In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Ukraine anti-corruption movement: statements by Social Movement, civil society organisations, Priama Dia and European campaigners.
⬤ Odesa’s homeless in wartime.
⬤ Russia’s abduction and manipulation of Russian children.
⬤ Treason charges for graffiti.
⬤ Women & war.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Not a drop to drink: water shortages in occupied eastern Ukraine (Meduza, 25 July)
Abducted Crimean Tatar father sentenced to 13 years for 'anti-Russian posts' and opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 25th)
Children abducted and held for months until their fathers agree to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 25th)
Chilling escalation as Russia brings 'treason' charges against Crimean activist for pro-Ukrainian graffiti (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 23rd)
Former prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets: At some point there were 250 people from Kherson in the prison colony (Crimea Human Rights Group, 23 July)
Weekly update on the situation in Crimea (Crimea Platform, 22 July)
Russia kills 74-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner abducted from occupied Enerhodar (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 22nd)
Life with Russian landmines: Ukrainians’ century of punishment (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 21 July)
Russia bans Internet searches for ‘extremist material’, broadening scope for terror in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 21st)
Horrific sentences on absurd ‘spying’ charges in occupied Luhansk oblast as Russia increasingly targets Ukrainian women (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 21st)
News from Ukraine
Zelensky’s reasons. Counter Russian influence, or shield his inner circle (Meduza, 25 July)
“Striking at something sacred.” Ukraine’s anti-corruption crisis (Meduza, 25 July)
Ukrainians protest against law on anti-corruption agencies – photos (Ukrainska Pravda, July 25th)
Civil society at meeting with government: law undermining independence of NABU and SAPO threatens Ukraine’s European Integration (Zmina, July 23rd)
Zelensky doesn't see corruption as a problem, prosecuted activist says (Kyiv Independent, July 18th)
In the city’s shadows: how homeless people in Odesa survive in wartime (Commons.com.ua, 11 July)
War-related news from Russia
“The president lives in his own reality.” Report from Russia’s borderlands (The Insider, 26 July)
Kremlin’s new data leak crackdown (Mediazona, 26 July)
Defying Putin’s 21st century gulag: How activists use court to oppose Russia’s war (Links, July 25th)
“The authorities don’t hear us.” The rise and fall of Russia’s women-led demobilisation movement (Meduza, 25 July)
“Everyone wants me to pick a fight with my cousin”: Nate Vance on Ukraine (The Insider, July 25th)
“We must not say it’s for the war”: Hundreds of thousands of Russian schoolkids are building drones that kill Ukrainians (The Insider, July 22nd)
Vladimir Medinsky: the chief of the past (iStories, 22 July)
Political sentences in Russia in June: 145 people imprisoned (The Insider, 21 July)
From classroom to frontline – the 18-year-old Russians fighting and dying in Ukraine (BBC, July 17th)
Analysis and comment
Another Ukraine is possible (Labour Hub, July 26th)
Law No. 4555: human rights defenders demand the repeal of threatening changes adopted under the guise of war (Zmina, July 25th)
The hypocrisy of diplomacy. Ukraine welcomes Netanyahu’s ambassador (Rev.org, July 24th)
Anticorruption bodies neutered: Statement of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity-EU, July 24th)
Anticorruption bodies neutered: Statement of Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine Solidarity, EU, July 23rd)
Weaponising the Female Body in Warfare (Posle Media, July 23rd)
Do not legitimise the occupation: Mexican and Brazilian museums urged to refrain from collaborating with institutions in occupied territories (Zmina, July 23rd)
Anticorruption protests: Statement of Priama Diia (student union) (Ukraine Solidarity-EU, July 22nd)
An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Ukrainian Historian Marta Havryshko (New Global Politics, July 22nd)
Statement by civil society organizations on the cancellation of Valery Gergiev’s participation in the “Un’Estate da Re” festival (Zmina, July 22nd)
Research of human rights abuses
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Not a drop to drink: water shortages in occupied eastern Ukraine (Meduza, 25 July)
