In this week’s bulletin
⬤ more evidence of enforced disappearances and the persecution of journalists.
⬤ Russia’s property seizures.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia intensifies plunder in policy to bring in Russians and eliminate Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 18th)
Chilling silence 13 months after enforced disappearance of Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 18th)
Russia seizing thousands of homes in occupied Mariupol (BBC, April 17th)
'Territories are first and foremost people:’ Zaporizhzhia, Kherson residents anxiously watch Witkoff debate the land they live on (Kyiv Independent, April 17th)
Russia sentences another Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee to 14 years for supporting Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 16th)
Bakhmut 2025: Unmanned Systems Forces capture footage of the destroyed Ukrainian city (Unmanned Systems Forces, April 16th)
Ukraine frees abducted teacher after four years of torment in Russian-occupied Donetsk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 15th)
Russia passes copy-pasted 12-year ‘spying sentence almost three years after abducting Ukrainian teenager (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 14th)
The situation at the front
Moscow’s Spring Offensive Begins: Russian forces launch their first major operation since the battle for Sudzha with a thrust towards Kostiantynivka (Medusza April 15th)
‘All Russia Fed Us Are Lies’ – Captured Chinese POWs Recall Frontline Experience (Kyiv Post, April 14th)
`Once again Russia has brought death’: Photos of the aftermath of Moscow’s deadly Palm Sunday missile strike on central Sumy (Medusza April 14th)
News from Ukraine
We demand a prompt investigation: statement regarding the attack on journalist Yurii Makarov (Zmina April 18th)
War-related news from Russia
“Ukraine has already won”. Defiant statement by a Russian teenager sentenced to 2 years 8 months for anti‑war remarks and Schevchenko poetry (Mediazona, April 18th)
Well-Being and the War (The Russian Reader April 18th)
Student abducted when he was 18 faces 20-year sentence for remaining true to Ukraine, not Russia (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 17th)
The Russian Nationalists Pushing for Ukraine’s Destruction (New Lines, April 16th)
Scorched earth protest: Russia’s environmental activists are plowing on despite repression (The Insider, April 14th)
Analysis and comment
Overpromise, underdeliver: Trump must find a scapegoat for failed peace talks (The Insider April 19th)
Inflation, devaluation, reduced incomes: Russia’s economy in an era of falling oil prices (The Insider, April 19th)
The danger of Russian imperialism and Putin’s regime (Anti-Capitalist Resistance April 18th)
Against a peace imposed by Trump and Putin on Ukraine (Anti-Capitalist Resistance April 18th)
Fleeing the War to Turkey: The Experience of Russian and Ukrainian Women (Posle, April 16th)
Can Elections in Ukraine Help to End the Russo-Ukrainian War? The Origins and Functions of a Russian Propaganda Mirage (SCEEUS, April 16th)
Ukraine and the Trump-Putin Axis of Reaction (Labour Hub, April 15th)
“Russia has been waging not just a war on the line of contact against Ukraine for the fourth year, but a bloody, lawless terror” (Facebook, April 14th)
In support of “synchronized global disarmament” (International Viewpoint, April 13th)
Research of war crimes and human rights abuses
Women at the centre of human rights media: ZMINA and the Institute of Journalism held a joint scientific conference (Zmina April 18th)
Review on the human rights situation in Crimea January-March 2025 (Crimean Human Rights Group April 18th)
Human rights defenders discussed with the authorities the Alternative Report to the UN Committee against Torture (Zmina April 17th)
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to review Ukraine Mauritius, Korea, Gabon and Kyrgyzstan (UNHCR, April 17th)
16 stories about journalists-political prisoners: book “The Free Voices of Crimea” presented in Kyiv (Zmina April 11th)
International solidarity and Appeals for Solidarity
Ukraine’s Struggle: International Trade Unions Must Act Now (USC, April 20th)
GMB Union Affiliation to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC April 20th)
Breakthrough: Conference of big education union NEU votes overwhelmingly for solidarity with Ukraine (USC April 18th)
Why it’s crucial to support prisoners of war and civilian hostages (Solidarity Collectives, X, April 16th)
We shouldn’t forget about those in captivity (Solidarity Collectives, X, April 16th)
Humanitarian mission to the Ukrainian South (Solidarity Collectives, April 16th)
Upcoming events
Tuesday, April 22nd 6pm, online. Earth Day: Stop Russia's ecocide; for just, green reconstruction of Ukraine. Organised by USC. Details here.
