In recent hours, Russian troops intensified airstrikes and shelling across multiple directions – Kupiansk, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk. Five guided bombs hit houses in Kupiansk, school in Sloviansk was destroyed, people under rubble in Kramatorsk. This is the cost of delay
please follow @crimeaplatform@zudiyeva about crimean political prisoners in russian prisons that are not getting big amount of coverage and face inhumane treatment and torture
Russia still detains 204 Ukrainians (123 of them are Crimean Tatars), 150 are imprisoned.
one of them being Leniye Umerova, 25-year-old Crimean Tatar who was going to visit her cancer-stricken father in Crimea and is illegally detained by Russians in a pre-trial detention center
Russian soldiers have tortured and killed a local priest, Stepan Podolchak, in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.
This was reported by @suspilne_news, citing the Kalanchak Administration.
"They dragged Stepan out of the house barefoot and put a bag on his head. Today, February 15, they came and took his wife to identify him," the administration stated.
Before the war, Stepan Podolchak always conducted services in the village of Kalanchak in Ukrainian. After the occupation, he continued to conduct services in his native language and was a patriot of Ukraine. The FSB summoned the priest for conversations on several occasions, demanding he switch to the Moscow Patriarchate, but he refused.
Exactly a year ago, #CrimeanTatar Dzhemil Gafarov died in the Novocherkassk pre-trial detention center.
He died because of #torture — he wasn’t provided with medical care or released from custody despite his #disability, sick kidneys and heart.
NEW: As the world's eyes have been fixed on Israel's war on #Gaza, the Syrian regime has ramped up its attacks on civilians in Idlib over the past four months, perpetuating violence against its own people with minimal attention, @HaidHaid22 writes.
https://t.co/1rIGgt5vu2
"These attacks [on Idlib by the Syrian regime], compounded by the unforgiving winter and the somber first anniversary of the region’s catastrophic earthquake, have deepened the anguish for residents, layering misery upon misery."
New from @HaidHaid22
Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons in exchange for guarantees of sovereignty. Had Ukraine kept the nukes it would have served as a deterrent against the 2014 invasion and decade long war, genocide, and the countless atrocities Russia is committing.
⚡️ Iran launches missiles at Syria, northern Iraq.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched ballistic missiles at what it claimed was an Israeli spy base in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, and at "anti-Iran terror groups" in Syria on Jan. 16.
The attack set off large explosions in the Iraqi city of Erbil, including at the U.S. Consulate, killing at least four civilians and injuring six, according to the Kurdistan Regional Security Council in Iraq.
How many more photos like these are needed for the world to stop playing by russian rules? Or is this just another one of Putin’s ‘silent ceasefire signals’?
Pictured: a hotel in the Kharkiv region that was targeted with two S - 300 rockets. Photo credit: @suspilne_news
⚡️UPDATE: 11 injured in Russian missile attack on Kharkiv.
The attack hit a hotel in the city center where over 30 civilians were staying. Eleven people were injured, with one man in critical condition.
https://t.co/6CMHCyjchI
These photos captured by the Kyiv Independent show the aftermath of Russia's Jan. 2 morning missile strike against Kyiv, which has killed at least two residents and left thousands without electricity.
Photos: Olena Zashko/Kyiv Independent