News From Ukraine 💣 Bulletin 50

By AM Friday, June 16, 2023

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A Digest of News ✊from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 12 June 2023.

In this week’s bulletin – highlights

Russia shells Kherson evacuation point, a new low in its targeting of civilians. 

Plus: Not Kakhovka Dam alone: Russia is actively destroying other dams in occupied areas. 

Plus: Russia’s use of ‘education’ to destroy Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine is cultural genocide, study finds. 

Plus: New evidence that torture in Russian-occupied Ukraine was deliberate and increasingly systematic, with many civilians tortured to death.

News from the territories occupied by Russia

Russians intensified looting before explosion on Kakhovka HPP (Ukrainska Pravda, June 9th)

Russia shells Kherson evacuation point, obstructs rescue efforts on occupied territory (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 9th)

Crimean artist sentenced to 15 years for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 9th)

Over 350 letters to Crimean political prisoners collected over month of Letters to Free Crimea campaign (Zmina, June 8th)

Not Kakhovka Dam alone: Russia destroys dams in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 8th)

Drunken Russian soldiers block all evacuation routes from Kozachi Laheri village (Ukrainska Pravda, June 7th)

Russia gave advance permission to not investigate its attack on Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 7th)

Everything you need to know about the Kakhovka HPP disaster (Ukrainska Pravda, June 6th)

Russia’s use of ‘education’ to destroy Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine is cultural genocide, study finds (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 6th)

Arrested for protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine, sentenced to 10 years for ‘sabotage’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 5th)

Russian authorities detained Ukrainian woman helping to return children from Russian-occupied territories (Kyiv Independent, May 30th)

News from Ukraine – general

Kherson flood rescue enters second day after collapse of huge dam (Open Democracy, June 7th)

‘Couple of men were sitting drinking tea in the kitchenette. A shell fell there and they were just torn apart. The soldiers buried them right in the vegetable garden...’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 7th)

Call for support to Ukraine over voting rights for displaced voters (Opora, 2 June)

Hoods hoods Klan interview (Independent Left, 30 May)

War-related news from Russia

Anti-war activist kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan by Russian forces (Solidarity Zone, 9 June)

The Brussels declaration by Russian lawyers (Meduza, 9 June)

‘What did each of us do to stop this nightmare’ – Igor Paskar’s final statement in court (People & Nature, 8 June)

Empty streets, ruined homes and burning roofs. Report from Belgorod (The Insider, 7 June)

Analysis and comment

Whither Post-War Ukraine, by Yuliya Yurchenko (Commons (Spil’ne), 8 June)

Ukrainian trade unions statement on Kakhovka HPP explosion and an environmental disaster in Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, June 7th)

Reducing Fossil Fuel Dependence: A Key to Neutralizing Russia’s Leverage during the Invasion of Ukraine (Centre for Civil Liberties, June 5th)

Danilov: Russian Shahed drones contain parts made by Ukraine's allies (Kyiv Independent, June 3rd)

‘Defeating Russia in this war increases the chances of making it face justice’ Yevgeniy Zakharov’s interview with the Media Detector NGO (Ukraine) (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 18th)

Research of human rights abuses

‘Wearing a white scarf towards a Russian tank’ (video, Tribunal for Putin, 9 June)

‘I dream about Ukraine victory’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 9th)

Russia has committed more than 500 crimes against media figures during the full-scale invasion: human rights defenders and activists on the eve of Journalists’ Day (Centre for Civil Liberties, June 6th)

Torture in Russian-occupied Ukraine was deliberate and increasingly systematic, with many civilians tortured to death (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 5th)

‘Just not in the belly: if they hit me, at least the child will be saved’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 5th)

International solidarity

Another Ukraine is Possible: event in London, Saturday 17 June

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