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They abducted the woman, fired a gun next to her ear, and beat her until she lost consciousness. Her tormentors have been named: a Russian citizen and someone from Luhansk are suspected of violating the laws and customs of war.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) has been documenting the war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide committed by its forces on Ukrainian territory, especially in the Kharkiv Region.

As noted by the Kharkiv Region Prosecutor’s Office, more than twenty of the exhumed bodies suffered broken bones, 15 bore gunshot wounds and at least 15 showed signs of torture.

Continuation of the discussion on the nature of genocide.

Under international humanitarian law the International Committee of the Red Cross should play a key role in defending the rights of prisoners of war and captive civilians. The present Russo-Ukrainian war has shown that it is not meeting certain of its obligations. As a result, thousands have suffered.