Olga Molchanova, a computer science and mathematics teacher from Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, faces a potential sentence of 5 to 10 years imprisonment, with a further 10 to 15-year ban from
In early March 2022, when the village of Syniak in Kyiv Oblast was occupied by Russian troops, the 70-year-old head of the village council, Pavel Eryga, abandoned the community and
On May 16, 2022, around nine in the morning, in the village of Shtepovka, Sumy District, Sumy Oblast, pensioner Lyudmila Vazhinskaya was deemed by the court to have “committed a
On March 22, 2022, Olga Galanina, a former deputy of the Primorsky City Council for the Opposition Platform – For Life party and deputy head of the Berdiansk administration for
On April 29, 2022, in the town of Seredino-Buda, Shostka Raion, Sumy Oblast, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained the head of the local territorial community, Alexander Gen, charging
On February 24, 2022, a resident of Cherkasy, Tatiana Drobot, liked a post on the social network Odnoklassniki (Classmates) about the raising of the Russian flag over the city of
Seventy-six-year-old Nikolai Evtushenko, a resident of the village of Andreevka in the Bucha district of Kyiv Oblast, was arrested in late April 2022 on suspicion of collaborationism. On April 8,
In late March 2024, Yaroslav Zabashta, a small business owner from Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. According to SBU media reports, he “after the capture
Oleg Kalayda, 50, a former Ukrainian police officer, was described by Ukrainian media outlets linked to the SBU as having “greeted the occupiers with bread in Balakliia,” earning him the
Our goal is to bring the truth to the global community about the fate of thousands of people who are currently held—either in official Ukrainian detention facilities or in illegal places of confinement—due to their views and opinions, their efforts to sustain life in Russian-occupied territories under international humanitarian law, or as a result of provocative actions by Ukrainian security services.
