Investigations
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Court declared arrest illegal, but only after her death
ASTRA answers the main questions about Alia Galitskaya’s suicide
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“Like a piece of meat. He took a rock and f*cked her up”
The head of women’s colony in Stavropol Territory molests and beats prisoners with his own hands
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“The Spaniard didn’t even fire back”
Where, howand by who the leader of Espanyola was killed. Video from cameras and eyewitness accounts
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“There aren’t many tourists, and when they do come, they’re so scary that you don’t want to go outside”
Occupied resort with a military prison on the Sea of Azov
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“I have experienced captivity, only among my own people”
Deputy commandmant Demin claims: He was tortured for investigating drug and fuel trafficking in the 132 brigade
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The last will of Private Rayevsky
Before his death, Stanislav Rayevsky told how his commander shot a father of five. ASTRA names the killer
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A concentration camp on the territory of an abandoned mine
An investigation about the 5th brigade, whose military tortured American Russell Bentley to death. ASTRA publishes the first video from the torture mine
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Soldiers who refused to serve due to cancer, tuberculosis and mental disorders tricked into battle
Mobilized and contract soldiers from military unit №98592 in Stavropol city were waiting for inspections and military medical examination after writing reports with refusals to participate in the war. Early in the morning on May…
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How Russia Shelled the Mariupol Drama Theater. Investigation by ASTRA
An airstrike on the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater, launched by the Russian Armed Forces on March 16th, was a tragedy the full scale of which we are yet to grasp. ASTRA has interviewed the…
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«I can do whatever I want to you». Russian soldiers raped and murdered Ukrainian civilians in the village of Bohdanivka
The world continues to learn about the atrocities committed in Ukraine’s Kyiv region in the weeks before Russian troops retreated from the area in late March. Together with news outlet ASTRA, Meduza discovered that in…