In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Syrians’ solidarity with Ukraine.
⬤ Report on human rights abuses in Crimea.
⬤ Russia’s destruction of UNESCO site.
⬤ Repression of lawyers defending political prisoners.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia’s final brutality against imprisoned Ukrainian civic journalist Iryna Danilovych (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 2nd)
Ukrainian sentenced to 18 years for supposed ‘gas pipe sabotage’ in Russian-occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 2nd)
Ukrainian POW on ‘trial’ for defending Ukraine dies in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 1st)
‘The Russians deliberately took Ukrainian children out in groups’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 24th)
Three men abducted from Kherson oblast, tortured and ‘sentenced’ twice for Russian propaganda (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 1st)
Russia forcibly holding children from Luhansk Oblast in military camp near training ground in Novosibirsk Oblast (Ukrainska Pravda, July 31st)
Russia totally destroys Chersonese UNESCO site in grotesque attempt to justify Crimean occupation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 29th)
Ukrainian children as a human resource for Russia’s future war (Tribunal for Putin, July 28th)
Brutal Russian reprisals against prominent lawyer defending Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 26th)
Ukrainian DJ tortured and held hostage since early 2022 ‘for opposing Russia’s operation against Ukraine’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 26th)
Amnesty Urges War Crimes Probe of Landmines in Occupied Ukraine (Common Dreams, July 26th)
Ukrainian faces 9-year sentence in Russia on surreal ‘secret cooperation with Ukraine’ charge (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 25th)
Death by Russian imprisonment for monitoring repression in Crimea (Kharkiv HRPG, July 24th)
Russia demolishes last Ukrainian Orthodox church in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv HRPG, July 23rd)
Human rights defenders call for the release of seriously ill political prisoner Tofik Abdulhaziiev (Zmina, July 22nd)
Russia destroys monuments to Victims of Holodomor and Stalin’s Terror in occupied Luhansk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 22nd)
Three Ukrainians abducted and tortured by FSB on fake ‘terrorism’ charges (Kharkiv HRPG, July 22)
News from the front
The battlefield options for Russian and Ukraine in the months ahead (Meduza, 2 August)
Russian Drones are Hunting Civilians in Kherson (Byline Times, July 29th)
Mine Clearing In Ukraine: ‘Children Bring Them Home, Thinking They are Toys, and They Explode’ (Byline Times, July 25th)
Russian forces hit humanitarian deminers’ office (Confed’n of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 24 July)
Russia's Missile War Against Ukraine (European Resilience Initiative Centre, July 12th)
News from Ukraine – general
“I want to go to my people”: human rights activists are convinced that the project threatens the information security of Ukraine (Zmina, July 31st)
Among the most important values for Ukrainians during the war are freedom and security – research results (Zmina, July 29th)
All hands on deck: How Ukraine’s labour market copes with shortage of men (The Insider, July 26th)
Volunteers of Ukraine (Tribunal for Putin, July 26th)
The state should determine the only body to which Ukrainians can turn if their civilian relative has been abducted and is being held by Russia – human rights defenders (Zmina, July 25th)
Italy’s money for destroyed Cathedral of Odesa still blocked by UNESCO (Human Rights Without Frontiers, July 24th)
From the life of one church in Kharkiv (Tribunal for Putin, July 24th)
War-related news from Russia
The Score (about the prisoner swap) (The Russian Reader, 2 August)
“I see it as an illegal expulsion against my will” – freed Russian politician (Meduza, 2 August)
“The CO picked a bunch of nationalists and set up a punishment squad”: The Russian army’s gulag-style methods of abuse (The Insider, July 22nd)
Analysis and comment
Legislation on collaborationism does not comply with international humanitarian law and persecutes those trying to survive the occupation (Zmina, July 30th)
“Syrians Celebrate When Russian Generals, Involved in War Crimes in Syria, Are Being Killed in Ukraine”. Interview With Leila Al-Shami (Commons.com.ua, July 23rd)
Research of human rights abuses
Review: human rights situation in Crimea, April-June 2024 (Crimea Human Rights Group, 2 August)
‘He raised his machine gun and started shooting’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 31st)
Four Months of Hell – A Ukrainian POW Tells of Daily Russian Torture (Kyiv Post, July 21st)
International solidarity
Report for May and June (Solidarity Collectives on twitter, 31 July)
Supporters of the Ukraine Information Group joined Saturday’s big march in London, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, with our banner stating “From Ukraine to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime”. Photo and information here. We plan to take part in future marches: if you want to join us, let us know.
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