In this week’s bulletin
⬤ In memoriam David Chichkan.
⬤ Miners’ union denounces bombing frenzy.
⬤ Russian abductions of women and girls and indoctrination of children.
⬤ Connections between Gaza and Ukraine.
⬤ US hint at ‘West Bank style” occupation in Ukraine.
⬤ Anti-militarism without pacifism.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia abducts 18-year-old from occupied Melitopol, sentences her two years, later to 18 years, for photos of FSB (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 15th)
The face of resistance: Crimean Tatar activist Aider Dzhapparov (Crimea Platform, 15 August)
The right to repress: use of treason charges by Russian occupiers (Crimea Platform, 14 August)
Final blow to Ukrainians on occupied territory as Russia blocks private calls through WhatsApp and Telegram (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 14th)
At least 70 dead in FSB detentions in occupied territories (iStories, 12 August)
Russian FSB escalate abductions and terror against women in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 11th)
Ukrainian media forcibly replaced on occupied territory with ‘Russian World’ propaganda (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 11th)
Russians bomb, pillage, rape and murder Ukrainians, then force their children to study ‘Russian traditional values’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 8th)
Mother and daughter sentenced to 12 years in Russia’s conveyor belt ‘treason trials’ in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 8th)
Gravely ill Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffers life-threatening hypertensive crisis in Russian prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 6th)
Human rights defenders met with the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media to discuss the persecution of journalists in the occupied territories (Zmina, August 5th)
Crimean woman sentenced to 22 years for an invented ‘terrorist attack on a Russian military officer (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 5th)
Ukrainian political prisoner abducted and given a new sentence after 8 years in Russian prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 4th)
Mariupol teenager sentenced to 7 years for supposed ‘treason’ against Russia in supporting Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 4th)
Report: Human rights in Crimea, April-June 2025 (Crimea Human Rights Group, 7 August)
News from Ukraine
'This is terror' — Russian bombs hit bus station, university in Zaporizhzhia, injuring at least 20 (Kyiv Independent, August 17th)
Borisov Case a Test of Ukraine’s Commitment to European Human Rights Standards (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 14th)
The draft law on the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner does not comply with international standards — ZMINA analysis (Zmina, August 12th)
Russia Looted Ukrainian Artist’s Masterpieces and Then Killed His Great-Grandson (United 24, August 12th)
Artist Davyd Chychkan: Twenty Years in Revolutionary Struggle (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, August 11th)
Air raids on Kyiv echo the Blitz: a lesson in resistance (Ukrainer, 8 August)
Ukraine’s rail workers and the need for solidarity: two interviews (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, August 4th)
Full coverage: July 2025 protests against dissolution of NABU and SAPO (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, August)
Rebel, love, fight corruption (Priama Dia, 4 August)
Trade Union Newsletter (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, February-July 2025)
News from the front
‘What about our lives?’: emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia (Guardian, August 15th)
Piercing Ukraine’s defences: Russian forces make advances in Donbas (Meduza, 14 August)
Women front line soldiers: “I don’t smile as much as I used to” (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 13 August)
War-related news from Russia
Russia’s wartime economy pushes companies towards four-day week (iStories, 13 August)
Russia uses lawless 'terrorism' ruling to pass huge sentences against Ukrainian POWs for defending Mariupol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 12th)
Russian football clubs given €10.8m in Uefa ‘solidarity’ funds since Ukraine invasion (Guardian August 8th)
The so-called peace negotiations
Alaska’s Munich: The Trump–Putin Summit Rewarded Aggression and Betrayed Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, August 17th)
Negotiations in Alaska: comment by editorial collective (Posle.Media, 16 August)
Free people first! An Open Letter to the President of the United States (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 15th)
US and Russia set to ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’ (London Economic, August 13th)
Statement by human rights defenders: Peace negotiations with Russia should include humanitarian guarantees for the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine (Zmina, August 12th)
Analysis and comment
Anti-militarism without pacifism (Labour Hub, August 15th)
Modern concentration camps: human cost of ceding Ukrainian land (Ukrainska Pravda, 15 August)
Russian attacks on mining cities: appeal of independent miners union in Ukraine (12 August)
Gone in August: in memory of fallen artists and creators (Fakewatcher, August 12th)
“We are paying the highest price just for the chance to build a free and democratic country”. Oleksandra Matviichuk at the “Helsinki+50” conference (Centre for Civil Liberties, August 11th)
Another Ukraine is possible – free from occupation (Labour Hub, August 5th)
Call to Mexican and Brazilian museums: don’t collaborate with institutions in occupied territories (Crimea SOS, 23 July)
Research of human rights abuses
76 years of the Geneva Conventions: ZMINA took part in a discussion on Russia’s violations of international humanitarian law (Zmina, August 13th)
Appeal about the humanitarian crisis at the Russia-Georgia border crossing “Verkhny Lars” and the violation of the rights of Ukrainian citizens deported from Russia (Zmina, August 4th)
International solidarity
The American Leftists and Solidarity with Ukraine (Posle.Media, August 13th)
603,628 Kilometers Square (Solidarity with Ukraine) (Russian Reader, August 4th)
Upcoming events
Tuesday August 19th, 6.0pm. Don’t Betray Ukraine! Protest at Parliament Square, London. Speakers include: Artem Tidva, trade unionist and Social Movement activist.
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