The analytical review for December 2025 was prepared on the basis of an analysis of fourteen testimonies provided by witnesses and victims concerning the unlawful deprivation of personal liberty of fourteen civilian individuals as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The review covers the period from 2022 to 2025 and documents the detention of civilians in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and in the Russian Federation, their confinement in unofficial places of detention, cases of enforced disappearance, incommunicado detention, torture, and persecution on the basis of pro-Ukrainian views or family ties. The collected materials indicate the systemic nature of these violations, which bear the hallmarks of war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity under international criminal law.

Since 2022, we have interviewed 196 witnesses to enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and crimes against civilians. We have identified 203 civilians who were arbitrarily detained by representatives of the Russian Federation or groups controlled by the aggressor country, of whom 18 were identified during the processing of testimonies in July 2024.