⬤ Plus could 2022 peace talks have succeeded?.
⬤ Plus early years of Russian invasion;
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russians bring propaganda dictionaries to schools in occupied Luhansk (Ukrainska Pravda, April 21st)
Horrific sentences against Ukrainians accused of ‘international terrorism’ for opposing Russian occupation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 19th)
Russian occupation ‘court’ convicts Jehovah’s Witness of ‘extremism’ for reading excerpts from the Bible (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 18th)
Ukrainians in occupation are under constant pressure and do not understand what awaits them after the liberation of the territories – Onysiia Syniuk (Zmina, April 17th)
Ukrainian children brainwashed in Russia’s ‘Youth Army’ into wanting to fight against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 17th)
Crimean Tatar political prisoner diagnosed with tuberculosis, other life-threatening conditions contracted in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 16th)
Solo ‘trials’ after Russia stages mass arrests claiming Ukrainian attack on Crimean occupation officials (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 16th)
Russian invaders turn Kherson oblast culture centre into torture chamber for ‘unreliable’ Ukrainians (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 15th)
Russia incriminates itself through ‘trial’ of Ukrainian abducted 7 years ago in occupied Donbas (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 15th)
News from Ukraine – general
Ukraine's Human Rights Commissioner reveals how many Ukrainians are missing under special circumstances (Ukrainska Pravda, April 16th)
Tetiana Pechonchyk presented a manual from the CJE on self-regulation of Ukrainian media during the war (Zmina, April 16th)
“Dying isn’t as bad as being a Russian POW”: Freed Ukrainian soldiers speak out about their time in Russian captivity (The Insider, April 15th)
War-related news from Russia
Russia's meat grinder soldiers - 50,000 confirmed dead (BBC, April 18th)
‘Business as usual’ How some E.U. companies are sending Russia parts for warships, sanctions be damned (Meduza, April 16th)
Russian Activist Who Helped Ukrainian Refugees Dies in Custody (Moscow Times, April 8th)
Analysis and comment
Brave New Ukraine: How the World’s Most Besieged Democracy Is Adjusting to Permanent War (Foreign Affairs, April 19th)
Quid prodest? What happened in the early years of Russian aggression against Ukraine? (Posle Media, 18 April)
The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine (Foreign Affairs, April 16th)
Anarchists should not be spreading Putinist propaganda (Autonom, February 10th)
Research of human rights abuses
‘Words cannot express what we experienced,’ — a resident of the village of Zahaltsi (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 21st)
Strategic threat in the Strategic Plan (Tribunal for Putin, April 21st)
Anniversary of the arrest warrants for Putin and Lvova-Belova for deportation of Ukrainian children: What did it bring and what happens next? (Opora, April 19th)
Forced disappearances in the Kharkiv Region: analytical review (Tribunal for Putin, April 18th)
Stories of victims of enforced disappearances were heard at the PACE session in Strasbourg (Zmina, April 18th)
Speech at the opening of the Fourth Readings in memory of Arseniy Roginsky (Tribunal for Putin, April 14th)
International solidarity
Ukrainian unions’ urgent joint appeal on amplified Russian aggression (19 April)
Support the fundraiser for Ilya Baburin’s legal defence! (Solidarity Zone, 17 April)
Upcoming solidarity events
UCU members for Ukraine webinar: Ukraine’s economy and post-war reconstruction, Thursday 25 April, 7.0pm UK time.
Freedom for Maksym Butkevych: on line campaign event, Tuesday May 14th, 7.0pm UK time
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russian traffic police used for enforced disappearances and FSB terror in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 12th)
‘He called to set Kremlin on fire’ (Tribunal for Putin, April 12th)
Crimean Tatar imprisoned for refusal to ‘publicly repent’ protest over Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 11th)
Russia admits to holding Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Khyliuk (Kharkiv HRPG, April 9th)
Russia sentences abducted Ukrainian Baptist volunteer to 20 years on insane ‘terrorism’ and ‘spying’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 8th)
How Russia cracked down on the LGBTQ+ community in Crimea (Zmina, April 7th)
The situation at the front
Ukraine could face defeat in 2024. Here's how that might look (BBC, April 13th)
Tanks but no tanks Russia makes breakthroughs along the front line in Ukraine, but its equipment losses could be a point of vulnerability (Meduza, April 9th)
News from Ukraine – general
Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers mission to the front (12 April, Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine)
Children of the Underground: How Kharkiv’s schoolchildren study in the subway amidst constant Russian shelling (The Insider, April 12th)
Over 600 civilians killed and injured by Russians in March (Ukrainska Pravda, April 10th)
Ukrainian medical students fight for their rights (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, April 9th)
Roma also defend the country and suffer from the war – Tetiana Pechonchyk (Zmina, April 8th)
Ukraine initiates war crimes probe after Russians kill unarmed Ukrainian POWs in Kherson oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 8th)
In Kyiv, human rights defenders discussed with international organisations the necessary steps for Ukraine to protect victims of the war (Zmina, April 5th)
A theatre from Mariupol is being reborn in Ukraine, the director of which ZMINA helped take out of the occupation (Zmina, April 4th)
War-related news from Russia
‘Children behind bars’ Russian minor detained for anti-war statements (Meduza, April 12th)
Volunteers (including one who helped Ukrainians cross the border) (The Russian Reader, 12 April)
A Russian soldier’s story: ‘He had no chance’ (Meduza, 10 April)
Russia’s propaganda lies to accuse Ukraine of its own terrorism (Kharkiv HRPG, April 10th)
How Russia manufactures FPV drones to kill Ukrainians (The Insider, 9 April)
Russia recruited women prisoners to fight in Ukraine. Six months later, they’re waiting to be deployed (Meduza, April 9th)
Speech from the dock by Azat Miftakhov, Russian political prisoner (The Russian Reader, 31 March)
The Russian Orthodox Church Declares “Holy War” Against Ukraine (Understanding War, March 30th)
Analysis and comment
“If we didn’t join the armed forces, the left in Ukraine would cease to exist,” says Taras Bilous (Europe Solidaire, April 13th)
Leaving Ukraine unable to defend its skies makes Russian invasion of other countries a question of time (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 12th)
Dmytro Vovk: Is it possible to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church? (Kharkiv HRPG, April 12th)
“Ukraine is much closer to those countries that undergo transformation processes” Oleksandra Romantsova speaks about event she attended in South Africa (Centre for Civil Liberties, April 10th)
«Democracies have to support each other even stronger» – Oleksandra Matviichuk at Nobel Prize Dialogue Brussels (Centre for Civil Liberties, April 9th)
Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires (People and Nature, April 8th)
No path to peace in Ukraine through this fantasy world (People and Nature, April 8th)
Ukraine in the Russian imagination (Hanna Perekhoda, Ukraine Solidarity EU, April 2nd)
Ukrainian authorities’ legitimacy when elections are impossible (Opora, April 2nd)
Research of human rights abuses
‘I saw a plane drop a bomb on my house’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 12th)
‘240 houses were razed to the ground, and 700 were damaged’ — resident of the village of Zahaltsi (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 10th)
Upcoming solidarity events
UCU members for Ukraine webinar: Ukraine’s economy and post-war reconstruction, Thursday 25 April, 7.0pm UK time.
Freedom for Maksym Butkevych: on line campaign event, Tuesday May 14th, 7.0pm UK time
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