Abducted Crimean Tatar father sentenced to 13 years for 'anti-Russian posts' and opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 25th)
Children abducted and held for months until their fathers agree to fight Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 25th)
Chilling escalation as Russia brings 'treason' charges against Crimean activist for pro-Ukrainian graffiti (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 23rd)
Former prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets: At some point there were 250 people from Kherson in the prison colony (Crimea Human Rights Group, 23 July)
Weekly update on the situation in Crimea (Crimea Platform, 22 July)
Russia kills 74-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner abducted from occupied Enerhodar (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 22nd)
Life with Russian landmines: Ukrainians’ century of punishment (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 21 July)
Russia bans Internet searches for ‘extremist material’, broadening scope for terror in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 21st)
Horrific sentences on absurd ‘spying’ charges in occupied Luhansk oblast as Russia increasingly targets Ukrainian women (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 21st)
News from Ukraine
Zelensky’s reasons. Counter Russian influence, or shield his inner circle (Meduza, 25 July)
“Striking at something sacred.” Ukraine’s anti-corruption crisis (Meduza, 25 July)
Ukrainians protest against law on anti-corruption agencies – photos (Ukrainska Pravda, July 25th)
Civil society at meeting with government: law undermining independence of NABU and SAPO threatens Ukraine’s European Integration (Zmina, July 23rd)
Zelensky doesn't see corruption as a problem, prosecuted activist says (Kyiv Independent, July 18th)
In the city’s shadows: how homeless people in Odesa survive in wartime (Commons.com.ua, 11 July)
War-related news from Russia
“The president lives in his own reality.” Report from Russia’s borderlands (The Insider, 26 July)
Kremlin’s new data leak crackdown (Mediazona, 26 July)
Defying Putin’s 21st century gulag: How activists use court to oppose Russia’s war (Links, July 25th)
“The authorities don’t hear us.” The rise and fall of Russia’s women-led demobilisation movement (Meduza, 25 July)
“Everyone wants me to pick a fight with my cousin”: Nate Vance on Ukraine (The Insider, July 25th)
“We must not say it’s for the war”: Hundreds of thousands of Russian schoolkids are building drones that kill Ukrainians (The Insider, July 22nd)
Vladimir Medinsky: the chief of the past (iStories, 22 July)
Political sentences in Russia in June: 145 people imprisoned (The Insider, 21 July)
From classroom to frontline – the 18-year-old Russians fighting and dying in Ukraine (BBC, July 17th)
Analysis and comment
Another Ukraine is possible (Labour Hub, July 26th)
Law No. 4555: human rights defenders demand the repeal of threatening changes adopted under the guise of war (Zmina, July 25th)
The hypocrisy of diplomacy. Ukraine welcomes Netanyahu’s ambassador (Rev.org, July 24th)
Anticorruption bodies neutered: Statement of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity-EU, July 24th)
Anticorruption bodies neutered: Statement of Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine Solidarity, EU, July 23rd)
Weaponising the Female Body in Warfare (Posle Media, July 23rd)
Do not legitimise the occupation: Mexican and Brazilian museums urged to refrain from collaborating with institutions in occupied territories (Zmina, July 23rd)
Anticorruption protests: Statement of Priama Diia (student union) (Ukraine Solidarity-EU, July 22nd)
An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Ukrainian Historian Marta Havryshko (New Global Politics, July 22nd)
Statement by civil society organizations on the cancellation of Valery Gergiev’s participation in the “Un’Estate da Re” festival (Zmina, July 22nd)
Research of human rights abuses
Forum on memory, trauma and transitional justice in Ukraine (Zmina, July 18th)
International solidarity
Unite the Union votes for solidarity with Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 16 July)
Upcoming events
Monday 28th July 6:00 pm, Another Ukraine is Possible – Free from Occupation. Chaired by Mick Whelan - General Secretary of ASLEF train drivers union. , Mander Hall, NEU, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD.
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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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