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Oct 25, 2024 | 
vilaweb.cat | Danylo Mokryk
25.10.2024 - 21:40 “Que Rússia conservi el control dels territoris ucraïnesos ocupats per congelar definitivament aquesta guerra!” Aquesta consigna, repetida en mitjans i discursos polítics per tot arreu, ha esdevingut un “pla de pau” popular per a la guerra de Rússia contra Ucraïna. Però quan es proposa, rarament s’exposa una qüestió crucial: què implica aquesta fórmula per als ucraïnesos que viuen sota l’ocupació russa?
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Danylo Mokryk
On the morning of Nov. 20, 2023, Russians came to Raisa Rusnak’s home, looking for her 28-year-old son Ruslan. Four masked men threw him onto the ground and began beating him. "Guys, what have I done to you? What do you want from me?" Ruslan shouted. Those were the final words Raisa heard from her son. She never saw him alive again. Eight days later, she identified his body at the morgue.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
occrp.org | Danylo Mokryk
After earlier reporting that Russian forces have been using small commercial drones, loaded with explosives, in what the outlet called “human safaris,” a new investigation published on Thursday by the OCCRP member center in Ukraine identified victims of torture and killings. Reporters have found that in Hornostaivka, a former Ukrainian police station in Torhova Street has been transformed into a torture chamber by Russian soldiers.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Danylo Mokryk |Olga Rudenko
Russian forces are abducting, torturing, and killing civilians living in the occupied left bank of the Ukrainian Kherson region since the onset of the full-scale invasion in 2022 – and they continue to do so. The village of Hornostaivka, located on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson region, has become a center of Russian occupation terror since its capture in 2022.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Danylo Mokryk
The following opinion piece accompanies the Kyiv Independent's War Crimes Investigations Unit's newly released documentary, "Shadows Across the River." Watch the documentary by clicking here. “Let Russia retain control over occupied Ukrainian territories to finally freeze this war!” This refrain, repeated in media and political discourse worldwide, has become a popular "peace plan" for Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
dennikn.sk | Danylo Mokryk
Autor je ukrajinský novinár, autor dokumentu Zničiť, celú alebo po častiachNa jar 2022 krátko po tom, ako boli odhalené hrôzy v ukrajinskej Buči, niekoľko západných lídrov vyslovilo slovo „genocída“. Americký prezident Joe Biden, bývalý britský premiér Boris Johnson, bývalý kolumbijský prezident Ivan Duque, kanadský premiér Justin Trudeau ho použili krátko po sebe, hoci každý svojím spôsobom.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Danylo Mokryk
Editor's Note: The story is based on the documentary "Destroy, in Whole or in Part," published by the Kyiv Independent's War Crimes Investigations Unit. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has committed thousands of crimes in Ukraine. Ivan Vyhivskyi, the National Police head, said that Kyiv is investigating over 100,000 war crimes cases committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
kyivindependent.com | Danylo Mokryk
In the spring of 2022, right after Russia’s atrocities in Bucha were exposed, several Western leaders uttered the term “genocide.” U.S. President Joe Biden, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Colombian President Ivan Duque, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did so in short succession, albeit in their own way. “I called it genocide because it’s become clearer and clearer that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is just trying to wipe out even the idea of being Ukrainian.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Danylo Mokryk
In the spring of 2022, right after Russia’s atrocities in Bucha were exposed, several Western leaders uttered the term “genocide.” U.S. President Joe Biden, former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, former Colombian President Ivan Duque, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did so in short succession, albeit in their own way. “I called it genocide because it’s become clearer and clearer that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is just trying to wipe out even the idea of being Ukrainian.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
kyivindependent.com | Danylo Mokryk |Vitalii Havura
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine issued an arrest warrant against former Health Minister Maksym Stepanov, suspected of embezzling state funds. The court stated that the ex-minister is currently abroad without specifying his exact location. The Kyiv Independent’s Editor-in-Chief Olga Rudenko received this year’s special prize of the Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs Award, recognizing excellence in journalism.
