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Onysiia Sinyuk

Stolen childhood: how the Belarusian regime is erasing Ukrainian children’s identity through displacement, re‑education, and militarization
Publications - 04 October 2024

Stolen childhood: how the Belarusian regime is erasing Ukrainian children’s identity through displacement, re‑education, and militarization

Since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation has intensified its state policy of forcibly displacing Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Russia began this practice in 2014 after the illegal annexation and occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The forcible displacement of Ukrainian children from the […]

Mechanisms (ways) for returning Ukrainians deported to the territory of the Russian Federation
Publications - 09 October 2023

Mechanisms (ways) for returning Ukrainians deported to the territory of the Russian Federation

Since the beginning of the large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine 5AM Coalition has been documenting the facts of international crimes committed by the forces of the aggressor country, including the deportation of Ukrainian citizens to the territory of the Russian Federation. In the report presented by the Coalition in January 2023, the deportation of […]

Torture chamber at school: an analysis of the testimonies of detainees in the village of Bilyayivka, Kherson region
Publications - 31 August 2023

Torture chamber at school: an analysis of the testimonies of detainees in the village of Bilyayivka, Kherson region

The purpose of this analysis is a detailed study of the illegal detention of civilians in the premises of the Biliaivsky educational complex «Secondary school – preschool educational institution (nursery–kindergarten) of I–III degrees’’ during the occupation of the village of Bilyayivka by the Russian Armed Forces of the Novooleksandrivka rural community of the Beryslav district […]

“Women’s cells” of Kherson torture chamber: analytical report based on the testimonies of detainees
Publications - 13 July 2023

“Women’s cells” of Kherson torture chamber: analytical report based on the testimonies of detainees

The report analyses all stages of the confinement of women by representatives of the Russian Federation in Temporary detention center (TDC) No. 1 of the Main Department of the National Police in Kherson Region, located at 3 Teploenerhetykiv Street, during the occupation of the city of Kherson, in particular, the circumstances and reasons for detention, […]

Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of active citizens during the full-scale armed aggression by Russia against Ukraine
Publications - 04 July 2023

Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of active citizens during the full-scale armed aggression by Russia against Ukraine

This report provides data on enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of active citizens, including public activists, volunteers, journalists, local government officials and employees, educators, religious figures, cultural figures, as well as relatives of active citizens; these disappearances and arbitrary detentions took place on the territory of nine regions of Ukraine, which were or remain occupied […]

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