Since he came to power in 1999, more than 20 Putin critics have been killed or died mysteriously.
Many other enemies of the Kremlin have survived #assassination attempts. The list and background at the link.
https://kyivindependent.com/navalnys-death-preceded-by-long-list-of-putin-critics-murders/
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Podolchak was kidnapped from his home two days earlier by Russian forces, representatives from Kalanchak's military administration told the Suspilne media outlet.
"Today, it was discovered that (the Russians) killed the brightest person I was lucky enough to meet in my life," the military administration wrote on Facebook.
According to Suspilne, Podolchak continued to hold services in the Ukrainian language under Russian occupation and refused to be transferred to work under the Moscow Patriarchate.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-forces-kill-ukrainian-priest-in-occupied-part-of-kherson-oblast/
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Alexei Navalny has just died in a Russian prison colony in the Arctic Circle. The fiercest opponent of Putin's regime has been poisoned, imprisoned and has now died.
We can’t remain silent: let's turn this atrocity into a worldwide cry of hope against #tyranny.
Sign this letter now in tribute to Alexei #Navalny.
https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/navalny_tribute_loc/
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Ukraine has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to participate in the upcoming #GlobalPeaceSummit in Switzerland aimed at building support for the Ukrainian peace formula, Deputy Presidential Office head Ihor Zhovkva told Reuters in an interview.
China and Russia have strengthened their economic and political ties amid a Western push to isolate Moscow following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. China has offered to mediate the conflict but has not condemned Russia's actions and repeatedly abstained from voting in UN resolutions on the war in Ukraine.
https://kyivindependent.com/official-ukraine-invites-china-to-participate-in-global-peace-summit/
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"We managed to establish that the video is definitely not edited and it is real. We understand where it was recorded and by whom," Ombudsman Lubinets said in a TV interview. "In advance, we even have an idea as to which of the servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces committed this crime."
The video in question surfaced on Dec. 14, and was republished by RFE/RL, depicting what appeared to be unarmed Ukrainian POWs being forced to walk at gunpoint toward Ukrainian lines. Journalists from RFE/RL said they managed to pinpoint the time and place of the incident but did not share it at the request of the Ukrainian military.
Lubinets had previously said that the practice may be systematic among Russian troops. There have been previous reports that Russian troops forced POWs to walk into minefields, he said.
https://kyivindependent.com/ombudsman-confirms-russia-used-ukrainian-pows-as-human-shields/
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Russian forces struck a third humanitarian aid center in #Kherson within five days, the head of the emergency response unit for the Ukrainian #RedCross in Kherson Oblast Mykola Taranenko said in a comment to Hromadske radio on Dec. 25.
Taranenko also referenced the overnight Russian strike on Dec. 20, which "completely destoryed" the humanitarian aid facility ran by the Ukrainian Red Cross in Kherson Oblast and its resources inside.
"They [Russian forces] targeted the storage facilities of other organizations twice, but very recently they hit our humanitarian aid facility, the Red Cross facility," said Taranenko.
https://kyivindependent.com/official-russia-destroyed-three-humanitarian-aid-bases-in-kherson/
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The regime’s problem might not be that it has no successor to Putin, but that there are many pretenders who would like his post – or at least to be members of a new collective leadership. Sooner or later, Russia’s succession problem will come to the fore and Putin’s subversion of Russia’s institutions, including the presidency itself, for the past 23 years will be recognized as a liability.
https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-how-russias-succession-problem-makes-her-future-uncertain/
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Russia's suspected violations in Ukraine include 142 summary executions of Ukrainian civilians in occupied territories by Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Dec. 19.
The numbers that the UN regularly provides on casualties of Russia's war against Ukraine include only cases that could be safely verified, and actual figures are most likely higher.
https://kyivindependent.com/un-records-142-confirmed-cases-of-russia-executing-ukrainian-civilians/
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New evidence compiled by human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance shows that Russia prepared to steal grain supplies, target food infrastructure, and starve the Ukrainian population months before the full-scale invasion, the Independent reported on Nov. 16.
GRC found that Russia's defense contractor started buying bulk carrier cargo ships and trucks to transport grain as early as December 2021.
Following the launch of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russian forces attacked grain-rich regions and food infrastructure first as part of a deliberate starvation campaign, GRC's report says.
“Russia not only deployed a multi-pronged approach by besieging civilian populations, destroying critical infrastructure, but it also pre-planned the seizure and pillage of agricultural commodities in an insidious plan," Catriona Murdoch, a partner at GRC, told the Independent."
"Moscow has sparked a global food crisis and attacked Ukraine’s agriculture sector as a warfare tactic."
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Podolyak posted a lengthy response refuting Musk's argument, writing that surrendering Ukraine to "mandatory large-scale genocide" from Russia will have far-reaching consequences.
Appeasement will only embolden other international aggressors, he said, and the "great war" that Musk predicted will be even more likely.
https://kyivindependent.com/podolyak-musks-suggestion-to-surrender-ukraine-is-catastrophic-mistake/
#RussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine #war #WarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #Musk #StockholmSyndrome #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #InternationalLaw #genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity
Ukraine's National Corruption Prevention Agency (NACP) added the world's largest private alcohol company Bacardi Limited to the "international sponsors of war" list on Aug. 10.
The Bermudian company continues to do business in Russia during its all-out war against Ukraine.
