Analytical review of the Russian Federation's war crimes documentation activities (June 2025)

This monthly report by the NGO “Association of the Relatives of Kremlin’s Political Prisoners” presents newly documented cases of unlawful detention of civilians in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. These include abductions, torture, incommunicado detention, and imprisonment in Russian penal colonies. In June 2025 alone, 17 new cases were identified. The report also outlines the geographical scope of the crimes, types of violations, and systemic practices employed by the Russian Federation against the civilian population.

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September 2, 2025

Analytical note "Without a roof over your head": the right to housing for released civilians still remains a declaration

The purpose of this analytical material is to assess the level of normative and actual provision of the right to temporary housing for persons who simultaneously: acquired the status of internally displaced persons; were released from illegal imprisonment as a result of the Russian Federation's armed aggression against Ukraine.

September 30, 2024

Digest of the activities of the NGO “Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin” on documenting the war crimes of the Russian Federation against the civilian population in Ukraine in September 2024

Since 2022, we have interviewed 362 witnesses to enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and crimes against civilians, including shelling of civilian infrastructure, occupation appropriation of private property, and illegal deprivation of liberty. As of the end of September 2024, information on 221 civilians who were arbitrarily detained by representatives of the Russian Federation or groups controlled by the aggressor country was found, of which 17 were identified during the processing of testimonies in September 2024.