Ukrainian civilians in areas under Rus occupation on the left bank of the Dnipro river described how occupation authorities failed to provide timely evacuation, aid, leaving people stranded and screaming for help from the rooftops of their flooded houses.
hrw.org/news/2023/06/1… Russian occupation authorities shut down the town of Oleshky for entry and exit, effectively locking people inside. At checkpoints, they turned around those who tried to flee, saying: “Haven’t you been waiting it out hoping for Ukraine to come back? Go back and wait some more.”

Our new report on torture, enforced disappearances by Russian forces in Ukraine is out today.

Russian forces have turned occupied areas of southern Ukraine into an abyss of lawlessness, targeting local officials, protesters, others to instill fear.👇
hrw.org/news/2022/07/2… We spoke with 71 people from Kherson, Melitopol, Berdyansk, Skadovsk and 10 other cities and towns.

They described 42 cases in which occupation forces either forcibly disappeared civilians or held them arbitrarily, in some cases incommunicado, and tortured many of them.