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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.

The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group documented numerous attacks on educational institutions in the Kharkiv Region. Their destruction can significantly affect the development of the region.

The facts are that Russia’s actions in Ukraine are recognized as genocide by many governments, and the ICC recognized Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children as genocide and issued an arrest warrant for the Russian president. What does this mean, and why are these facts important?

After the invasion began, Viktor Marynchak continued to serve in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, although he blessed everyone who decided to leave Kharkiv to evacuate. Military funerals are often held in the church now, forcing Father Viktor to ask himself difficult questions.

August 30 is the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. We talk to Tamila Bespala, the head of the KHPG Kharkiv reception office, about how to correspond with the Russian Federation's Investigative Committee and search for disappeared Ukrainians in Russian telegram channels.

The village Tyshky appeared on the bank of the Kharkiv River in the 1650s. Later it divided in two, called Cherkaski and Ruski Tyshky. Both suffered substantial damage last year.

A resident of the devastated town describes the first weeks of the war.

In 2022, Russia launched its largest disinformation campaign about chemical and biological weapons, with its origins in Soviet newspaper propaganda.

Russians kidnapped the former Ukrainian Navy officer in Henichesk, Kherson Region. They tortured the man and forced him to incriminate himself. Human rights activists are convinced that Kyselov’s case has all the signs of an enforced disappearance.

On 14 September 2023 Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andrii Kostin and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan announced that an ICC field office had opened in Kyiv.

Denys Nozhaiskyi has relatives in Mariupol. He was in Kyiv when the war began, but fate brought him later to Bucha during the days of the heaviest shelling. The man says that now he has only one wish: to go to the war and take revenge on the enemy.

Speech on the International conference in Prague devoted to to Vaclav Gavel Prize on 10 October 2023.

Oskil, a village in the suburbs of Izium, is one of the oldest settlements in the Kharkiv Region. It existed in the early seventeenth century under the name Tsareborysov.

Teacher Alina Veshchuk lived in Horlivka (Donetsk Region) until 2015. Then she fled the occupation to Kramatorsk. In 2022, history repeated itself again... She says that back in 2014 she already understood how the enemy was fighting: “Friends saw “Grad” (multiple rocket launcher) drove into the field, shoot at Toretsk, where the Ukrainian army was, then this “Grad” turned around and shot then back at Horlivka: the enemy wanted people in Horlivka to think that it was Ukrainian army shot back at them”.

Information about extrajudicial executions of Ukrainians by the Russian military and Russian torture chambers in the occupied part of the Kharkiv Region will be sent to The Hague. In the new submissions to the ICC, human rights activists have argued that Russia’s actions constitute crimes against humanity.