Crimea

Reintegration of youth from the occupied territories requires inter-agency coordination – Presidential Representative of Crimea
News - 28 May 2025

Reintegration of youth from the occupied territories requires inter-agency coordination – Presidential Representative of Crimea

Children leaving temporarily occupied Crimea urgently need integration into Ukraine's educational system

How Russian archaeologists in occupied Crimea are violating international law
News - 24 May 2025

How Russian archaeologists in occupied Crimea are violating international law

Since its occupation in 2014, Russian archaeologists are systematically conducting excavations on Ukrainian cultural heritage sites in Crimea, effectively appropriating or destroying them under the guise of "scientific research".

Children in occupied Crimea are forced to sew clothes and produce drone parts for the Russian military
News - 21 May 2025

Children in occupied Crimea are forced to sew clothes and produce drone parts for the Russian military

Ukrainian children living under Russian occupation are being compelled to manufacture materials and equipment for the Russian army during vocational training classes.

Russian media is an important link in the chain of intimidation against Crimeans under occupation – ZMINA human rights advocate
News - 20 May 2025

Russian media is an important link in the chain of intimidation against Crimeans under occupation – ZMINA human rights advocate

During the First Crimea Week in Brussels, a human rights advocate from the Human Rights Centre ZMINA explained how the Russian media plays a crucial role in intimidating Crimeans with pro-Ukrainian views in the temporarily occupied territories

Crimean activists hold resistance actions on Day of Remembrance for Victims of Crimean Tatar Genocide
News - 18 May 2025

Crimean activists hold resistance actions on Day of Remembrance for Victims of Crimean Tatar Genocide

Activists from the "Yellow Ribbon" movement held a resistance action in temporarily occupied Crimea on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People

Occupied Crimea: locals judged daily for “Army Fakes”
News - 09 May 2025

Occupied Crimea: locals judged daily for “Army Fakes”

Occupation courts are persecuting cases of so-called "discreditation of the Russian army" on a daily basis in Crimea

Illegal mobilisation sparks 574 criminal cases in occupied Crimea – Crimean Human Rights Group’s report
News - 04 February 2025

Illegal mobilisation sparks 574 criminal cases in occupied Crimea – Crimean Human Rights Group’s report

The Crimean human rights organisation hilighted that the Kremlin and occupation authorities in Crimea keep using targeted and prosecutorial methods to conscript the local population

“The father did not find out where Raim was before his death”: why Russia transfers Crimean political prisoners as far as possible from their relatives
Articles - 02 August 2024

“The father did not find out where Raim was before his death”: why Russia transfers Crimean political prisoners as far as possible from their relatives

Human rights activists consider this to be one of the Russians' methods of putting pressure on those who disagree with the occupation policy in Crimea

Kidnapped Ukrainians are subjected to torture both by the Russian military and FSB – Crimean human rights defenders
News - 16 January 2023

Kidnapped Ukrainians are subjected to torture both by the Russian military and FSB – Crimean human rights defenders

When the full-scale invasion  started, monitors of the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHRG) have begun to get information from the occupied settlements of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions that Ukrainian civilians abducted in these territories by the Russian military, the Rosguard, or the FSB are being transported to places of detention in Crimea

It’s not a problem for Russians to place Grad MLRS behind column of civilians and fire at Ukrainian positions: Story of veteran who escaped from occupied Kherson region
Articles - 30 September 2022

It’s not a problem for Russians to place Grad MLRS behind column of civilians and fire at Ukrainian positions: Story of veteran who escaped from occupied Kherson region

When Russia’s full-scale offensive began, Ruslan Zaredinov, a Crimean Tatar and ATO veteran, lived with his family in the urban-type village of Novooleksiyivka, Henichesk district, Kherson region, 25km from Chonhar. They were unable to evacuate due to the almost lightning-fast occupation of Kherson region. For five months, the 35-year-old man and his family lived in fear that the Russians would come for Ruslan as it happened to his friends and familiar veterans.