In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Raging against Putin’s war machine.
⬤ “Treason” detentions in occupied territories.
⬤ Why young Ukrainians fight.
⬤ Fascists meet in St Petersburg.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Message by Human Rights Defender Mumine Saliyeva published (Crimea Platform, October 18th)
Abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer sentenced to 16 years on grotesque ‘treason’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 17th)
Human rights organisations: unlawful searches and detentions of Crimean women (Crimea Human Rights Group, 17 October)
Four Crimean Tatar women could face 20-year sentences in new wave of Russian terror in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 16th)
Political prisoner Lenur Khalilov, released from a Russian penal colony due to health reasons, has been re-arrested by the occupiers (Crimea Platform, October 15th)
In the Bağçasaray district, the occupiers have carried out another wave of unlawful searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars (Crimea Platform, October 15th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, October 14th)
The 22nd Illegal Conscription Campaign into the Russian Armed Forces Has Begun in Temporarily Occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, October 14th)
Russia sentences abducted Crimean to 15 years in second secret ‘trial’ on same absurd charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 14th)
Ukrainian mother sentenced to five years for helping her family survive and escape Russian occupation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 13th)
From enforced disappearance to imprisonment: Anatoliy Kobzar found after 19 months of Russian lies (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 13th)
Crimea: new charges against Khatidzhe Buiukhchan (Crimea Human Rights Group, 13 October)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, September 2025)
News from Ukraine
We asked 5 young Ukrainians why they chose to go to war against Russia (Kyiv Independent, September 30th)
The Anarchists (yes, anarchists) in Ukraine’s military (Counteroffensive, October 9th)
'Logistical terrorism' — Russia steps up attacks on Ukrainian railways (Kyiv Independent, October 7th)
War-related news from Russia
The repeated illegal detention of Lenur Khalilov (Crimea SOS, 16 October)
Russia and Estonia: “you can never expect them to tell the truth” (Meduza, 15 October)
Return of the “Black International”: Neo-Nazis flock to St. Petersburg after invitation by Russia’s “Orthodox” oligarch Konstantin Malofeev (The Insider, October 15th)
Russian oil shortages: Fuel subsidised and “homemade” diesel legalised (The Insider, 13 October)
Schools in Russia: “We Simply Must Fake It” (Posle, October 8th)
Analysis and comment
Report: what the Latin American media say about Ukraine and Crimea (Crimea Human Rights Group, 15 October)
Draft law No. 13597 may become a step towards European standards in the field of equality, but it needs further refinement — analysis by Iryna Fedorovych (Zmina, October 14th)
Raging Against Vladimir Putin’s War Machine (Jacobin, 14 October)
Investigation: kidnaps and sentences for “espionage” and “treason” in the occupied territories (iStories, 13 October)
Research of human rights abuses
Dobropillya — a city whose population disappeared in two days (Tribunal for Putin, October 18th)
Torture of Ukrainians in temporarily occupied territory and Russian places of detention (Tribunal for Putin, October 16th)
Ukraine: Oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council (Tribunal for Putin, October 13th)
Systematic denial of fair trial rights in Russia’s war against Ukraine presented at OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference (Zmina, October 13th)
A New Type of War Crime. Oleksandra Romantsova at a Closed Briefing on Civilians in Captivity (Centre for Civil Liberties, October 7th)
International solidarity
Report from Unison delegation to Kharkiv (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 15 October)
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