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Throughout 2022, Russian forces sought to establish their own governing structures in the occupied areas of the Kherson region. Central to this effort was the creation of a repressive apparatus staffed by local collaborators. They were supposed to operate under the supervision of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which reinforced its presence with traitors including former Ukrainian officials from Crimea, the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk, and “Berkut” riot police officers who fled Ukraine after the Maidan protests.
31 March 2025
On March 31, the Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform presented a research paper on Russia’s policy of prosecution of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war, which has clear signs of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
31 March 2025
An exhibition titled Civilians in Captivity: Stories of Unjust Detentions has opened in the capital of Hungary. Organized by the Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR) in partnership with the State Self-Government of Ukrainians in Hungary (SSUUH), the exhibition sheds light on one of the least known humanitarian crises of Russia’s war against Ukraine — enforced disappearances and the unlawful detention of Ukrainian civilians from occupied territories.
28 March 2025
Call Me Maks is the first release for The Stronger We Become – a campaign for the release of the thousands of Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians in Russian captivity.
28 March 2025
The Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don has handed down sentences to 24 current and former members of the Azov Brigade. They were sentenced to between 13 and 23 years of imprisonment, all to be served in maximum-security penal colonies. Eleven were tried in absentia, and one died in a pre-trial detention center.
26 March 2025
In Strasbourg, the members of the Coalition of States held a final meeting to finalize the technical work on the draft documents necessary to establish a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
25 March 2025