In this week’s bulletin
⬤ an antifascist who joined Ukraine’s army.
⬤ Statement: humanitarian issues in occupied areas.
⬤ former POW Maksym Butkevych.
⬤ Russian propaganda in Germany.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
18-year-old escapes Russian-occupied Luhansk in search of “Ukraine and freedom” (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 4th)
Russia forcibly disappears young Ukrainian from occupied Kherson oblast, then fabricates ‘trial’ and 18-year sentence (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 4th)
Desperate SOS as Russia upholds brutally cynical sentence against abducted Kherson activist Iryna Horobtsova (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 3rd)
Ukrainian political prisoners forced through torture to reject lawyers and to sing Russian anthem (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 2nd)
Entire Ukrainian family seized in latest Russian terror in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 1st)
Crimean sentenced to 15 years for donation to rescue children from Russian-occupied territory (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 31st)
In Kyiv, human rights defenders and international partners discussed prospects of peace negotiations for residents of the occupied territories (Zmina, March 29th)
The situation at the front
Weekly war summary: strike on Krivy Rih, Russian Zaporizhzhia offensive slows (The Insider, 5 April)
News from Ukraine
Exactly three years ago, my friend Denis Matsola and his friend Vlad Zhuravlev fell into the hands of the occupier (Hanna Perekhoda, Facebook, April 4th)
Ukraine brings back 11 more children from occupied areas and Russia (Ukrainska Pravda, April 3rd)
NAOMA: history and lessons of student struggle (Commons.com.ua, 20 March)
Choices – the story of a Ukrainian anti-fascist (Takku, 20 March)
War-related news from Russia
A Great friendship? Russian propaganda and the Bundestag elections (Posle.media, 2 April)
Kirill Medvedev and Oleg Zhuravlev: Russia’s (post) war future (The Russian Reader, 1 April)
Analysis and comment
UN human rights chief denounces Russian attack that kills nine children (UN Human Rights Commissioner, 6 April)
Statement: the need to consider humanitarian issues in the occupied territories during negotiations (Crimea Human Rights Group, 2 April)
Maksim Butkevych: my military service was a joke - but then I had to use it (BBC, April 2nd)
Research of war crimes and human rights abuses
UN Committee against Torture to review Ukraine (UNHCR, April 3rd)
Alena Lunova in The Hague: Ukraine already has its own experience in building a system of search for missing persons (Zmina, April 3rd)
Representatives of the Center for Civil Liberties met the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (Centre for Civil Liberties, April 3rd)
«Help us save people, the human rights system and the world». Oleksandra Romantsova during the side event at the UN Human Rights Council (Centre for Civil Liberties, April 3rd)
«Any negotiations should start with discussing the release of people unlawfully detained in Russia». Oleksandra Romantsova at the European Parliament (Centre for Civil Liberties, April 3rd)
Russia’s supreme court supports abduction, torture and lawless sentence against Ukrainian journalist Serhiy Tsyhipa (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 31st)
Russia is using the justice system to persecute Ukrainians: ZMINA together with the MIHR presented a research (Zmina, March 31st)
International solidarity
Report on solidarity week 2025 (Solidarity Collectives, 4 April)
Upcoming events
Wednesday, May 7 · 3 – 5pm, War and Peace in Ukraine, Clerici Building G.21, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
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