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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.

Olena Hrybanova, a psychiatrist working in Ukraine, identifies three reasons for the systematic sadism of Russian soldiers and explains why their Ukrainian victims often do not receive the treatment they need.

Speech of chairman of the International ‘Memorial’ Society in Oslo on August 31, 2023 at the Nobel Peace Conference: Human Rights Heroes.

On 1 July 2022, Ukraine’s parliament (Verkhovna Rada) created a temporary specialised commission to deal with issues of international humanitarian and criminal law arising from Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Russia is violating the basic principles that defend children in wartime. Not only have the occupying forces taken no measures to return Ukrainian children to their families: they are deporting little Ukrainians to Russia and making them part of Russian society.