ANNUAL REPORT 2022 3. WORK WITHIN STRATEGIC AREAS AND HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVES OZON Despite challenges and secu- rity threats, the OZON public monitoring group managed to preserve and expand the capacity of citizens to actively engage in essential human rights activities in 2022. Notwithstanding the com- plex security challenge – the onset of the full-scale war of Russia against Ukraine and the imposition of martial law in the country, OZON com- munity has turned out to be very flexible and managed to organise and start its activ- ities in three focus areas: • monitoring of peace- ful assemblies and court hearings; • recording war crimes and information sup- port to relatives of civilian captives; • national monitoring of protective structures for civilian protection. 23