A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 13-Ooctober-2025.

In this week’s bulletin

⬤ The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin.
⬤ Crimea activist Volodymyr Ananiyev’s detention extended.
⬤ nationalisation of 'assets' in occupied Crimea.
 ⬤ Update from a drone workshop.

News from the territories occupied by Russia

Symbolic `execution of enemies of Russia’ in a school in occupied Donetsk oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 10th)

Russia uses citizenship as a new weapon against dissidents in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 10th)

Oct 10th – the birthday of Seydamet Memetov, prominent figure in the Crimean national movement (Crimea Platform, October 10th)

The nationalisation of 'assets' in the occupied Crimea. (Crimea Platform, October 10th)

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine publishes data on over 140 cultural artefacts stolen by Russia (Crimea Platform, October 9th)

Crimean Mission’s team participates in OSCE's Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw. (Crimean Platform, October 8th)

Russians imprison two Crimean Tatar brothers on lawless charges, and move into one of their homes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 6th)

Doctor first abducted from occupied Donbas in 2015 sentenced to 15 years `for spying for Ukraine’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 6th)

Uncle Vanya, Bison, San Sanych – who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war? (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 6th)

Detention extended for Crimean civil rights activist Volodymyr Ananiyev. (Crimean Human Rights Group, October 6th)

News from Ukraine

Survey shows only half of Ukrainian refugees in Europe ready to return home after the war (The Insider, October 10th)

“Drones fly right above the stores”: Residents flee the border areas of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Region amid Russian advance (The Insider, October 10th)

Loss of close to 60% of Ukraine’s gas production a makor blow to Ukraine before winter (The Insider, October 10th)

`I’m afraid I'll be kidnapped and taken to Russia’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Prot’n Group, October 6th)

Ukraine’s voiceless army: Ukrainian deserters speak out (Anarchist Communist Group, Sept 30th)

News from the front

`The Kremlin has resources’: Putin believes Russia can outlast and overpower Ukraine. What does that mean for the war’s future? (Meduza, October 10th)

A high stakes gamble: Ukraine has successfully slowed Russia's advance in central Donbas – but at the cost of its defenses elsewhere (Meduza, October 6th)

War-related news from Russia

Celebrated food historian jailed in Moscow over social media war posts (Mediazona, October 10th)

Russian losses in the war with Ukraine - count updated (Mediazona, October 10th)

The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin (People & Nature, 9 October)

Ukrainian in Russia for her brother’s funeral sentenced to 12 years for 16 donations to Ukraine’s armed forces (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 9th)

War and wine - while Russia bleeds, Putin's wine business is booming. (The Insider, October 6th)

Putin admits Russia downed Azerbaijan Airlines flight last year (Meduza, October 9th)

Russia’s growing wanted persons data base (Mediazone, October 9th)

A US court said I faced no danger back in Russia - now I face deportation (The Insider, October 9th)

`For the Defense ministry, people are garbage’. Why thousands of Russian soldiers are deserting (Meduza, October 8th)

Budget of mass destruction: VAT hike signals Russia's course toward prolonged war and economic decline (The Insider, October 7th)

Putin’s war economy reaches limit according to 2026 budget data (Important Stories, October 2nd)

Army Contract and Draft: Russia's new draft laws (Posle Media, October 1st)

Analysis and comment

Hungarian PM launches petition against Brussels’ “war plan”, developed to back Ukraine (Ukrainska Pravda, October 12th)

Counting bodies, casting doubts independent Russian analysts dispute the reliability of alleged Russian casualties (Meduza, October 11th)

Russia on the horizon - copying the Kremlin's tactics increasingly puts Tbilisi in Moscow's orbit (The Insider, October 10th)

A Disappearing Act - Why Navalny's memoir is missing 100 pages in the Russian edition. (Meduza, October 10th)

Blackouts, military nukes and drones - military expert Dimitry Kuznets explains the limitations of energy warfare (Meduza, October 10th)

The next chapter in Russia’s war against Ukraine: four scenarios (Meduza, October 9th)

Reform and the price of Putin’s peace: patriotism for sale - the UK far right's Russian connection (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, October 8th)

Research of human rights abuses

100 children removed from occupied territories to near Moscow, for social and psychological adaptation. (Alterpravo, October 9th)

Human rights organizations warned at OSCE Conference of expanding system of persecution and indoctrination in occupied territories (Zmina, October 8th)

ZMINA highlights systematic attacks on media under Russia's aggression at the OSCE Conference (Zmina, October 8th)

Human rights defenders list documented economic, social and cultural rights violations in occupied Ukrainian territories to the UN (Zmina, October 6th)

International solidarity

Report on fundraiser for cars for international legion fighters (Solidarity Collectives, October 4th)

Report on the work of the FPV drone fundraiser and workshop (Solidarity Collective, October 4th)

Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Pro-Ukrainian Russian Israeli fighting for the rights of Palestinians (The Russian Reader, September 23rd)

Solidarity Zone Russian anti-war prisoners in the gulag (Solidarity Zone)

Upcoming events

Thursday 20 November, 6.30pm: Try Me for Treason – readings of speeches from Russia’s courts / Book launch for Voices against Putin’s war. Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London E1 5QJ. Ukraine Information Group. 

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News From Ukraine πŸ’£ Bulletin 166

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 13-Ooctober-2025.

In this week’s bulletin

⬤ The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin.
⬤ Crimea activist Volodymyr Ananiyev’s detention extended.
⬤ nationalisation of 'assets' in occupied Crimea.
 ⬤ Update from a drone workshop.

