In this week’s bulletin
Life in flooded Kherson; more abuses by Russia in the occupied territories, including torture and disappearances, mass imprisonment (an AP investigation) and torture of women.
Comment on Ukraine’s debt burden and the politics of solidarity
News from the territories occupied by Russia
13-year sentences for somebody else's conversation in cynical rehash of Russia's first attack on Crimean Tatar rights activists (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Russia hides new crimes committed by convicted prisoners pardoned by Putin for killing in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Russia creates "network of prisons" for Ukrainians (Ukrainska Pravda, July 14th)
Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more (AP, July 13th)
Russians seize Crimean Tatar from occupied Kherson oblast in revenge for Ukraine’s Civic Blockade of Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 13th)
Deportation of Ukrainians by Russians reaches Henichesk district (Ukrainska Pravda, July 13th)
At least one Ukrainian from Kherson oblast dead after invaders refuse healthcare without Russian passport (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 13th)
Electric shock to chest, waterboarding, beatings: how Russians abused women in occupied Kherson (Ukrainska Pravda, July 13th)
Russia created “women’s cells” in Kherson detention center where at least 30 women were held – human rights defenders (Zmina, July 13th)
Russia abducts Ukrainian from Berdiansk and tortures out ‘confession’ for insane ‘international terrorism trial’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 12th)
Young Crimean Tatar seized trying to visit her gravely ill father held in Russian solitary confinement (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 11th)
Russia sentences Ukrainians to over 20 years for partisan attack on Kherson collaborator (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
15 years in Russian captivity for helping Crimean Solidarity human rights movement (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
News from Ukraine – general
Kherson: Life in a flooded city (Open Democracy, July 13th)
Law on legal status of missing persons marks five years: It functions but has problems – human rights defenders (Zmina, July 12th)
Ukraine’s journalists battle for their independence (Social Europe, July 10th)
Media consumption habits of Ukrainians: the second year of full-scale war (Opora, July 10th)
Analysis and comment
Ukraine got the best it could out of NATO’s Vilnius summit, say experts (Open Democracy, July 14th)
Resisting the shock doctrine (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, July 15th)
Kavita Krishnan: “our indifference to Ukraine did harm to our struggle in India” (Commons (Spil’ne), 11 July)
Ukraine and the violence of abstraction (New Politics, July 10th)
Ban Cluster Bombs – Ukraine is No exception (Anti-capitalist Resistance, July 10th)
Wagner armed rebellion an inflection point in Putin’s war (Green Left, 10 July)
Research of human rights abuses
Over 50 Russians found guilty of war crimes in Ukraine – Ukraine's Prosecutor General (Ukrainska Pravda, July 15th)
Tetiana Pechonchyk speaks at meeting of Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe: responsibility for international crimes (Zmina, July 11th)
‘I saw a Russian armored personnel carrier and stood stunned’, Kharkiv artist Halyna Bulhakova (Tribunal for Putin, July 10th)
‘The Russians mindlessly destroy everything around,’ — Mariia Karandiuk, Zalissia (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
International solidarity
Viktoriia Ivlieva: ‘I would never defend Russia’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Campaign Aid Delivered to Resistance and Rescue Squad in Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, July 12th)
Upcoming event
The International Forum of the International Crimea Platform Expert Network “Foreseeing the future: expert’s view” will be held in Kyiv, 18-19 July (Zmina, July 14th)
News from the territories occupied by Russia
13-year sentences for somebody else's conversation in cynical rehash of Russia's first attack on Crimean Tatar rights activists (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Russia hides new crimes committed by convicted prisoners pardoned by Putin for killing in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Russia creates "network of prisons" for Ukrainians (Ukrainska Pravda, July 14th)
Thousands of Ukraine civilians are being held in Russian prisons. Russia plans to build many more (AP, July 13th)
Russians seize Crimean Tatar from occupied Kherson oblast in revenge for Ukraine’s Civic Blockade of Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 13th)
Deportation of Ukrainians by Russians reaches Henichesk district (Ukrainska Pravda, July 13th)
At least one Ukrainian from Kherson oblast dead after invaders refuse healthcare without Russian passport (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 13th)
Electric shock to chest, waterboarding, beatings: how Russians abused women in occupied Kherson (Ukrainska Pravda, July 13th)
Russia created “women’s cells” in Kherson detention center where at least 30 women were held – human rights defenders (Zmina, July 13th)
Russia abducts Ukrainian from Berdiansk and tortures out ‘confession’ for insane ‘international terrorism trial’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 12th)
Young Crimean Tatar seized trying to visit her gravely ill father held in Russian solitary confinement (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 11th)
Russia sentences Ukrainians to over 20 years for partisan attack on Kherson collaborator (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
15 years in Russian captivity for helping Crimean Solidarity human rights movement (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
News from Ukraine – general
Kherson: Life in a flooded city (Open Democracy, July 13th)
Law on legal status of missing persons marks five years: It functions but has problems – human rights defenders (Zmina, July 12th)
Ukraine’s journalists battle for their independence (Social Europe, July 10th)
Media consumption habits of Ukrainians: the second year of full-scale war (Opora, July 10th)
Analysis and comment
Ukraine got the best it could out of NATO’s Vilnius summit, say experts (Open Democracy, July 14th)
Resisting the shock doctrine (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, July 15th)
Kavita Krishnan: “our indifference to Ukraine did harm to our struggle in India” (Commons (Spil’ne), 11 July)
Ukraine and the violence of abstraction (New Politics, July 10th)
Ban Cluster Bombs – Ukraine is No exception (Anti-capitalist Resistance, July 10th)
Wagner armed rebellion an inflection point in Putin’s war (Green Left, 10 July)
Research of human rights abuses
Over 50 Russians found guilty of war crimes in Ukraine – Ukraine's Prosecutor General (Ukrainska Pravda, July 15th)
Tetiana Pechonchyk speaks at meeting of Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe: responsibility for international crimes (Zmina, July 11th)
‘I saw a Russian armored personnel carrier and stood stunned’, Kharkiv artist Halyna Bulhakova (Tribunal for Putin, July 10th)
‘The Russians mindlessly destroy everything around,’ — Mariia Karandiuk, Zalissia (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
International solidarity
Viktoriia Ivlieva: ‘I would never defend Russia’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Campaign Aid Delivered to Resistance and Rescue Squad in Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, July 12th)
Upcoming event
The International Forum of the International Crimea Platform Expert Network “Foreseeing the future: expert’s view” will be held in Kyiv, 18-19 July (Zmina, July 14th)
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