Russian war crimes Archives - Page 2 of 24

Emergency workers in blue uniforms search through debris and rubble of severely damaged multi-story residential buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, with destroyed walls and broken windows, smoke visible in background

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia claims it only targets “military objects” in Ukraine. But recent Russian strike killed toddler born during war and her mom

Moscow's assertion of targeting exclusively military and defense industry facilities in Ukraine contrasts with the death of civilians spanning ages from toddlers to elderly residents.

byVira Kravchuk

Ukrainian soldier Vladyslav sits in his wheelchair at the hospital, communicating through written notes after Russian forces cut his throat during torture and left him in a pit with corpses of other killed Ukrainian fighters, thinking he was dead. The 33-year-old National Guard soldier survived and crawled for five days to safety.

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Russian War Crimes

Russians captured him, cut his throat, and left Ukrainian POW to die. He survived and wants revenge for tortured comrades

National Guard soldier Vladyslav was dragged into a basement near Pokrovsk and watched how the Russians tortured seven Ukrainian defenders before they slashed his own throat and dumped him in a pit with their bodies, thinking he was dead. He was not.

byVira Kravchuk

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Russian War Crimes

Ukrainian journalist abducted from his garden in 2022 returns from Russian captivity weighing less than 45 kg

Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk returned from Russian captivity in the latest exchange on 24 August, weighing less than 45 kg (99 lbs), as he spent three years in Russian prison after his abduction near Kyiv in 2022.

byVira Kravchuk

Russian attack on Okhtyrka in Sumy Oblast damaged private residences and an apartment building, injuring 14 people.

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian civilians pay price as Russian attacks continue despite Trump’s peace attempts

Fourteen civilians required medical treatment in northeastern Sumy Oblast after overnight strikes hit residential areas.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia kills family with five drones in Ukrainian region, which is under Washington’s negotiation agenda

Moscow's coordinated drone assault on sleeping civilians tests whether targeted family killings can influence the peace talks in Washington.

byOlena Mukhina

144 russian prison guards exposed torturing ukrainian pows—investigation reveals daily routine cruelty family life three identified wardens — denis mirchev vitali sterzhanov alexei glaizer involved prisoners cover molfar intelligence institute's

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Russian Aggression

144 Russian prison guards exposed for torturing Ukrainian POWs—investigation reveals daily routine of cruelty and family life

The Molfar Intelligence Institute, a Ukrainian NGO, traced how guards commit war crimes and then return to allegedly normal homes.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian prosecutors gathered evidence showing Russian forces transported children from a special school in then-occupied Novopetrivka village through occupied Crimea to Russia's Anapa Oblast, where they faced daily ideological pressure including forced anthem singing and Ukrainian language bans.

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian war crimes: Ukraine has evidence occupiers forcibly deported 15 children from special school to Russia

Children were forbidden to speak Ukrainian or display Ukrainian symbols while being forced to participate in pro-Russian events and sing Russian anthem.

byVira Kravchuk

A Ukrainian ambulance that was struck by a Russian drone in Kherson Oblast on 13 August.

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Russian terror continues: drones hit civilian cars, then ambulance

Three people died in two different locations.

byVira Kravchuk

Russian-abducted Ukrainian children/open source

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia opens “slave market” of stolen Ukrainian children — users can choose them by color of eyes

Since 2014, nearly 20,000 children have been taken from occupied territories, and now Moscow is cataloging them online like items in a store.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Partisans: Russia’s 247th Air Assault Regiment crumbles amid desertions in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Desperation grows as Russia treats locals like expendable pawns.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

“They broke all 10 rules”: Ukraine calls to eject Russia from OSCE

Moscow blocks European security watchdog's operations to hide atrocities.

byOlena Mukhina

Three people in Kharkiv sustained injuries from drone debris in residential areas after the Russian overnight drone attack on 30 July.

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian daily terror of civilians in Ukraine continues: five injured and extensive damage

Three people were injured in Kharkiv as the drone debris landed on residential areas.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia uses thirst as tool of genocide against civilians in occupied Donetsk, says expert

Civilians survive up to 72 hours without water as Russian forces build military hubs atop the ruins of Ukrainian infrastructure.

byOlena Mukhina

Radio Free Europe investigators traced the identity of a Russian prison doctor whom Ukrainian POWs universally described as their worst torturer to Ilya Sorokin, a married father who earned recognition as "best paramedic" while denying medical care to dying prisoners.

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Russian War Crimes

Russian “Doctor Evil” posts about loving family and medical pride online, while he degrades and tortures Ukrainian POWs in reality

Investigators identified a Russian doctor who shocked Ukrainian prisoners of war with stun guns, forced them to bark like dogs and crawl on floors, made them recite degrading slurs, and denied them medical care.

byVira Kravchuk

Russian drones hit residential buildings in Sumy Oblast, igniting fire and killing one civilian.

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian follow up strikes delay Ukrainian rescuers who rush to put out fire after deadly drone attack

A 78-year-old woman died in Sumy Oblast near the front line and multiple families sustained injuries from direct strikes on residential buildings.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Zelenskyy honors Ukrainian teenagers who recorded farewell video before being executed by Russians in Berdiansk

“This is death. Guys, goodbye."

byOlena Mukhina

russia's “human safari” drone smashes rabbi’s vehicle — family car survives direct hit wrecked suv kherson’s chief rabbi itzhak wolff after russian strike toyota-kherson-rabbi amid human safari attack kherson's yossef

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s “human safari” drone smashes into rabbi’s vehicle — family in car survives direct hit

A Russian FPV attack failed to kill its target, as Kherson's Jewish leader escapes harm.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian attack on Polish factory in Ukraine regarded as possible message to Warsaw after Kyiv’s aid meeting in Lublin

The strike injured workers and halted production.

byOlena Mukhina

Mobile units collect and analyze samples of Russian-used chemical weapons along the entire frontline. Left: a Russian RG-Vo hand grenade tests positive for toxic agents. Right: Ukrainian specialist in full protective gear examines a recovered sample. Photo: Command of the Support Forces of Ukraine, via Ukrainska Pravda.

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia’s chemical attacks in Ukraine top 10,000, Kyiv reports

Kyiv's top chemical defense official confirms that toxic attacks began as early as 2014.

byYuri Zoria

another war crime russia’s drones kill injure civilians dnipro fire after russian drone strike serhii lysak telegram last night killed civilian injured five others round daily long-range attacks against ukrainian

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Another war crime: Russia’s drones kill, injure civilians in Dnipro

Russia's Iranian-designed Shahed UAV strikes left one dead and five wounded, three critically, in a clear attack on civilians. Moscow conducts such attacks every day.

byYuri Zoria