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On 28 August the T4P Initiative submitted a long and detailed report to the International Criminal Court about the acts of genocide perpetrated by Russia in and around Mariupol. We talk to KHPG expert Mikhailo Romanov about the prospects for this report.

Nataliia Frolova has two native cities: Berdiansk, where she was born and raised her daughter, and Kharkiv, where she had moved a few years before the full-scale war. Both cities suffered at the hands of the enemy.

On 28 August, the human rights initiative T4P launched its submission to the International Criminal Court, detailing the acts of genocide committed by Russia in and around the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

On August 22, the T4P Initiative presented a document to the International Criminal Court regarding attacks on Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops.

Liudmyla Lomeiko, a resident of Moshun (village in Kyiv Region), used to transmit the coordinates of the enemy to her son, who is serving now in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the first days of the full-scale war. She prayed for the trees she had planted with her own hands to resist.

On June 8, 2023, it was reported that 11 Ukrainian POWs of Transcarpathian origin were handed to Hungary with the assistance of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On the Russian military looting in the Kharkiv Region.

Nobody knows the number of men forcibly mobilized from occupied Donbas and killed as Russia’s cannon fodder for its war of aggression against Ukraine.

A resident from Kherson tells how the city lived during the first days of the Russian occupation.

Tsyrkuny is a village near Kharkiv, which the Russians occupied on the first day of the war. Tsyrkuny was a launch pad for the shelling of Kharkiv.

Since mid-2022, KHPG researchers have been taking photos, from the ground and from drones, of the damage and destruction wreaked by the war throughout the Kharkiv Region. The following photos illustrate what remained of Izium after it was liberated.

A special approach is needed when working with those who have suffered sexual violence linked to the present conflict. It is of great importance to gather testimony and establish patterns of behaviour. As of early May 2023, 182 incidents of this kind had been fully documented.

Thousands of civilians have died or been wounded by Russian shelling and bombing since the full-scale invasion in late February 2022. Many others have disappeared. The worst affected are the areas bordering Russia.

Pensioner Mykola Perepelytsia lives in Krasnopillia (Donetsk Region). His village has been subjected to numerous airstrikes. He says: “An aircraft came every morning, smashing houses and tearing down roofs”.

How do you explain to children that the Russians who invaded your home are holding your mother prisoner and calling her a “terrorist”?

The shelling of sites within Ukraine accounts for 84% of the war crimes committed by Russian forces. The T4P project has documented more than 30,000 such attacks on civilian sites since 24 February 2022.

An architect and artist Halyna Bulhakova left everything in Kharkiv: an apartment, paintings — ready for the exhibition, half-ruined Saltivka houses, which she once designed. The artist came to Lviv only with her grandson.

Mykyta Shkriabin, a third-year law university student, has not been seen since he was seized by Russian soldiers in Kharkiv region on 29 March 2022.

Documenters from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group are filming the destroyed Kharkiv region using cameras from the ground and on drones. In this collection are photos of Ruski Tyshky after de-occupation.

Kamianka is a village in the Kharkiv Region located 10 kilometers from Izium. With the first days of a full-scale war, it was in the zone of fierce fighting.

On 26 June 1987, the UN Convention Against Torture (and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment) came into effect. At present, 173 States, including Ukraine and Russia, have signed and ratified the Convention.

Blackened houses, broken windows, deserted streets. The impression that time stood still. No, this is not Chornobyl. This is Northern Saltivka, a large residential area in Kharkiv, in the summer of 2022.

A resident of Borodianka, Valentyna Torhonska, was hiding with other people in the basement when a shell exploded near her house. In her declining years, she is homeless and doesn’t know how to continue her life.

Olena’s mother died in Izium from anorexia. She could not leave the occupied territory despite numerous evacuation attempts. The lack of treatment and the indifferent attitude of the invaders and collaborators killed an aged woman.