Quasi-legal system
21-year-old Artem Kudzhanov is set to be tried in the occupied Luhansk region on charges of allegedly spying for Ukraine, according to a statement released by the occupation prosecutor’s office on March 7.
12 March 2025
Anastasiia Baiova, who worked at the Shchastya District State Administration, and Nataliia Dzhus, who served as a dormitory supervisor at a college in Novoaidar, were sentenced by an occupation court in Luhansk to 19 and 20 years in prison, respectively.
11 March 2025
The head of the Kherson Track Division No. 15 of the Odesa Railway was accused of sabotage. He will spend the first year in prison and the remaining 5.5 years in a strict regime colony.
4 July 2024
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced four Ukrainians accused of attempting to assassinate the so-called head of the ‘DNR,’ Oleksandr Zakharchenko, and the murder of the commander of a pro-Russian separatist battalion, Arsen Pavlov, known by his call sign ‘Motorola.’
19 June 2024
Mykhailivka is a town near Zaporizhzhia. The Russians occupied it in the first days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As in other captured settlements, they began to illegally search homes and abduct civilians: some were later returned home, while others have still remained hostages of the Russians.
21 March 2024
The Russians occupied Melitopol in the first days of the full-scale invasion. They immediately seized the administrative buildings and started dispersing pro-Ukrainian protests with weapons, abducting local residents and holding them hostage. Kostiantyn Zinovkin, who stayed in Melitopol to care for his mother and grandmother, was not spared either.
12 February 2024
On May 24, 2023, Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov, both born in 2006, in the temporarily occupied city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region, were charged by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with accusations of allegedly planning sabotage on the railway. The indictment was preceded by several months of bullying, detention, and torture.
25 May 2023
On March 10, the official website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation published information about the "conviction" of three Ukrainian prisoners of war. The Coalition emphasizes that violating the right of prisoners of war to a fair trial is a war crime.
10 March 2023
On March 10, 2022, it became known that Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian journalist, human rights activist, and military, was “sentenced” in occupied Luhansk to 13 years of the colony with a strict regime. Viktor Pokhozey and Vladyslav Shel have received sentences of 8.5 and 18.5 years of colony accordingly.
10 March 2023
On December 22, the Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR) presented an analytical report titled Quasi-legal System […]
26 December 2022