justice in the case of Nadiya Savchenko has sparked outrage among people of good…
Ukrainian political prisoner writes moving letter from Chechnya
Mykola Karpiuk was arrested in Russia in March 2014, when he served as deputy leader in Right Sector…
There can be no delay in implementing Minsk clause to release hostages
According to official reports, 130 people remain imprisoned in the occupied territories of Donbas. Among them are both…
#LetMyPeopleGo: free Ukrainian political hostages illegally jailed in Russia
Over 10 Ukrainian citizens are political prisoners in Russia, facing up to 20 years of jail over trumped-up charges,…
No progress on release of hostages — Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said there is no progress on the release of all hostages by Russian forces,…
Polish film academy calls to release Ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned for opposing Crimean annexation
The Polish Film Academy has called to release Oleg Sentsov, the Ukrainian filmmaker who is being held in detention in…