In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Ukraine and Palestine – Public discussion meeting on 11 June.
⬤ Ukrainian agriculture in wartime; 80th anniversary of deportation of Crimean Tatars.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia bribes soldiers with land plundered from real owners in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 24th)
Ukrainian scientist banned from occupied Crimea and his elderly mother in reprisal for refusing Russian citizenship (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 24th)
Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffers heart attack in torture-like Russian prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 23rd)
Crimean Tatar activist Rustem Seitmemetov, who was illegally sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Russian occupiers, underwent surgery after suffering a heart attack (X, May 23rd)
Crimean sentenced to 5 years for Ukrainian Yellow Ribbon activism against Russian occupation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 22nd)
A Tatar gift: On the 80th anniversary of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars (The Insider, 21 May)
Russia sentences Crimean to 8 years on 'treason' and 'terrorism' charges for wanting to defend Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 21st)
Abducted Crimean Tatar political prisoner tortured in Russian prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 21st)
Crimean Tatar newspaper editor prosecuted for telling Crimeans not to fight Russia's war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 20th)
The situation at the front
Death toll mounts as Russia bombs shoppers, rescuers and Ukrainian publisher in Kharkiv (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 26th)
Julia Stakhivska: books in the firing line in Ukraine (The Russian Reader, 26 May)
Displaced civilians describe terrifying Russian attacks in north-eastern border areas (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, May 24th)
‘A helicopter is flying, I look — a rocket is heading towards us...’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 24th)
‘We will be in Ukraine until the end,’ a Canadian volunteer says in Kharkiv (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 21st)
Russians gun down disabled Ukrainian woman in wheelchair in savage offensive against Kharkiv oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 20th)
Russia's glide bombs devastating Ukraine's cities on the cheap (BBC, May 19th)
News from Ukraine – general
Post-war problems: Journalist Konstantin Skorkin on the key stumbling blocks for rebuilding Ukraine — and why money isn’t the biggest one (Meduza, May 24th)
Land reform and agriculture in Ukraine during wartime – interview with Dr. Natalia Mamonova (Commons.com, May 23rd)
Ukrainian unionists: Oligarchs, not Europe’s poor, should pay for weapons and aid to Ukraine (Green Left, May 23rd)
‘Now is not the time’ - Zelensky’s term should have ended on May 20. Here’s how Ukrainians feel about him staying in power without an election (Meduza, May 21st)
Every tenth school in Ukraine suffered from the war (Tribunal for Putin, May 20th)
War-related news from Russia
Death metal: Russian defence ministry contractor’s corrupt European connections (The Insider, 27 May)
Russia: Putin is using terror laws to crush anti-war dissent (Green Left, May 24th)
New trumped-up criminal charges against opposition activist Alexander Skobov (The Russian Reader, 19 May)
International solidarity
European elections: justice for Ukrainian workers! (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 24 May)
UNISON must stand with Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 23 May)
Building Ukraine-Palestine solidarity (The Fire These Times podcast, 5 May)
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