A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 11-December-2023.
⬤ Russia’s fake trials, illegal sentences and torture, including of a US citizen, and crimes against journalists.
⬤ Russian oil & the carbon war; Crimea repression.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia fakes trials and life sentences against Ukrainian POWs to rewrite the facts about its war crimes and destruction of Mariupol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 8th)
‘Playing Russian roulette’ — a village head in the Kherson region captured by the occupiers (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 8th)
‘What life is this?’: Escaping Ukraine’s occupied territories (Open Democracy, December 7th)
Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized after 9 years of Russian brutal torment (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 7th)
Russia is holding around four thousand Ukrainian civilians prisoner, torturing most of them (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 6th)
Illegal Russian occupation ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian veteran to 13 years on grotesque ‘spying’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)
‘I’m no criminal’. Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia's war against Ukraine refuses to wear prison uniform (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)
Buried alive — memories of a writer (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 4th)
Russia refuses critically ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner vital heart medication (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 4th)
Chilling déjà vu as Russia uses Crimean SMERSH to hunt down supporters of Ukraine in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 4th)
Russia imitates representation of Crimean Tatars, which doesn’t exist (Crimea SOS, 3 November)
News from Ukraine – general
In memoriam: railway union activist Oleksandr Kharchenko (KVPU on X/twitter, 10 December)
Ukraine’s civilian death toll closer to 100,000 than 10,000 (Ukraine Explainers, X/twitter, 8 Dec)
Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans’ Rights votes for draft law which needed revision (Zmina, December 6th)
ZMINA offers Ministry of Internal Affairs assistance in verifying integrity of volunteers to prevent their prosecution (Zmina, December 5th)
‘Give me my bones’: Ukrainian families seek truth about missing soldiers (Open Democracy, Nov 27)
Analysis and comment
“We have to prove Putin wrong.” Interview with human rights defender Oleksandra Matviichuk. (Meduza, 8 December)
Donbas stand-off: the war in Ukraine so far (The Insider, 7 December)
Appeal To Olaf Scholz From Representatives Of Civil Society In Ukraine (Opora, December 5th)
When words become weapons: the risk to civilians from disinformation in Ukraine (Center for Civilians in Conflict, 2023)
The Carbon War: Accounting For The Global Proliferation Of Russian Fossil Fuels (Razom, 2023)
Research of human rights abuses
“Justice should not depend on how and when the hostilities end,” Roman Nekoliak at the HROMADA – The Nordic-Baltic Research Society conference in Oslo (Centre for Civil Liberties, December 7th)
‘Run forward. If you turn around, we'll shoot you’ (Tribunal for Putin, December 7th)
Russia has committed over five hundred crimes against Ukraine’s journalists and media outlets since 24 February 2023 (Tribunal for Putin, December 6th)
Four Russian soldiers charged with torturing American citizen in Ukraine by US Justice Department (Ukrainska Pravda, December 6th)
State does not have clear understanding of who war victims are – Alena Lunova (Zmina, Dec 6th)
Documenting War Crimes Committed by Russians: Journalism, Advocacy, Human Rights (Opora, December 1st)
War-related news from Russia
Foiled by Finland, Russia forces asylum seekers to fight its war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 8th)
Captive audience: how Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia are taught to love their new “fatherland” (Meduza, 6 December)
Show trial begins in Russia of 25-year-old Iryna Navalna (Tribunal for Putin, December 4th)
Interview with Grigory Sinchenko (Memorial Notion, 2023)
International solidarity
Mediating Ukraine article (Twitter, December 6th)
The OSCE 2023 Parallel Civil Society Conference in Skopje called for an end to the aggression against Ukraine (Centre for Civil Liberties, December 5th)
Medical Aid for Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 3 December)
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