Exactly 10 years ago, in the early hours of 11 February 2016, armed Russian enforcement officers burst into a number of homes in the Yalta region, taking four men prisoner – well-known Crimean Tatar ...

The updated strategy not only treats any opposition to Russian occupation as ‘extremist’, but also makes it clear that Russia is waging its war against Ukrainian history, culture and identity ...

Chilling déjà vu as Russia uses Crimean SMERSH to hunt down supporters of Ukraine in occupied Crimea ‘Crimean SMERSH’, a repugnant Telegram channel involved in the hunting down of people who express ...

2.3. Information on the disappearance of civilians During three years of the full-scale war, the KHPG recorded 1,861 incidents related to the disappearance of civilians in the territory of the Kharkiv ...

Moscow revives Stalin’s SMERSH to hunt down resistance in occupied Ukraine Moves appear to be underway in Russia to formally reinstate the notorious Stalin-era SMERSH ‘counterintelligence’ units, with ...

The Russian-controlled militants who savagely tortured and gang raped Natalia Vlasova, and threatened to send a bomb to kill her small daughter, were not content until she screamed ‘loud enough’ ...

A Russian tweet demanding the ‘humiliating death’ of Azov defenders raises suspicions over the killing of 53 Ukrainian POWs at Olenivka, shortly after Russian propagandists showed a Ukrainian prisoner ...

Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine The current regime in Russia has reached new depths with the five-year sentence passed against ...

Russia sentences Crimean Jehovah’s Witness to six years 'for reading religious texts' Victor Ursu has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment with the Russian occupation regime treating the ...

Over 1200 religious organizations closed or driven out of Russian-occupied Crimea The Russian occupation regime in Crimea have closed an Islamic school in the Simferopol raion, claiming this to have ...

The blitzkrieg nature of the ‘trials’ of Victoria Strilets and her daughter Oleksandra, as well as of Oleksandr Osadchy, are typical of all such ‘trials’ where convictions and long sentences are ...

Russia resettles ‘veterans’ and their families in occupied Ukraine, while deporting Ukrainians Having failed to convince Ukrainians that the Russian invaders are ‘liberators’, Russia is increasingly ...