In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Women anti-war prisoners in Russia.
⬤ Ukrainian institutional reform assessed.
war’s impact on social work in Ukraine.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russian occupation ‘court’ dissolves independent Crimean Tatar Muslim community, after imprisoning several members (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 25th)
Russia sentences Ukrainian to 18 years for refusing to fight against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 24th)
Russia is trumping up criminal cases against journalists in Crimea – Viktoria Nesterenko’s speech in Riga (Zmina, October 23rd)
Young Ukrainian from Russian-occupied Melitopol sentenced for 'inciting terrorism' over 2017 social media post against Putin (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 23rd)
Russia is trumping up criminal cases against journalists in Crimea – Viktoria Nesterenko’s speech in Riga (Zmina, October 23rd)
Russia tortures Ukrainian Hryhorii Sinchenko to force confession (Ukrainska Pravda, October 22nd)
Russia claims it ‘detained’ a young Ukrainian student on ‘spying charges’ two years after abducting her in Kherson region (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 22nd)
Human rights activists named 35 criminal officials in Crimea (Zmina, October 21st)
First Russia abducts and imprisons young Crimean Tatar, then it sentences his father on equally nonsensical charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 21st)
Mariupol only for the invaders. Russia changes street names to totally plunder Ukrainian owners (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 21st)
The situation at the front
Evacuation from Pokrovsk and Mirnohrad (Tribunal for Putin, October 24th)
Battlefield update: Ukraine suffers its hardest week this year (Meduza, 24 October)
News from Ukraine – general
“The system should be ready for the return of children right now,” said Onysiia Syniuk of ZMINA (Zmina, October 25th)
At least 12 Ukrainians held in Belarus prisons for political reasons (Ukrainska Pravda, 25 October)
“They are waiting for us”: The impact of the full-scale war on the working conditions of social workers (Cedos, October 24th)
How the war destroyed an orphanage (iStories, 23 October)
Zelenskyy met with civil society. Maksym Butkevych attended (Zmina, October 23rd)
Voices of Mariupol —a film by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 22nd)
Is Cohesion Between Different Groups of Ukrainians Decreasing? Study Findings (Opora, 22 October)
War-related news from Russia
Vladimir central: where anti-war prisoners are incarcerated (Solidarity Zone, 24 October)
Russia: women political prisoners in a system of violence (Posle.Media, 23 October)
Russian amy officer presents kindergarten with diorama of ruined Bakhmut (Meduza, 21 October)
Analysis and comment
Russia kills more Ukrainian POWs while UN Secretary-General wined and dined by Putin (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 25th)
Statement by NGOs on meeting between Antonio Guterres and Vladimir Putin (Crimea human rights group, 25 October)
Open letter from non-governmental organizations on the occasion of the Ministerial Conference on the Human Dimension of Ukraine’s 10-Point Peace Formula (Zmina, October 23rd)
‘Russia has problems’ – We asked 5 Ukrainian soldiers about North Korean troops fighting for Moscow (Kyiv Independent, October 21st)
Ten years of reforms: what was achieved and what challenges face Ukraine (Zmina, October 18th)
Research of human rights abuses
UN calls on Russia to confirm Ukrainian journalist’s death in custody (UN human rights commission, 23 October)
International solidarity
Deliveries of aid to eastern Ukraine (Solidarity Collectives, 25 October)
An activist’s story: “I will only stop if I go to prison or die” (Solidarity Zone, 20 October)
Upcoming events in London
Wednesday 30 October, 7.0pm:
Ukraine: civil society and labour in the third winter of Russia’s all-out war - A discussion with Serhii Guz, trade unionist and journalist - Marchmont Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB. Register on Eventbrite here, or just join us on the day.
A flyer for this event, organised by the Ukraine Information Group and the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, is attached.
Monday 18 November, 6.0pm:
“Political prisoners in Russia and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine”. Panel discussion with speakers from Memorial, Kharkhiv Human Rights Protection Group and others. Queen Mary University, London, Centre for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. Register here.
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