News from the territories occupied by Russia

Symbolic `execution of enemies of Russia’ in a school in occupied Donetsk oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 10th)

Russia uses citizenship as a new weapon against dissidents in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 10th)

Oct 10th – the birthday of Seydamet Memetov, prominent figure in the Crimean national movement (Crimea Platform, October 10th)

The nationalisation of 'assets' in the occupied Crimea. (Crimea Platform, October 10th)

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine publishes data on over 140 cultural artefacts stolen by Russia (Crimea Platform, October 9th)

Crimean Mission’s team participates in OSCE's Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw. (Crimean Platform, October 8th)

Russians imprison two Crimean Tatar brothers on lawless charges, and move into one of their homes (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 6th)

Doctor first abducted from occupied Donbas in 2015 sentenced to 15 years `for spying for Ukraine’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 6th)

Uncle Vanya, Bison, San Sanych – who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war? (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 6th)

Detention extended for Crimean civil rights activist Volodymyr Ananiyev. (Crimean Human Rights Group, October 6th)

News from Ukraine

Survey shows only half of Ukrainian refugees in Europe ready to return home after the war (The Insider, October 10th)

“Drones fly right above the stores”: Residents flee the border areas of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Region amid Russian advance (The Insider, October 10th)

Loss of close to 60% of Ukraine’s gas production a makor blow to Ukraine before winter (The Insider, October 10th)

`I’m afraid I'll be kidnapped and taken to Russia’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Prot’n Group, October 6th)

Ukraine’s voiceless army: Ukrainian deserters speak out (Anarchist Communist Group, Sept 30th)

News from the front

`The Kremlin has resources’: Putin believes Russia can outlast and overpower Ukraine. What does that mean for the war’s future? (Meduza, October 10th)

A high stakes gamble: Ukraine has successfully slowed Russia's advance in central Donbas – but at the cost of its defenses elsewhere (Meduza, October 6th)

War-related news from Russia

Celebrated food historian jailed in Moscow over social media war posts (Mediazona, October 10th)

Russian losses in the war with Ukraine - count updated (Mediazona, October 10th)

The courtroom rebels standing up to warmonger Putin (People & Nature, 9 October)

Ukrainian in Russia for her brother’s funeral sentenced to 12 years for 16 donations to Ukraine’s armed forces (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 9th)

War and wine - while Russia bleeds, Putin's wine business is booming. (The Insider, October 6th)

Putin admits Russia downed Azerbaijan Airlines flight last year (Meduza, October 9th)

Russia’s growing wanted persons data base (Mediazone, October 9th)

A US court said I faced no danger back in Russia - now I face deportation (The Insider, October 9th)

`For the Defense ministry, people are garbage’. Why thousands of Russian soldiers are deserting (Meduza, October 8th)

Budget of mass destruction: VAT hike signals Russia's course toward prolonged war and economic decline (The Insider, October 7th)

Putin’s war economy reaches limit according to 2026 budget data (Important Stories, October 2nd)

Army Contract and Draft: Russia's new draft laws (Posle Media, October 1st)

Analysis and comment

Hungarian PM launches petition against Brussels’ “war plan”, developed to back Ukraine (Ukrainska Pravda, October 12th)

Counting bodies, casting doubts independent Russian analysts dispute the reliability of alleged Russian casualties (Meduza, October 11th)

Russia on the horizon - copying the Kremlin's tactics increasingly puts Tbilisi in Moscow's orbit (The Insider, October 10th)

A Disappearing Act - Why Navalny's memoir is missing 100 pages in the Russian edition. (Meduza, October 10th)

Blackouts, military nukes and drones - military expert Dimitry Kuznets explains the limitations of energy warfare (Meduza, October 10th)

The next chapter in Russia’s war against Ukraine: four scenarios (Meduza, October 9th)

Reform and the price of Putin’s peace: patriotism for sale - the UK far right's Russian connection (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, October 8th)

Research of human rights abuses

100 children removed from occupied territories to near Moscow, for social and psychological adaptation. (Alterpravo, October 9th)

Human rights organizations warned at OSCE Conference of expanding system of persecution and indoctrination in occupied territories (Zmina, October 8th)

ZMINA highlights systematic attacks on media under Russia's aggression at the OSCE Conference (Zmina, October 8th)

Human rights defenders list documented economic, social and cultural rights violations in occupied Ukrainian territories to the UN (Zmina, October 6th)

International solidarity

Report on fundraiser for cars for international legion fighters (Solidarity Collectives, October 4th)

Report on the work of the FPV drone fundraiser and workshop (Solidarity Collective, October 4th)

Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Pro-Ukrainian Russian Israeli fighting for the rights of Palestinians (The Russian Reader, September 23rd)

Solidarity Zone Russian anti-war prisoners in the gulag (Solidarity Zone)

Upcoming events

Thursday 20 November, 6.30pm: Try Me for Treason – readings of speeches from Russia’s courts / Book launch for Voices against Putin’s war. Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London E1 5QJ. Ukraine Information Group. 

πŸ”΄This bulletin is put together by labour movement activists in solidarity with Ukrainian resistance. More information at Ukraine Information Group.

We are also on twitter. Our aim is to circulate information in English that to the best of our knowledge is reliable. If you have something you think we should include, please send it to 2U022ukrainesolidarity@gmail.com.


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.

The bulletin is also stored on line here.

To receive the bulletin regularly, send your email to:
2022ukrainesolidarity@gmail.com.
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