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Special report: One prisoner recalls how a man was beaten to death next to him. Another recounts being stripped, stabbed and subjected to electric shocks. In recently liberated Trostyanets in Sumy, Bel Trew speaks to torture victims and uncovers fresh evidence of possible war crimes in northeast Ukraine

The strategic port city in southern Ukraine has been bombarded with suspected banned munitions and is bracing for a renewed Russian onslaught as Vladimir Putin repositions his forces, reports Bel Trew

From bringing in supplies through secret routes to delivering sandwiches amid Russian shelling, citizens in Ukraine’s northern city of Chernihiv tell Bel Trew how they risked their lives every day to provide food to thousands of people battling hunger and thirst

Special Report: A man watches a Russian missile destroy his family’s home in front of his eyes. A teenager avoids a summary execution by seconds. In Borodyanka, Bucha, Hostomel and Makariv, Bel Trew finds a Russian retreat marked by a trail of murdered civilians, mass graves and devastation

Under shelling and missiles, medics risk their lives to treat the 250,000 people in Ukraine with HIV amid fears that the war could set their efforts back decades, reports Bel Trew from Odesa and Zaporizhzhia

Tens of thousands of people are trapped in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which has become a grim symbol of Russia’s brutal conflict. Those who fled to nearby Zaporizhzhia tell Bel Trew about the starvation, slaughter, and graves being dug across parks, gardens, and schools

Civilians who managed to flee devastated city tell The Independent their hometown is ‘utterly destroyed’

About 170,000 people estimated to be trapped in besieged city under relentless bombardment

Odesa has been a centre of Jewish life for hundreds of years. Members of the community there tell Bel Trew of their anger and terror as Vladimir Putin – who claimed to want to ‘denazify’ Ukraine – bombards the coast

Tapping radiators for water, cooking on fires and living underground, people in the encircled Ukrainian city tell Bel Trew of the daily battle to avoid death from a furious bombardment

Volodymyr Groysman is urging western governments to help Ukraine more and tells Bel Trew that Vladimir Putin must be stopped