Inna Pavlova struggles to hold back her tears as she recalls the moment she knew Russian troops had killed her 29-year-old son after he was captured in Ukraine’s fierce battle for Avdiivka in the Donetsk region.
Since Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine began, dozens of journalists have disappeared, some have been kidnapped or threatened, and some have been killed by occupying forces, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says.
Mykhailo Lebedev was 15 years old when Russian forces rolled into Mariupol and separated him from his sisters. Unlike many of the children in Ukraine displaced into Russia or the territories held by Moscow’s forces, the teenager was lucky to escape.
Yulia Romashkevich remembers the shock two years ago when she woke up in the early hours to the sound of Russian airstrikes on Ukraine. “My daughter woke up to eat,” she recalls. “I heard the first explosion and immediately started waking my husband.”
As Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine enters its third year, allegations and evidence of war crimes committed by Moscow’s forces continue to mount. International efforts are being made to prosecute the crimes, but many are worried that a majority of the incidents will never make it to trial.
Svitlana Klymenko remembers some of the dark scenes she witnessed in the city of Bakhmut in the early days of Russia’s full-scale invasion when the 44-year-old was sheltering in a cramped basement with her husband and teenage daughter.
When Russian forces launched a vicious assault against Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol in the spring of 2022, the city’s former artistic director Anatoly Levchenko knew his family should have fled. But by then, it was too late.
“10 years ago, Ukraine started a new page of struggle, 10 years ago, Ukrainians launched their first counteroffensive,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech last month marking the 10th anniversary of the Euromaidan protests. “Against lawlessness, attempts to deprive us of a European future.”
From grain import scams in European Union countries bordering Ukraine to a lithium-ion battery waste plant scandal in Hungary, from a reckless Russian spy to the vast amounts of money disinformation can generate in Slovakia – this is The Organised Crime and Corruption Watch, regional edition no. 9.
Ukraine is in the grip of a mental health crisis with a large majority of people in the nation at war showing signs of mental health issues for which they may need to seek psychological help, according to Ukraine’s health minister.
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