In this week’s bulletin
⬤ more evidence of Russian abduction and probable torture – new evidence.
⬤ confiscation of homes and refusal of services. ⬤ other violations.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
16-year ‘sentence’ in occupied Luhansk oblast for opposing Russian invasion of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 27th)
Young Crimean Tatar gets 12-year sentence for non-existent plan to attack Russian puppet ‘minister’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 26th)
Ongoing terror as Russia passes grotesque 'sentence' against abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 25th)
How Ukraine recruits and trains undercover agents to carry out missions in Russian-occupied territories (Meduza September 24th)
Russia’s eastern Ukraine reconstruction work relies on sketchy job recruitment and exploitative labor practices (Meduza September 24th)
Take the Russian invaders’ citizenship or starve in occupied parts of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 23rd)
The situation at the front
Weekly Ukraine war summary: Urban fighting in Vuhledar, Russian forces rush to the Oskil River, AFU recaptures aggregate plant in Vovchansk (The Insider September 28th)
With manpower running thin on both sides Russia targets Ukraine’s supply lines in Donbas and Kursk regions (Meduza September 23rd)
News from Ukraine – general
Russians strike apartment buildings in Kharkiv, killing and wounding residents – photo (Ukrainska Pravda September 24th)
War-related news from Russia
Putin and what army? Why Russia keeps putting off mobilization (The Insider September 27th)
Gruesome murders as ‘collateral damage’ in Russia’s use of criminals for war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 27th)
Friendly Fire (Russian Reader, September 27th)
“How do they make us sign contracts? They stick needles under our fingernails”: Wounded Russian soldiers forced back into the fight (The Insider, September 25th)
Convicted Murderers Fought in Ukraine and Returned to Russia as Heroes (New Lines, September 24th)
As rumors swirl about Russia’s next mobilization drive, Meduza’s sources say the Kremlin is still weighing it’s options (Meduza September 24th)
Who runs one of the most popular pro-war Telegram channels (IStories September 24th)
News from the territories occupied by Russia
16-year ‘sentence’ in occupied Luhansk oblast for opposing Russian invasion of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 27th)
Young Crimean Tatar gets 12-year sentence for non-existent plan to attack Russian puppet ‘minister’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 26th)
Ongoing terror as Russia passes grotesque 'sentence' against abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 25th)
How Ukraine recruits and trains undercover agents to carry out missions in Russian-occupied territories (Meduza September 24th)
Russia’s eastern Ukraine reconstruction work relies on sketchy job recruitment and exploitative labor practices (Meduza September 24th)
Take the Russian invaders’ citizenship or starve in occupied parts of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 23rd)
The situation at the front
Weekly Ukraine war summary: Urban fighting in Vuhledar, Russian forces rush to the Oskil River, AFU recaptures aggregate plant in Vovchansk (The Insider September 28th)
With manpower running thin on both sides Russia targets Ukraine’s supply lines in Donbas and Kursk regions (Meduza September 23rd)
News from Ukraine – general
Russians strike apartment buildings in Kharkiv, killing and wounding residents – photo (Ukrainska Pravda September 24th)
War-related news from Russia
Putin and what army? Why Russia keeps putting off mobilization (The Insider September 27th)
Gruesome murders as ‘collateral damage’ in Russia’s use of criminals for war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 27th)
Friendly Fire (Russian Reader, September 27th)
“How do they make us sign contracts? They stick needles under our fingernails”: Wounded Russian soldiers forced back into the fight (The Insider, September 25th)
Convicted Murderers Fought in Ukraine and Returned to Russia as Heroes (New Lines, September 24th)
As rumors swirl about Russia’s next mobilization drive, Meduza’s sources say the Kremlin is still weighing it’s options (Meduza September 24th)
Who runs one of the most popular pro-war Telegram channels (IStories September 24th)
Analysis and comment
How many Russian Civilians are living in Ukrainian-held parts of the Kursk region? Moscow won't say – so we used open sources to estimate (Meduza September 27th)
The oily way: Сracking down on Russia's crude sanction workarounds (The Insider, September 26th)
“Evidence-based Recovery and Cohesion Lab” - We are launching a new project (Cedos September 26th)
CRPF: Does the "Party of the Past" have a future? (Posle September 25th)
The global labour movement must hold Russia accountable for war crimes against Ukrainian workers (USC September 24th)
How not to lose faith after ten years of war – opinions of human rights defenders (Zmina September 23rd)
Research of human rights abuses
Tortures of Ukrainian POWs and illegally detained civilians in Russian captivity: side event on what the CoE can do to stop it (Zmina September 26th)
ZMINA will voice the human rights violations in the occupied Crimea during the UN Human Rights Council (Zmina September 25th)
Role of the Belarusian regime in displacing, re-educating and militarizing Ukrainian children will be discussed at the OSCE (Zmina September 25th)
Side event at the OSCE Conference in Warsaw: 10 years of the occupation of Ukrainian Crimea and resistance to the Russian aggression (Zmina September 25th)
Experts of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances Commend Ukraine’s Law on Missing Persons in Special Circumstances, Ask Questions on Secret Detentions and the Forced Transfer of Children to the Russian Federation (UNHCR, September 24th)
Russia fabricates massive sentences against Ukrainian POWs, accusing them of its carnage and devastation in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 24th)
"He did not survive the torture". Eight Ukrainian soldiers who died in Russian captivity remembered (Ukrainska Pravda September 24th)
Occupation ‘court’ finds Russia’s brutal violation of Crimean Tatar political prisoner’s rights unlawful (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group September 23rd)
UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine finds additional evidence of common patterns of torture by Russian authorities (UNHCR, September 23rd)
Statement of human rights organizations regarding the illegal imprisonment of the blind Oleksander Sizikov in the occupied Crimea (KrymSOS September 18th)
John Hall, JD ’00, Reports on His Nine Weeks in Ukraine Gathering War Crimes Evidence (Stanford Lawyer, August 29th)
International solidarity
Oleksandra Matviichuk initiated an appeal to terminate Russia’s membership in the UN General Assembly, which was supported by more than 20 diplomats from Latin America (Centre for Civil Liberties September 23rd)
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