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Russia is attempting to break the spirit of captured Ukrainians and force them to obtain Russian citizenship. They are offered good jobs, new housing, and promises to bring their families from Ukraine. Those who refuse exchange and accept Russian citizenship are recruited into the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Battalion to fight against Ukraine.
6 March 2025
Ukrainian pilots Oleksandr Morozov and Dmytro Shymanskyi have been sentenced in Moscow to 22 and 26 years of imprisonment. The Russians convicted them as terrorists, even though they are, in fact, servicemen of the Ukrainian army. However, unlike Shymanskyi, Morozov is not recognized as a prisoner of war even in Ukraine.
5 March 2025
Eduard Shevchenko, a former commander of the 73rd Naval Special Operations Center and a former official of the Ochakiv City Council, is now on trial in Mykolaiv. According to the investigation, Shevchenko, who had fought in intense battles while serving in the ATO zone, betrayed his oath and began working for the Russians after their full-scale invasion. Allegedly, under their orders he attempted to recruit the mayor of Ochakiv and reported on the aftermath of shelling.
4 March 2025
The case of Bohdan Kovalchuk stands apart from the stories of other Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia in […]
4 March 2025
One of Russia’s tactics in its war against Ukraine is the use of double-tap strikes, which means hitting a target and then attacking it again shortly afterward. Between February 2022 and August 31, 2024, researchers from non-governmental organization Truth Hounds counted up to 36 such attacks across Ukrainian regions, including Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Vinnytsia, and Khmelnytskyi.
3 March 2025
60% of former detainees in Russian detention centers (SIZOs) interviewed by the Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR) reported that they were forced to learn the Russian national anthem, as well as songs and poems glorifying Russia.
27 February 2025