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Russia is shaping a “new identity” for children in the occupied territories through schools and churches
In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Russian authorities are constructing a comprehensive system of influence over children and adolescents,…
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UK Intelligence: Russia Intensifies Russification and Erasure of Ukrainian Identity in Occupied Territories
Russia is introducing a renewed state strategy across the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, aimed at forcibly reshaping the national…
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Russian Forces Expel Residents and Seize Homes in Occupied Kherson Region
In the temporarily occupied village of Dudchyne in Ukraine’s Kherson region, Russian troops are forcibly expelling residents from their homes,…
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Russia plans to build new prisons in occupied Kherson region to suppress resistance
The Russian occupation authorities are preparing to expand the system of repression in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson…
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Russian occupation authorities torture Ukrainian children with psychotropic drugs and ban the Ukrainian language — Gerasymchuk
In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Russian occupiers systematically abuse children — depriving them of their right to the…
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More than 80,000 people have gone missing in Ukraine due to Russian aggression, says Lubinets
More than 80,000 Ukrainians are considered missing due to crimes committed by Russian occupiers, in particular forced deportation and illegal…
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Baptists fined for “missionary activities” in Luhansk and Donetsk regions
Russian security forces in the occupied part of eastern Ukraine continue to persecute Christians: they conduct searches in houses of…
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“Described as merchandise”: occupiers create online catalog of Ukrainian children from Luhansk region
Russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region have launched an online catalog with photos and descriptions of Ukrainian children…
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Russia-occupied Ukraine is worse than North Korea: Freedom House report declares total destruction of rights and freedoms
Freedom House in its annual report “Freedom in the World 2025” for the first time evaluates all the territories of…
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Ukraine’s MFA calls on the world to strongly condemn Russia’s religious persecution in the occupied territories
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine issued an official statement condemning Russia’s systemic repression of religious communities, clergy and…
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In the occupied territories, all parishes of the OCU and Catholics have been destroyed, Protestant communities have decreased by 3.6 times
After the occupation of part of Ukraine’s territories by Russian troops, religious life there underwent a profound transformation and repression.…
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Russia intensifies religious repression in occupied Kherson region – ISW
The Russian occupation authorities in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region continue to systematically persecute religious minorities, in…
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In Mariupol, the occupation authorities turn the former building of the Church of Good Changes into a cinema
In Mariupol, the occupation authorities have decided to convert the building of a church destroyed during Russian shelling in 2022…
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Russia Holds up to 1.6 Million Ukrainian Children – Office of the President
Ukraine continues its fight to return Ukrainian children who have been illegally deported or forced to live under occupation by…
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Ukraine has returned more than 1000 children from Russia, but most still remain there – Dmytro Lubinets
Ukraine managed to return 1002 children from Russia and the occupied territories. This was announced on November 12 in Brussels…
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