In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Russia used US banks to dodge sanctions.
⬤ Private military companies at war.
⬤ Crimean 2024 human rights report.
⬤ Further evidence of Russian torture, execution of prisoners, fabrication of evidence and withholding of medical aid in occupied areas
⬤ New wave of detentions in Crimea.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Young people who have quit the occupied areas: “It’s like being freed from a horrible stench” (Ukrainska Pravda, 9 February)
Stadiums under occupation: sports facilities in Donbas today (Ukrainska Pravda, 7 February)
Russia uses medical torture to fabricate its 'trial' of disabled 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
Russians refuse to sell insulin and other vital medicines to Ukrainians without Russian passports, reports Ukrainian intelligence (Ukrainska Pravda, February 7th)
How can Ukraine solve the problem of documents from the occupied territories? Human rights defenders share their vision with international partners (Zmina, February 7th)
A janitor, a cook, an informer — who is being tried for collaborating with the enemy? (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Russian FSB carry out new terror raids and arrests by quota in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Human rights and humanitarian legal norms: 2024 review (Crimea Human Rights Group, 5 February)
Viktor Dzytsiuk was almost tortured to death in occupied Donbas. Now Russia is continuing his torment (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
ZMINA took part in a discussion on the cultural decolonisation of Crimea (Zmina, February 4th)
Russian FSB uses shoddily faked video to charge 63-year-old woman abducted from occupied Ukraine with ‘terrorism’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 3rd)
First prosecution in Crimea for “childfree propaganda” (Crimea Human Rights Group, 2 February)
The situation at the front
Russian forces advance on Pokrovsk (Meduza, 5 February)
News from Ukraine – general
Support for war victims: human rights defenders presented new roadmap of draft laws (Zmina, February 5th)
Defying Odds In Ukraine (They Said So, February 4th)
Ukrainian Holocaust survivor: Hitler wanted to kill me as a Jew. Putin is trying to kill me because I’m Ukrainian (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 3rd)
How Ukraine lost faith in the Red Cross and UN (Kyiv Independent, January 22nd)
Ukraine: Bikis, our feminist year (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, January 20th)
Ukraine: And yet he remained a human (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, January 4th)
War-related news from Russia
Draft exemptions as Russians know them are ending (Meduza, 6 February)
Rebranding private military companies for the war in Ukraine (Posle.media, 5 February)
Support fundraisers for Solidarity Zone’s recipients in court (Solidarity Zone, 5 February)
Russia used US banks to send billions to Turkey, dodging sanctions (Kyiv Independent, February 3rd)
The Russian far right: “an affinity for violence brings them together” (Posle.media, 29 January)
Analysis and comment
US Aid, Russia and Ukraine (The Russian Reader, 4 February)
A girl from the burnt village: the story of Maria Nevmerzhytska (Commons.com.ua, 3 February)
Statement by human rights organisations: another wave of searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars (Crimean Human Rights Group, 2 February)
Research of human rights abuses
Prison medicine: ways to humanize it (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
UN monitors report sharp increase in executions of Ukrainian POWs, and point to Russian officials’ effective incitement to kill (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
The Centre for Civil Liberties Participated in the First World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 6th)
“I Urge You to Make Every Effort to Release Ukrainian Prisoners of War And Unlawfully Detained Civilians ” Maksym Butkevych at the UN Security Council (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 6th)
“Crimes Against Peaceful Civilians Warrant Your Action” The Center for Civil Liberties Appealed to PACE Members (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 6th)
Upcoming events
Saturday 15 February, 11.0 am — 4.0 pm, Conference: End the Russian invasion and occupation. National Education Union, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD. Register here.
