A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 4-March-2024.
⬤ Unravelling Russian state anxieties.
⬤ Russia’s decolonial movement.
⬤ The forced removal of Ukrainian children.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia's youngest Ukrainian political prisoner convicted of ‘justifying terrorism’ in social media posts written by Russia’s FSB (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 1st)
18-year-old Russian imprisoned for Shevchenko poem on anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 1st)
“Children are the present and the future for which Ukraine is fighting”: forced removal and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia condemned (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 29th)
Crimean blogger sentenced to 2.5 years for 'showing disrespect for Russia's military glory' (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 29th)
Priority steps to protect human rights in context of large scale aggression (Crimea SOS, 28 February)
Russia’s killings of Ukrainian prisoners of war are likely state-approved war crimes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 28th)
Sentenced to 17 years in Siberia for opposing Russia's invasion and affirming that Crimea is Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 27th)
In Vinnytsia, students were discussing the history of the Crimean Tatar people and their life under occupation (Zmina, February 27th)
10th anniversary statement on Crimea’s resistance to Russian occupation (Zmina, February 26th)
Execution or Siberian labour camp for opposing Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 26th)
Son of Crimean Tatar political prisoner dies, deprived by Russia of his father in life and in death (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 26th)
Imprisoned in Russia for the Struggle for Ukrainian Crimea. Remembering the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of Crimea (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 26th)
Partisans Claim 'Important Moscow Guests' Poisoned to Death in Mariupol (Kyiv Post, Feb 22nd)
News from Ukraine – general
Two infants and toddler among dead after Russian strike on Ukraine’s Odesa (Meduza, March 3rd)
With Ukraine's Coal Miners at War, Women Step In To Fuel The Nation (Worldcrunch, March 1st)
All’s fair in art and war: Russia’s plunder of Ukrainian museums (The Insider, 29 February)
Two Years of Full-Scale War: challenges, priorities, further support (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 27 February)
War-related news from Russia
Together we raised €3500 for Ruslan Siddiqui’s defence (Solidarity Zone, 3 March)
‘Not Russia’s little brother any more’: Russia’s decolonial movement banks on interethnic solidarity (Meduza, 1 March)
Freedom to Oleg Orlov! (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 1st)
Eggs and war economy, by Uladzimir Sazonau (Posle.media, 28 February)
Russian Socialist Movement’s Kirill Medvedev on why Putin killed Alexei Navalny and jailed Boris Kagarlitsky (Links, February 27th)
Statement by Human Rights Groups on the Unjust Verdict and Sentence in Politically Motivated Case Against Russian Human Rights Defender Oleg Orlov (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 27th)
Analysis and comment
‘Both west and east want to see Putin held accountable’: interview with Patryk Labuda (Commons.com.ua, 27 February)
Unravelling Russian state anxieties, by Hanna Perekhoda (Posle.media, 24 February)
Two years of normalising evil: lessons from Ukraine (East Anglia Bylines, February 24th)
Pyrrhic victories and crickets chirping in the graveyard (EUvsDivision, February 22nd)
Research of human rights abuses
Russia-Ukraine war: what does filtration mean? (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 1 March)
Prepare rather than wait: What should the international tribunal on Ukraine look like, and who will stand trial? (The Insider, February 26th)
International solidarity
Ukraine war: Welsh miners in country to repay 1984 help (BBC, February 26th)
Ukrainian Renaissance exhibition: art, craft and history at Worthing Museum (Sussex Bylines, February 25th)
Upcoming solidarity actions in the UK
Thursday 7 March, 8.0pm, Fundraiser Showing of 20 Days in Mariupol at The Garden Cinema, London- for for a hospital in a mining region of Ukraine to assist with the rehabilitation of casualties .
Saturday 9 March, 17.00 UK time. On-line meeting with Ukrainian feminist activists, organised by the European Network in Solidarity With Ukraine.
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