https://warsawsecurityforum.org
Ariana Gic
Independent Political Analyst
York University – Osgoode Hall Law School
Direct Initiative International Centre for Ukraine
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ariana Gic
Director, Direct Initiative — International Centre for Ukraine
Ariana Gic is a writer, political and legal analyst, and coordinator of various advocacy campaigns for a strong international response to Russia’s war and genocide against Ukraine.
She is the Director of the Direct Initiative International Centre for Ukraine, and co-author of the upcoming book, Unrecognized War. Ms Gic is co-lead of a legal research project on the ongoing Russian genocide against Ukrainians, and an information campaign “Save Ukraine to Save the World” for International Recognition of this genocide. She co-led “Truth for Peace,” a public campaign which called for recognizing Russia as the aggressor state waging unlawful interstate war against Ukraine from 2014 to 2022, and continues to campaign for Russia being designated as a rogue state threatening world peace, and as a state sponsor of terrorism.
She has written extensively on the issues of the Russia-Ukraine war for international and Ukrainian media for over a decade. Ms Gic is sanctioned by the Russian Federation for her advocacy and activism work.
Mar 20, 2026
Today, Russia sentenced Ukrainian teenagers to years of imprisonment.
Viktor Azarovskyi — 8 years and 6 months.
Oleh Shokol — 7 years and 6 months.
Denys Vasylyk — 7 years.
Children from an occupied territory were accused of “terrorism” and tried as citizens of the Russian Federation.
On March 19, 2026, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don delivered its verdict against three teenagers from the temporarily occupied city of Melitopol.
At the time of their detention in the fall of 2023, they were only 16–17 years old.
For more than two years, they were unlawfully held in inhumane conditions, subjected to beatings, torture, and psychological pressure.
They were transferred between multiple detention facilities, including Detention Center No. 2 in Mariupol and Detention Center No. 2 in Taganrog, which is known for the severe abuse of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war.
According to Viktor Azarovskyi’s lawyer, his health significantly deteriorated in Taganrog: he was unable to sleep or eat, and his hands were covered in severe skin lesions.
Despite the unlawful transfer of the teenagers from occupied territory and the questionable nature of the evidence, Russia brought serious charges against them. The trial was held behind closed doors, without access for independent observers or international organizations.
This is not justice. This is the persecution of children and a war crime.
Russia systematically uses unlawful detention, torture, and sham trials as tools of pressure against Ukrainian children, in violation of international humanitarian law.
That is why the return of every Ukrainian child remains an unconditional priority for Ukraine.
BringKidsBack”
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Yet another example of how the EU clearly doesn’t want to take real action against Russia. Instead, fascists of the corrupt, authoritarian regime (verging on full dictatorship) will observe elections in EU! This isn’t a case of Trojan Horse but deliberate, humiliating, self-harm.
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All across Ukraine, students study in bunkers and schools built underground. They cannot look out a window to gaze at the sky or a bird flying by. They cannot open a window for a spring breeze to blow in. Underground, they hope the world above isn’t annihilated while they learn.
Children are NOT supposed to have to receive their educations deep underground as their schools, homes, hospitals – and everything in between – above are destroyed. They are supposed to study IN PEACE!
Russia robs Ukrainians of absolutely EVERYTHING!
Thanks to Maria Avdeeva for highlighting the various harms Ukrainian children suffer due to Russian aggression and genocide.
Comment from :
Professional kremtrolls descended on the last segment. Example :
Matthew Ong
“Please remember: the Banderists who hijacked your government and the US/EU neocons were determined to use Ukraine as a meat grinder to cripple Russia. They elevated the Banderists to power and then took their efforts to impose apartheid over the Donbas and the subsequent backlash into a regional conflict between NATO and Russia. The shelling of the Donbas was the primer, Russia’s efforts to protect ethnic Russians in the Donbas the trigger, and the US/EU sanctions were the trap. At each stage the US/EU/Kiev had many opportunities Russia gave them to establish fair rights for the Donbas and resolve the situation without any violence, but the former consistently rejected these offers and instead sought to provoke Russia into a full attack. Russia sent in troops to the Donbas at the behest of the ethic Russians specifically to protect them from the Banderist army’s shelling and to compel Zelinsky to come back to the Minsk Accords his government had already signed years ago.
Only after Kiev and the West once again signaled they would not abide by their own agreements and were intent on full war, hoping to retake the Donbas by force, subject it to apartheid and possible ethnic cleansing, and let the big US crush Russia through sanctions, did Russia decide it needed to ‘demilitarize’ Ukraine to its satisfaction. If you blaming Russia for the ultimate misery of the Ukrainians, you are as ignorant as those faux liberal reformers in Iran who blame their admittedly repressive government for the murderous bombs being dropped on them by Israel and the US.”
Now Ong you can go back to your full time job : performing fellatio on your tiny fuhrer.
I am fearful that OrbanaZi will indeed steal the election. Both putler and his servant Krasnov want this.
UK must build own nuclear missiles, say Lib Dems
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dz1k0rr4o
Indeed, Europe is corrupt, stupid, and incompetent, and exceedingly weak.