Saturday 15 February, 11.0 am – Palestine solidarity demo. To join the Ukraine-Palestine solidarity contingent, with our banner, "From Ukraine to Palestine – Occupation is a crime", meet outside Banqueting Hall, corner of Whitehall and Horseguard Avenue, London SW1A
Saturday 22 February, 12.00 , Demonstrate at the Russian embassy. Assemble 12 noon – St Volodymyr statue, W11 3QY Rally 1pm – Russian embassy, W8 4QP. Flyers are available for distribution – email info@ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org and ask for them.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Young people who have quit the occupied areas: “It’s like being freed from a horrible stench” (Ukrainska Pravda, 9 February)
Stadiums under occupation: sports facilities in Donbas today (Ukrainska Pravda, 7 February)
Russia uses medical torture to fabricate its 'trial' of disabled 74-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
Russians refuse to sell insulin and other vital medicines to Ukrainians without Russian passports, reports Ukrainian intelligence (Ukrainska Pravda, February 7th)
How can Ukraine solve the problem of documents from the occupied territories? Human rights defenders share their vision with international partners (Zmina, February 7th)
A janitor, a cook, an informer — who is being tried for collaborating with the enemy? (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Russian FSB carry out new terror raids and arrests by quota in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
Human rights and humanitarian legal norms: 2024 review (Crimea Human Rights Group, 5 February)
Viktor Dzytsiuk was almost tortured to death in occupied Donbas. Now Russia is continuing his torment (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
ZMINA took part in a discussion on the cultural decolonisation of Crimea (Zmina, February 4th)
Russian FSB uses shoddily faked video to charge 63-year-old woman abducted from occupied Ukraine with ‘terrorism’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 3rd)
First prosecution in Crimea for “childfree propaganda” (Crimea Human Rights Group, 2 February)
The situation at the front
Russian forces advance on Pokrovsk (Meduza, 5 February)
News from Ukraine – general
Support for war victims: human rights defenders presented new roadmap of draft laws (Zmina, February 5th)
Defying Odds In Ukraine (They Said So, February 4th)
Ukrainian Holocaust survivor: Hitler wanted to kill me as a Jew. Putin is trying to kill me because I’m Ukrainian (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 3rd)
How Ukraine lost faith in the Red Cross and UN (Kyiv Independent, January 22nd)
Ukraine: Bikis, our feminist year (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, January 20th)
Ukraine: And yet he remained a human (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, January 4th)
War-related news from Russia
Draft exemptions as Russians know them are ending (Meduza, 6 February)
Rebranding private military companies for the war in Ukraine (Posle.media, 5 February)
Support fundraisers for Solidarity Zone’s recipients in court (Solidarity Zone, 5 February)
Russia used US banks to send billions to Turkey, dodging sanctions (Kyiv Independent, February 3rd)
The Russian far right: “an affinity for violence brings them together” (Posle.media, 29 January)
Analysis and comment
US Aid, Russia and Ukraine (The Russian Reader, 4 February)
A girl from the burnt village: the story of Maria Nevmerzhytska (Commons.com.ua, 3 February)
Statement by human rights organisations: another wave of searches and detentions of Crimean Tatars (Crimean Human Rights Group, 2 February)
Research of human rights abuses
Prison medicine: ways to humanize it (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
UN monitors report sharp increase in executions of Ukrainian POWs, and point to Russian officials’ effective incitement to kill (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 7th)
The Centre for Civil Liberties Participated in the First World Congress on Enforced Disappearances (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 6th)
“I Urge You to Make Every Effort to Release Ukrainian Prisoners of War And Unlawfully Detained Civilians ” Maksym Butkevych at the UN Security Council (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 6th)
“Crimes Against Peaceful Civilians Warrant Your Action” The Center for Civil Liberties Appealed to PACE Members (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 6th)
Upcoming events
Saturday 15 February, 11.0 am — 4.0 pm, Conference: End the Russian invasion and occupation. National Education Union, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD. Register here.
Saturday 15 February, 11.0 am – Palestine solidarity demo. To join the Ukraine-Palestine solidarity contingent, with our banner, "From Ukraine to Palestine – Occupation is a crime", meet outside Banqueting Hall, corner of Whitehall and Horseguard Avenue, London SW1A
Saturday 22 February, 12.00 , Demonstrate at the Russian embassy. Assemble 12 noon – St Volodymyr statue, W11 3QY Rally 1pm – Russian embassy, W8 4QP. Flyers are available for distribution – email info@ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org and ask for them.
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🔴This bulletin is put together by labour movement activists in solidarity with Ukrainian resistance. More information at Ukraine Information Group.
We are also on twitter. Our aim is to circulate information in English that to the best of our knowledge is reliable. If you have something you think we should include, please send it to 2U022ukrainesolidarity@gmail.com.
We are now on Facebook and Substack! Please subscribe and tell friends. Better still, people can email us at 2022ukrainesolidarity@gmail.com, and we’ll send them the bulletin direct every Monday. The full-scale Russian assault on Ukraine is going into its third year: we’ll keep information and analysis coming, for as long as it takes.
The bulletin is also stored on line here.
To receive the bulletin regularly, send your email to:
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To stop it, please reply with the word “STOP” in the subject field.
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