News From Ukraine 💣 Bulletin 48

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 29 May 2023.

In this week’s bulletin – highlights

Three years after Enver Seitosmanov received a 17-year sentence without any crime, a Russian court has sentenced his brother Ernes Seitosmanov to 18 years on identical and profoundly flawed charges.

Plus: First-hand accounts from civilians who survived Russian bombing of residential areas.

Plus: Help sponsor a counter-event to the neoliberal intergovernmental “Ukraine Recovery Conference”: the USC is organising an alternative: “Another Ukraine is Possible.”

News from the territories occupied by Russia

Russian occupiers burn down a house in Mariupol following a brawl

Russia effectively sentences veteran Crimean Tatar activist to death for somebody else’s voice on a tape

How Moscow recruited collaborators in the occupied territories

Crimean Tatar activist sentenced to 18 years for discussing religion and Russian repression

Armed Russian FSB violently arrest peaceful Jehovah’s Witness in occupied Crimea

Why Putin is forcing occupied Ukrainians to become Russian citizens

Russian ‘Big Brother surveillance’ intensified in occupied Mariupol

Invaders remove Ukrainian from schools under Russian occupation, and want to eliminate English

Russian FSB force Crimean Tatar to sign blank 'confessions' to railway sabotage or “never see his family again”

50 bodies of missing persons found in liberated territories over past month

News from Ukraine – general

Russian attack on medical facility in Dnipro: woman killed, many injured

Volodymyr Panasenko, victim of Ukraine’s most egregious miscarriage of justice, freed after over 16 years

Ukrainian manufacturers should rebuild Ukraine, report says

‘A soldier must be a coward and, when necessary, a hero’

War-related news from Russia

The Chinese dream for Russian people

New arrest on grotesque criminal charges in Russia’s attack on Perm Memorial and historical memory

Analysis and comment

Western capital, warmonger Putin and the climate policy disaster

What Happened in Ukraine in 2013– 2014?

Research of human rights abuses

‘There were more than five thousand of us in the shelter’ — account of the first war days in Mariupol

‘I prayed I wouldn’t be next.’ Secretive prisons where Russia tortures Ukrainian civilians

Fresh Details on Russia’s Forcible Transfer of Ukrainian Children

‘I fell face down in the glass and covered my head with my hands’

Prosecuting Russia’s crime of aggression in Ukraine

International solidarity

Ukrainian workers' fight for a just reconstruction

Stand with Ukraine: a message to UCU congress delegates

Civil service conference votes to stand in solidarity with Ukraine

ZMINA opens a photo exhibition in the European Parliament about Crimean political prisоners

ZMINA joined the13th Sakharov conference in Vilnius: how to win a lasting peace

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