Following Moscow's full-scale invasion, Bacardi Limited said it would stop exporting to Russia and investing in the market's advertising, but this pledge was later removed from the original statement, reads the report
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-designates-bacardi-as-international-sponsor-of-war/
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Moscow has rejected United Nations’ offers to help people in Russian-occupied areas affected by flooding from the collapsed Nova Kakhovka Dam.
The floods destroyed homes and farmland, forced the evacuation of thousands, contaminated supplies of drinking water and sparked fears of environmental disaster.
The UN urged Russia to act in accordance with its obligations under international humanitarian law.
“The UN will continue to do all it can to reach all people – including those suffering as a result of the recent dam destruction – who urgently need life-saving assistance, no matter where they are,” Denise Brown, UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, said in a statement on Sunday.
“Aid cannot be denied to people who need it.”
The death toll from the disaster has risen to 52, with Russian officials saying 35 people had died in areas under its control and Ukraine’s interior ministry saying 17 had died and 31 were missing. More than 11,000 people have been evacuated on both sides.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/19/russia-blocks-un-aid-for-kakhovka-dam-collapse-victims
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #WarCrimes #KakhovkaDam #flooding #InternationalLaw #HumanitarianAid #PutinWarCriminal #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
A trial against Russia due to the Kakhovka Dam destruction may be launched at the International Criminal Court (ICC) if evidence emerges on concrete individuals involved, #Greenpeace legal advisor Daniel Simons said on June 13.
"There is an active campaign to recognize 'ecocide' as an international crime, but the international community has not yet reached an agreement on this issue," Simons commented.
"However, Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute of the ICC qualifies as a crime the intentional attack that causes extensive, lasting, and serious damage to the surrounding natural environment, which will be clearly excessive in comparison with concrete and immediately expected general military advantage," he explained.
Simons said a war crimes trial may therefore be opened against specific individuals who ordered the dam's destruction, intentionally inflicting damage to the environment.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #ecocide #KakhovkaDam #ecology #flooding #pollution #WarCrimes #RussianWarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #ICC #InternationalLaw #PutinWarCriminal
Out of 974 recorded attacks, 873 impacted medical facilities. The attacks have killed at least 101 people and injured 136 others since Feb. 24, 2022.
Russia’s missile strike on a medical clinic in Dnipro on May 26 is not yet included in the data as it takes time for the WHO to verify all attacks
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Russian forces "completely" destroyed a Red Cross warehouse in Odesa during a missile strike, the humanitarian aid organization reported on May 8.
According to the Red Cross, its employees and volunteers were not present at the time of the missile strike.
However, humanitarian aid was destroyed.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attack-destroys-red-cross-warehouse-in-odesa/
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #RedCross #HumanitarianAid #RussianWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #MissileStrikes #RussiaUkraineWar #Odesa #civilians #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine
“We went and killed everyone. There were women, men, seniors, and children.”
These were the words of Azamat Uldarov, an ex-fighter of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group who personally admitted to shooting dead a five or six-year-old girl, speaking to Russian independent outlet Gulagu.net. Uldarov, together with ex-Wagner commander Aleksei Savichev, both described being given and carrying out orders to “clean” entire buildings or areas in Donetsk Oblast of civilians by murdering them all.
The confessions came out on the back of a video of Russian troops, later reported as also belonging to Wagner, beheading a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war with a knife.
No, this is not a fever dream, this is fascist Russia in 2023.
https://kyivindependent.com/editorial-todays-russia-is-fascist-its-time-to-stop-avoiding-the-term/
#RussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine #RussianWarCrimes #PutinWarCriminal #WagnerGroup #murder #confessions #children #civilians #CrimesAgainstHumanity #kidnapping #executions #StandWithUkraine
Von Guttner Sporzynski highlights that the tradition of abduction and forced displacement of the non-conformist population is deeply rooted in Russia’s history.
He starts from the 16th century, when the first deportations of citizens of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania started, then follows to 19th -century Poland, where around 60,000 people were deported following two anti-Russian rebellions, and ends with the 20th century:
“It is estimated that between 1936 and 1952 at _least three million people were deported across the western territories of Soviet Russia and transported thousands of kilometres away to Siberia and Central Asia.”_ Von Guttner Sporzynski concludes that the children who get abducted today from Ukraine may not find their way back home after the war ends.
https://kyivindependent.com/untitled-16/
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After returning to Ukraine from Russia, children complain of beatings and other punishments for refusing to sing the Russian anthem and for mentioning that they are Ukrainians.
https://kyivindependent.com/kidnapped-ukrainian-children/
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If fascist #russia arrests their own citizens who ask for #peace, what do you think #PutinWarCriminal wants?
Peace or #war?
Right, so please STOP asking democratic countries for "peace", and "peace negotiations".
The russians are in this out of fascist hatred and want to kill all Ukrainians. They will not stop by negotiation or with a naïve charm offensive.
They can only be stopped on the battlefield in #Ukraine
By João Costa
#StopRussianAggression
#ArmUkraineNow
#UkraineWillWin
#StandWithUkraine
Of the 50,000 convicts recruited by #mercenary company Wagner Group from the Russian prison system, only 10,000 remain in the ranks of the military, according to Olga Romanova, head of Russia Behind Bars, an NGO that protects the rights of convicts.
The rest have deserted or have been killed or wounded, she said.
#RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine #WagnerGroup #convicts #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolations #RussiaUkraineWar #PutinWarCriminal #WarCrimes #RussianWarCrimes
