In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Ukrainian unions’ appeal.
⬤ Rearmament questions.
⬤ Sumy defence appeal.
⬤ Crimea health violations.
⬤ Russia quits anti-torture pact.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Day of remembrance for victims of forced disappearances (Crimea Platform, 30 August)
Women increasingly targeted in huge sentences on ‘spying / treason’ charges in Russian-occupied Luhansk region (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 29th)
War and ‘Russian world’ propaganda instead of learning foreign languages in schools in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 29th)
Russia drops lethal flower petal mines in ongoing terror against civilians in Kherson (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 29th)
Crimea: Ukraine must find ways to speak about life under occupation (Crimea Platform, 28 August)
Daily ‘treason trials’ expose Russia’s lies about mass support in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 27th)
Praying for rain: Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine suffers an unprecedented water crisis (The Insider, August 26th)
Russia is killing 70-year-old Halyna Dovhopola, sentenced to 12 years for loving Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 26th)
Crimean Tatar journalist and human rights defender faces new prosecution for reporting Russian repression (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 26th)
News from Ukraine
"I'm going to make a run for it. You coming?" 48 hours in the life of a Ukrainian soldier who escaped Russian captivity and execution (Ukrainska Pravda, August 29th)
Free public transport in Ukraine: common weal vs capitalist modernity (The Ecologist, August 27th)
Kherson mayor returns from captivity: “my second birthday” (Meduza, 26 August)
Ukrainian pensioners in suffering and poverty (International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggle, 26 August)
News from the front
“The enemy will go on trampling our land, and we canʼt fire back?”: Ukrainians want peace — but not at the price of territorial concessions (The Insider, August 30th)
Dispatch from Dobropillia (Meduza,com, August 29th)
Russian ‘Drone Siege’ Threatens to Cut Off the Ukrainian City of Kherson (Byline Times, August 26th)
War-related news from Russia
Russian losses exceed 200,000: the deadliest year yet (Meduza, 28 August)
US deports 30 people to Russia in a day (The Insider, 28 August)
Russian government plans to withdraw from anti-torture convention (Crimea Platform, 27 August)
“Nobody wants to help the army anymore”: Confessions from Russian pro-war volunteers (The Insider, August 26th)
Turning Her Back on Propaganda: Valeria Zotova (Russian Reader, August 26th)
Tax and bomb: Russia tightens the squeeze on its citizens to keep financing the war in Ukraine (The Insider, August 25th)
Inside Russia’s Shadow Military Sustaining the War (War on the Rocks, August 22nd)
Analysis and comment
Ukrainian unions: “We call on global trade unions to strengthen support for Ukraine” (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 29 August)
Declaration initiated by the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine, August 27th)
Putin’s Negotiation Theater: The 10-Point Playbook That Fools the West (Substack, August 22nd)
Hanna Perekhoda: Rearmanent, militarisation and defence (Facebook, 22 August)
Research of human rights abuses
Out of the over 220 political prisoners, 98 require medical assistance — Viktoriia Nesterenko spoke about the crimes of the Russian Federation at a briefing of the Crimean Platform Contact Network (Zmina, August 27th)
Human rights defenders submit a report to the UN, highlighting health rights violations in occupied Crimea (Zmina, August 25th)
International solidarity
Message from Social Movement activists in Ukraine to the Gaza freedom flotilla (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, 31 August)
In memory of Misyats (Solidarity Collectives, 28 August)
Help Defend Sumy Oblast from Russian attacks (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 27 August)
Forthcoming events
Ukrainian film festival 2025 (Ukrainian Institute London, September 2025)
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