Yuliia Abibok

The Russian military prosecutor’s office claims that Spanish volunteer Mariano Garcia Calatayud left Crimea for the Kherson region. Before that, he had been held for over a year in a detention center in Simferopol after being abducted in Kherson. The current whereabouts of the 77-year-old man, who suffered a heart attack while in captivity, remain unknown, and his relatives continue to search for him.

13 June 2025

Confession in front of the camera, as if during interrogation: in Crimea, 65-year-old Yevhen Nenko from the Luhansk region was publicly forced to “repent” for pro-Ukrainian graffiti. The man is just one example among dozens of Ukrainian civilians the Russian Federation detained or convicted in May under fabricated charges of espionage, extremism, or assisting the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The scale of political repression is growing, and the human stories are becoming increasingly harrowing.

10 June 2025