⬤ “fear and trembling in Kharkiv”.
⬤ European farmers’ protests and Ukraine.
⬤ Massive spike in Russia’s ‘List of Terrorists. Extremists’.
⬤ Plus more evidence of Russian torture and abuse of disabled and execution of surrendering soldiers.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Used as human shields, starved and under fire: The horrors people with disabilities face in Putin’s war (The Independent, May 4th)
Revenge imprisonment in Russia extended of young Crimean Tatar woman seized for trying to visit her gravely ill father (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 3rd)
‘I am guilty of loving Ukraine! ’ (Tribunal for Putin, May 1st)
Russia plans extra propaganda classes in occupied Ukraine to “correct flawed understanding of history” (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 1st)
Two years of unrelenting Russian torture of Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovich (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 1st)
Russians abduct and torture former Ukrainian policeman for fake ‘terrorism trial’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 29th)
Ukrainian journalist prosecuted in Russian-occupied Crimea over articles published by media banned as ‘undesirable organization’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 29th)
The situation at the front
Russians used ammunition with chemicals 444 times in April (Ukrainska Pravda, May 3rd)
U.S. accuses Russia of using chemical weapons in Ukraine (Meduza, May 2nd)
Fear and trembling in Kharkiv (Prospect, May 1st)
Attack on Odesa: Russians used ballistic missile, likely with cluster munition – photos (Ukrainska Pravda, April 29th)
News from Ukraine – general
Cedos welcomes the inclusion of social housing in EU Plan for the Ukraine Facility (Cedos, May 3rd)
Ukrainian trade unions’ May Day conference (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 2 May)
To see the light in the darkness: Psychologist’s office as part of human rights activity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 29th)
Russia’s Energy Infrastructure Attacks are Depopulating Ukraine (Kyiv Independent, 23 April)
War-related news from Russia
Help to file an appeal against Igor Paskar’s sentence! (Solidarity Zone, 5 May)
Massive spike in ‘List of Terrorists and Extremists’ as Russia persecutes critics of its war against Ukraine and LGBT (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 3rd)
Russia sentences Ukrainian to 25 years for ‘railway sabotage commissioned by Ukraine, Poland and Latvia’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 2nd)
Russian Socialist Movement banned. Socialism outlawed? (Posle Media, 1 May)
Putin’s Defector Obsession (Foreign Affairs, May 1st)
Refugees
‘I’m not ready to part with them’ These four Ukrainian families hoped to return home one day. Now all they have left of their homes is their keys (Meduza, May 2nd)
‘These people are trapped’. Ukrainian refugees are ending up homeless in Russia (Meduza, 30 April)
Analysis and comment
Stolen spring is a stolen life. Each photo is a personal tragedy (Twitter, May 3rd)
Wheat as a weapon: European farmers’ protests and the Ukraine war (People and Nature, April 30th)
Call for immediate ratification of the Rome Statute: ensuring justice for victims of war in Ukraine (Zmina, April 29th)
War is personal (Kochetova Rocks, 2024)
Research of human rights abuses
Approximately 28,000 Ukrainians have disappeared under special circumstances (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 5th)
‘There were people screaming in the destroyed houses and nobody was allowed to help them’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 3rd)
Russian Forces Executed Surrendering Ukraine Soldiers (Human Rights Watch, May 2nd)
'There was a cemetery here' — a resident of the village of Zahaltsi (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 1st)
The Unified Register of Persons Disappeared Under Special Circumstances has become operational in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 29th)
Upcoming solidarity events
Freedom for Maksym Butkevych: on line campaign event, Tuesday May 14th, 7.0pm UK time
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