In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Unions condemn Russian attack on Ukraine’s mining region,
⬤ Plus hospital bombing.
⬤ Plus interview with children’s hospital doctor.
⬤ Plus interview with Palestinian-Ukrainian analyst.
⬤ Plus Investigation into Russian killing Ukrainian POWs.
⬤ Plus more evidence of Russian torture.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Ukraine initiates war crimes probe over gunning down by Russians of two Ukrainian prisoners of war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 12th)
Abducted, tortured and sentenced by Russian invaders for joining a Ukrainian organization in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
Russian terror in occupied areas of Ukraine: homes confiscated en masse (People & Nature, 9 July)
Interview with Refat Chubarov, head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis: ‘We must condemn communism’ — Refat Chubarov (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 9th)
Russia charges Ukrainian from occupied Melitopol with ‘calls to terrorism’ for old social media post about Putin (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 8th)
Ukrainian-born paediatrician faces long sentence on ‘fake news’ charge based on true words about Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 8th)
News from the front
A growing crisis: cracks appearing in Ukraine’s defences (Meduza, 12 July)
‘I told the Russians at the checkpoints that I was going to Azovstal’ (Tribunal for Putin, July 9th)
News from Ukraine – general
Interview with a doctor at Okhmatdyt hospital, Kyiv: ‘We can’t stop treatment, even for an hour’ (Meduza, 11 July)
Russia bombs children’s hospital while sentencing Ukrainian POWs to life ‘for killing civilians’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 11th)
Russia boasts of “strike objectives achieved’ as death toll rises from missile strikes on Ukraine’s main children’s hospital, other civilian targets (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 9th)
Wave of Russian missiles strike (UNHCR, July 9th)
Türk deplores wave of strikes killing dozens of civilians, including women and children at hospitals (UNHCR, July 8th)
Trade union statement: Russian missile attacks on children, hospital patients and workers (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 8 July)
Statement by the Ukraine 5AM Coalition on the Russian Federation’s missile attack on medical facilities and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine (Zmina, July 8th)
War-related news from Russia
Russia’s fascist meltdown: the Cliff Notes version (The Russian Reader, 12 July)
Russia's new 'elite': hired killers, murderers and violent rapists freed to fight against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 12th)
‘Our guys’: high military death rates in Buryatiya (Meduza, 11 July)
Russia attacks Ukraine’s mining region (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 9 July)
Analysis and comment
Analytical note following the public summit “Security Guarantees for Ukrainian Democracy in Times of War” (Opora, July 11th)
Interview: The war in Tigray and the scholar’s role (Commons.com.ua, 10 July)
“There Is Trauma on Both Sides of My Family but Historically They Don’t Meet”. Interview With Palestinian-Ukrainian Analyst Rita Adel (Commons.com.ua, July 9th)
Ukraine at a Turning Point: Imperialism, National Liberation, and Solidarity (Youtube, June 28th)
Resisting authoritarianism in the Caucasus (Tempest, June 5th)
International solidarity
Ukrainian mineworkers’ union delegation at the Durham Miners Gala (Mick Antoniw on twitter, 13 July)
July 15-19 — Ukrainian International Criminal Justice Week. Events Calendar (Centre for Civil Liberties, July 11th)
Fundraising campaign for vacuum wound therapy devices (Solidarity Collectives on twitter, 10 July)
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Ukraine initiates war crimes probe over gunning down by Russians of two Ukrainian prisoners of war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 12th)
Abducted, tortured and sentenced by Russian invaders for joining a Ukrainian organization in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
Russian terror in occupied areas of Ukraine: homes confiscated en masse (People & Nature, 9 July)
Interview with Refat Chubarov, head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis: ‘We must condemn communism’ — Refat Chubarov (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 9th)
Russia charges Ukrainian from occupied Melitopol with ‘calls to terrorism’ for old social media post about Putin (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 8th)
Ukrainian-born paediatrician faces long sentence on ‘fake news’ charge based on true words about Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 8th)
News from the front
A growing crisis: cracks appearing in Ukraine’s defences (Meduza, 12 July)
‘I told the Russians at the checkpoints that I was going to Azovstal’ (Tribunal for Putin, July 9th)
News from Ukraine – general
Interview with a doctor at Okhmatdyt hospital, Kyiv: ‘We can’t stop treatment, even for an hour’ (Meduza, 11 July)
Russia bombs children’s hospital while sentencing Ukrainian POWs to life ‘for killing civilians’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 11th)
Russia boasts of “strike objectives achieved’ as death toll rises from missile strikes on Ukraine’s main children’s hospital, other civilian targets (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 9th)
Wave of Russian missiles strike (UNHCR, July 9th)
Türk deplores wave of strikes killing dozens of civilians, including women and children at hospitals (UNHCR, July 8th)
Trade union statement: Russian missile attacks on children, hospital patients and workers (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 8 July)
Statement by the Ukraine 5AM Coalition on the Russian Federation’s missile attack on medical facilities and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine (Zmina, July 8th)
War-related news from Russia
Russia’s fascist meltdown: the Cliff Notes version (The Russian Reader, 12 July)
Russia's new 'elite': hired killers, murderers and violent rapists freed to fight against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 12th)
‘Our guys’: high military death rates in Buryatiya (Meduza, 11 July)
Russia attacks Ukraine’s mining region (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 9 July)
Analysis and comment
Analytical note following the public summit “Security Guarantees for Ukrainian Democracy in Times of War” (Opora, July 11th)
Interview: The war in Tigray and the scholar’s role (Commons.com.ua, 10 July)
“There Is Trauma on Both Sides of My Family but Historically They Don’t Meet”. Interview With Palestinian-Ukrainian Analyst Rita Adel (Commons.com.ua, July 9th)
Ukraine at a Turning Point: Imperialism, National Liberation, and Solidarity (Youtube, June 28th)
Resisting authoritarianism in the Caucasus (Tempest, June 5th)
International solidarity
Ukrainian mineworkers’ union delegation at the Durham Miners Gala (Mick Antoniw on twitter, 13 July)
July 15-19 — Ukrainian International Criminal Justice Week. Events Calendar (Centre for Civil Liberties, July 11th)
Fundraising campaign for vacuum wound therapy devices (Solidarity Collectives on twitter, 10 July)
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