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On January 31, more than two hundred soldiers and civilians were returned from Russian captivity.

Oksana is a teacher of Russian language and literature. When Mariupol was shelled, she felt as if her heart was turning into a small bird. It was painful to look at the blackened houses and the faces of the neighbors that faded from the war and seemed to have been erased.

The destruction in Mala Danylivka. From 1941 to 1943 the town, 20 kms from the Russian border, was occupied by the Germans. In February 2022, Mala Danylivka was almost occupied again, this time by invading Russian forces.

In December 1943 four men were sentenced to death in Kharkiv. They were found guilty of committing war crimes in the Kharkiv Region during the German occupation. Should parallels be drawn between contemporary investigations of war crimes and those hearings?

Patrick Loveless came to Bucha immediately after its release: he helped to sort the corpses in the Bucha morgue and saw and felt the consequences of what the Russians did. What he saw shocked him so much that he could not forget about it.

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) has made a Submission on the transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court. Why do we need to prove that Russia’s actions constitute an Act of Genocide? Will it help those children return?

Russia continues to destroy rare species and threatens all living things. More about the consequences of the Russian invasion on the Ukrainian environment can be seen in our material.

The article analyzes information the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group collected on using civilians and civilian objects as cover during military operations.

We spoke with Olha Leus from Mariupol at the YaMariupol center in Lviv, where the Kharkiv human rights group came to help Mariupol residents who live in Lviv after leaving their hometown.

Leonid Remyha was in charge of one of the hospitals in Kherson at the beginning of the Russian invasion. The head physician ended up in a Russian torture chamber for refusing to cooperate with the invaders.

The destruction of the Kakhovka HPP, which took place on June 6, 2023, reminded the whole world that in its brutality, Russian aggression against Ukraine is comparable with the events of World War II.

The article focuses on international crimes committed by Russians since the onset of the full-scale military aggression.

On May 26, 2023 in Ljubljana, 80 states, including Ukraine, approved the text of the Ljubljana-The Hague MLA Convention on International Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Other International Crimes.

Since Russia annexed Crimea in February-March 2014, and its supporters seized large parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, a great many war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed there.

Rostyslav Pashynskyi and his fellow traveler were captured when they tried to evacuate from Bucha alone. They were beaten and threatened to cut off their ears and fingers. The Russians simulated shooting his fellow traveler, forcing him to admit he was a lookout. Our report shows how much terror two civilians had to endure and how this story ended.

More information about Russia’s cyber-attacks on Ukraine’s media and its abduction of Ukrainian journalists and media workers follows.

The “irrefutable proof” against the young woman includes a “confession” almost certainly extracted through torture, her Ukrainian POW stepfather.

Lying 12 kms northwest of Kharkiv, the town of Derhachi was never occupied by the invading forces. From the first days of Russia’s full-scale war, however, the town was constantly shelled during the battle for Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.

Every day since the beginning of the war, a Ukrainian accordionist plays songs and publishes them on his channel to keep the spirits up. His work during the war became the basis of a new record-breaking album.

Once Again, Pros and Cons of Ratifying the Rome Statute.

Borshchova (403: 2001) is a small village, 15 kms north of Kharkiv. It was attacked during the very first hours of the Russian invasion last year.

Lyptsi village (pop. 4,500, 2021) is a village in the Kharkiv Region. It is located five kms from the border with Russia, and 34 kms from Kharkiv.

The Truth Hounds organisation, a T4P partner, has determined that the 47th missile brigade led by Colonel Bobyr was responsible for the 27 June attacks on Kramatorsk and the neighbouring village of Bilenke.

International experts and Ukrainian rights activists are working together, assembling evidence of the acts of genocide perpetrated by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.