Maria Klymyk
She studied at Lviv Polytechnic National University. She used to work in the field of advertising, was engaged in copywriting.
In April 2022, she joined the MIHR team. She collects and documents information about war crimes committed by the Russian Federation in Ukraine, forms databases of MIHR.
In her spare time, she studies the art of photography and builds her own library, reading everything she can get her hands on.
A random photo on social networks allowed Serhii Tarasiuk’s wife to find out the terrible truth about her husband who is kept in captivity. He has been held in inhumane conditions for over two years. The 58-year-old Azov Brigade soldier’s state of health is critical. According to the latest information, Serhii Tarasiuk is kept in Pretrial Detention Center No. 2 in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast.
18 October 2024
Serhii Mykhailenko is an Azov Brigade soldier. He left the Azovstal plant together with his fellow soldiers on May 20, 2022. They were judged for crimes they had not committed. The so-called Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced Mykhailenko to life imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony. The man was sent to Siberia to serve his illegal sentence.
11 October 2024
The Ukrainian Defense Forces have been assaulting a female correctional facility in Mala Loknia, Kursk region, where Ukrainian captives—women and men—have been confined for a long time. The seizure of the colony will be a crucial step for Ukraine in gathering evidence of the war crimes committed by Russia against Ukrainian prisoners of war.
23 August 2024
July 28, 2024 is the second anniversary of the mass murder of Ukrainian soldiers of the Azov Brigade held in captivity in Olenivka. Previously the MIHR established the chronology of this crime almost minute by minute. Now we are talking about the progress made in the investigation and the persons charged by the Prosecutor’s Office with the murder.
28 July 2024
On May 16, 2022, Azov fighter Serhii Alieksieievych laid down his weapon, removed his ammunition, and, along with a hundred fellow comrades-in-arms, left the Azovstal territory. In July 2022, an explosion occurred in the colony where the Mariupol garrison was held. Around fifty people were killed and more than a hundred injured—all of them Azov fighters. Serhii Alieksieievych survived but was wounded and remains in captivity.
26 July 2024
In the spring of 2022, two Ukrainian military boats, Sloviansk and Stanislav, sank in the Black Sea as a result of Russian missile strikes. Some of the sailors were rescued. However, what happened to 16 more remains unknown.
24 July 2024