In this week’s bulletin
More on the mistreatment and torture of prisoners held by Russia.
Plus new wave of terror against Crimean Tatars.
Plus more on Russian looting in occupied areas.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
1,500 Russian soldiers quartered in civilian facilities in Zaporizhzhia Oblast – Ukraine's General Staff (Ukrainska Pravda, August 26th)
Statement by human rights organizations on yet another wave of searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars (Zmina, August 25th)
Cars, washing machines, jewelry, and sausages: How the occupants robbed the Kharkiv Region (Tribunal for Putin, August 25th)
Russian FSB seize Crimean Tatar family’s last son in new wave of terror against Crimean Solidarity activists (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 25th)
Ukrainian naval captain’s abduction, torture and long sentence will be repeated until Russia is driven out of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 25th)
Residents of the occupied territories are perceived as victims of circumstances by the majority of Ukrainians (Opora, August 23rd)
Russia has killed two Ukrainian political prisoners and is endangering at least 21 others (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 22nd)
Russian-installed ‘leader’ in occupied Ukraine acknowledges that Ukrainians hate and try to kill them (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 22nd)
Russia begins trial of Crimean Tatars arrested after humiliating attack by Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 21st)
60 thousand Ukrainians forcibly mobilized to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine (Tribunal for Putin, August 18th)
Call for strike in Mariupol (International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggle, August 13th)
News from Ukraine – general
Education Workers Facing Challenge Of Russian Invasion (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, August 25th)
‘The man killed by a Russian sniper could not be buried for two months’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 24th)
Statement of the “Ukraine. 5AM” Coalition regarding the missile attack on the music and drama theater in Chernihiv on August 19, 2023 (Zmina, August 23rd)
July wave of social conflicts in Ukraine (Lib.com, August 6th)
Analysis and comment
How far-right Republicans manipulate the topic of Ukrainian elections (Opora, 24 August)
“Pacifism is a privilege”. Ukrainian leftists at war (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, August 17th)
Ukraine, feminists on the alert. After the war, there is a risk of a ban on abortion (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, August 17th)
How Ukraine could emerge from war as a climate leader (Carbon Brief, August 8th)
Research of human rights abuses
Genocide in Mariupol. Legal rationale of the international crime (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 25th)
Short-term enforced disappearances: UN takes note of ZMINA’s position (Zmina, August 18th)
War-related news from Russia
“We love you, Uncle Zhenya” (The Russian Reader, 27 August)
Ukraine offers concrete solidarity to jailed Russian anti-war activists (Green Left, 24 August)
Punitive Psychiatry: The Case of Russian Anti-War Protester Mikhail Davydov (Russian Reader, August 23rd)
Russia approves fake 'court' sentence against renowned Ukrainian rights defender, journalist and prisoner of war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 23rd)
Statement on Moscow court’s consideration of appeal against conviction of Maksym Butkevych (Zmina, August 21st)
63% of Russians view bloody dictator and mass murderer Stalin positively. In Ukraine only 4% (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 21st)
International solidarity
Why should the transfer of Ukrainian prisoners of war to Hungary cause concern? (Tribunal for Putin, August 26th)
Education workers' union representative in Kyiv (Twitter, August 25th)
Russian court rejects appeal to free Ukrainian human rights activist Maksym Butkevych (Green Left, 24 August)
Event in Türkiye: liberate Ukrainian women from Russian captivity (Zmina, August 24th)
Valeriy Petrov from Lviv Social Movement, appeals for solidarity (Twitter, August 23rd)
Be the voice of captive Ukrainians: urgent campaign launches in Germany in the wake of Ukrainian Independence Day (Zmina, August 23rd)
VOICES — rally in support of civilian prisoners (Centre for Civil Liberties, August 22nd)
Justice for Maksym Butkevych imprisoned by Russia (Amnesty International, August 18th)
21 political prisoners in Russian captivity need immediate medical attention: (Zmina, August 14th)
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