In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Tribunal for Russian war criminals set up.
⬤ Funeral of Russian fighter for Ukraine.
⬤ Social Movement comment on minerals deal.
⬤ Left voices on VE Day.
⬤ Far-right failure in northern Europe.
⬤ Execution of unarmed prisoners of war.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant guard savagely tortured to blame Ukraine for Russia’s war crimes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 9th)
Russia intensifies ‘filtration’ terror to keep Ukrainians from occupied Ukraine and steal their homes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 9th)
19-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity journalism not enough – Russia steps up persecution of Remzi Bekirov (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 8th)
Olha Skrypnyk: persecution of women in Crimea intensified (Crimea Human Rights Group, 7 May)
Mariupol ex-policewoman sentenced to 18 years for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 6th)
Russian invaders fill occupied Donbas with ‘monuments’ rewriting history and inciting hatred to Ukraine (May 5th)
Three years of Russian captivity and torture in reprisal for affirming that Crimea is Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 5th)
When silence becomes a weapon of fear: enforced disappearances of women in Crimea (Crimea SOS, 1 May)
Lenur Seidametov may be the first political prisoner extradited from Crimea (Crimea SOS, 30 April)
News from Ukraine
The funeral of Vladislav ‘Pirate’ Yurchenko (Solidarity Collectives, 10 May)
Russia has destroyed and damaged over 2,300 medical facilities since February 2022 (Ukrainska Pravda, May 8th)
External independent evaluation completed: NABU's effectiveness confirmed (National Anti Corruption Bureau, May 6th)
War-related news from Russia
Soldiers buy their way out: ‘people didn’t know how else to save themselves’ (Meduza, 8 May)
‘The squadron did not notice the fallen fighter’ (The Russian Reader, 7 May)
Ukrainian prisoners in Russia: a network of camps (Meduza/ Ukrainska Pravda, 6 May)
How Russia took record losses in Ukraine in 2024 (BBC, May 5th)
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are locked in Russian prisons — will US peace talks leave them behind? (Kyiv Independent, May 1st)
Analysis and comment
Victory Day 2025 (The Russian Reader, 9 May)
Victory Day: ‘a crime against the memory of those who died’ (Meduza, 9 May)
Trial for Lavrov and Putin: tribunal for Russia has had Europe's blessing (European Pravda, May 9th)
Social Movement: Is the Agreement on Mineral Resources beneficial for Ukraine? (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, May 8th)
Victory Day: three interventions from the left (Posle.Media, 7 May)
‘We already saw that’: European parliamentarians on the failure of the far right in northern Europe (Commons.com.ua, 6 May)
On freedom of peaceful assembly in Ukraine: Tetiana Pechonchyk spoke at the OSCE meeting (Zmina, May 6th)
Intersyndicale (France): urgent letter about attacks on trade unions in Ukraine (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, 29 April)
Research of war crimes and human rights abuses
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination publishes findings on Ukraine (UN Commissioner for Human Rights, May 9th)
Russians gun down three unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war as proof mounts of high-level orders to kill (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 7th)
ZMINA held an event at the OSCE on the losses of civil society during Russia’s war against Ukraine (Zmina, May 6th)
«It Is Time for the International Community to Be Proactive». Oleksandra Matviichuk Met the Delegation of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (Centre for Civil Liberties, May 2nd)
International solidarity
Help defend PCS’s pro-Ukrainian policy (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 6 May)
Upcoming events
Monday 12-Friday 16 May: the first Crimea Week in Brussels, supported by Ukrainian and international civil society
Sunday 1 June, 1.0pm, Marble Arch, London, March for the children of Ukraine
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