A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 16-June-2025.
In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Anti-war speech in court.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia sentences 64-year-old Melitopol woman to 16 years on idiotic ‘terrorism’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 13th)
New attack on independent Muslim community in Russian-occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 13th)
6-year sentences for prayer amid Russia’s mounting persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 12th)
Ghost of a city: The true story of life in Mariupol three years after occupation (The Insider, June 12th)
In Crimea, three women are charged with “state treason” (Crimea Human Rights Group, 12 June)
Lawyers of nine Ukrainian political prisoners abducted from Kherson demand action over their systematic torture in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 10th)
Russian FSB abduct Crimean couple, place their child in care (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 9th)
Churches of the Donetsk region: The number of Russian attacks has increased this year (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 9th)
News from the front
How drones change everything, and nothing (Meduza, 13 June)
A new ‘buffer zone’? Russia advances in east-central Ukraine (Meduza, 12 June)
News from Ukraine
Racketeering in the trade union building (Ukraine Solidarity-EU, June 15th)
Ukraine at war, Ukraine in struggle... (International Viewpoint, June 13th)
Women in activism: emerging threats and how to combat them – summary of the ZMINA discussion at Docudays UA (Zmina, June 12th)
Ukrainian POW horrifically tortured, with words ‘glory to Russia’ burned on his chest (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 11th)
An evening of remembrance: how civil society copes with the losses of war (Zmina, June 11th)
May-June report – Humanitarian Trip ’25 (Solidarity Collectives, 9 June)
War-related news from Russia
Shell company: Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s businesses are cashing in on the war in Ukraine — and he’s trying to hide it (The Insider, June 11th)
Investigation: Telegram, the FSB and the man in the middle (iStories, 10 June)
Russian anti-war prisoner Alexei Rozhkov: I acted out of conscience, against the state and its all-powerful machine (People and Nature, June 10th)
“Even if you feel opposition inside, you have to demonstrate support”: Confessions of teachers in Belgorod schools (The Insider, June 10th)
Huge sentences demanded in Russia’s reprisal for humiliation over Ukrainian attack on military airbase (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 9th)
Analysis and comment
Book presentation: How the indigenous people of Crimea remade themselves (Crimea Platform, 13 June)
Lithuania: “Not European enough to be included in the European conversation” (Posle.Media, 11 June)
Vitaly Dudin: What prevents the ending of war? (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine)
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