Wednesday 7 May, 3 – 5pm, War and Peace in Ukraine, Clerici Building G.21, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia intensifies plunder in policy to bring in Russians and eliminate Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 18th)
Chilling silence 13 months after enforced disappearance of Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 18th)
Russia seizing thousands of homes in occupied Mariupol (BBC, April 17th)
'Territories are first and foremost people:’ Zaporizhzhia, Kherson residents anxiously watch Witkoff debate the land they live on (Kyiv Independent, April 17th)
Russia sentences another Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee to 14 years for supporting Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 16th)
Bakhmut 2025: Unmanned Systems Forces capture footage of the destroyed Ukrainian city (Unmanned Systems Forces, April 16th)
Ukraine frees abducted teacher after four years of torment in Russian-occupied Donetsk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 15th)
Russia passes copy-pasted 12-year ‘spying sentence almost three years after abducting Ukrainian teenager (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 14th)
The situation at the front
Moscow’s Spring Offensive Begins: Russian forces launch their first major operation since the battle for Sudzha with a thrust towards Kostiantynivka (Medusza April 15th)
‘All Russia Fed Us Are Lies’ – Captured Chinese POWs Recall Frontline Experience (Kyiv Post, April 14th)
`Once again Russia has brought death’: Photos of the aftermath of Moscow’s deadly Palm Sunday missile strike on central Sumy (Medusza April 14th)
News from Ukraine
We demand a prompt investigation: statement regarding the attack on journalist Yurii Makarov (Zmina April 18th)
War-related news from Russia
“Ukraine has already won”. Defiant statement by a Russian teenager sentenced to 2 years 8 months for anti‑war remarks and Schevchenko poetry (Mediazona, April 18th)
Well-Being and the War (The Russian Reader April 18th)
Student abducted when he was 18 faces 20-year sentence for remaining true to Ukraine, not Russia (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group April 17th)
The Russian Nationalists Pushing for Ukraine’s Destruction (New Lines, April 16th)
Scorched earth protest: Russia’s environmental activists are plowing on despite repression (The Insider, April 14th)
Analysis and comment
Overpromise, underdeliver: Trump must find a scapegoat for failed peace talks (The Insider April 19th)
Inflation, devaluation, reduced incomes: Russia’s economy in an era of falling oil prices (The Insider, April 19th)
The danger of Russian imperialism and Putin’s regime (Anti-Capitalist Resistance April 18th)
Against a peace imposed by Trump and Putin on Ukraine (Anti-Capitalist Resistance April 18th)
Fleeing the War to Turkey: The Experience of Russian and Ukrainian Women (Posle, April 16th)
Can Elections in Ukraine Help to End the Russo-Ukrainian War? The Origins and Functions of a Russian Propaganda Mirage (SCEEUS, April 16th)
Ukraine and the Trump-Putin Axis of Reaction (Labour Hub, April 15th)
“Russia has been waging not just a war on the line of contact against Ukraine for the fourth year, but a bloody, lawless terror” (Facebook, April 14th)
In support of “synchronized global disarmament” (International Viewpoint, April 13th)
Research of war crimes and human rights abuses
Women at the centre of human rights media: ZMINA and the Institute of Journalism held a joint scientific conference (Zmina April 18th)
Review on the human rights situation in Crimea January-March 2025 (Crimean Human Rights Group April 18th)
Human rights defenders discussed with the authorities the Alternative Report to the UN Committee against Torture (Zmina April 17th)
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to review Ukraine Mauritius, Korea, Gabon and Kyrgyzstan (UNHCR, April 17th)
16 stories about journalists-political prisoners: book “The Free Voices of Crimea” presented in Kyiv (Zmina April 11th)
International solidarity and Appeals for Solidarity
Ukraine’s Struggle: International Trade Unions Must Act Now (USC, April 20th)
GMB Union Affiliation to Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (USC April 20th)
Breakthrough: Conference of big education union NEU votes overwhelmingly for solidarity with Ukraine (USC April 18th)
Why it’s crucial to support prisoners of war and civilian hostages (Solidarity Collectives, X, April 16th)
We shouldn’t forget about those in captivity (Solidarity Collectives, X, April 16th)
Humanitarian mission to the Ukrainian South (Solidarity Collectives, April 16th)
Upcoming events
Tuesday, April 22nd 6pm, online. Earth Day: Stop Russia's ecocide; for just, green reconstruction of Ukraine. Organised by USC. Details here.
Wednesday 7 May, 3 – 5pm, War and Peace in Ukraine, Clerici Building G.21, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.
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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.
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