Nelia Checheta served the state for decades — first with the Soviet military in Turkmenistan and later in Ukraine's Emergency Service — earning official honors along the way. At 62, her story ...

“You can cope with anything, just not being separated from your children. I’m carrying on for them,” says Yulia Dvornichenko. She was arrested in 2021 and held in Russia, before Russia launched its ...

Hundreds of Ukrainian women and girls have reported sexual violence by Russian troops during the four-year war in Ukraine.

Dilbar has languished in pretrial detention for months in the Russian city of Omsk, where she said she was beaten, shocked with a taser, and threatened by prison officers. As she awaits trial on ...

A Ukrainian woman convicted for collaborating with Russian forces is serving an 11-year prison sentence after passing on information about Ukrainian military positions during the 2022 occupation of ...