In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Ukraine’s unbearable choice.
⬤ Donetsk frontline update/ Pokrovsk & other fronts.
⬤ Ukraine’s biggest corruption scandal.
⬤ Building in Mariupol.
⬤ Russian torture of prisoners.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
29 November – International Women Human Rights Defenders Day: Women of Crimea (Crimea Platform, November 29th)
The Face of Resistance: Crimean Tatar Activist Vadym Bektemirov (Crimea Platform, November 28th)
‘War tourism’ plans for Mariupol and other cities Russia first mercilessly bombed (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 28th)
Luxury rubble: Real estate prices in Russian-occupied Donbas skyrocket despite widespread destruction, shelling, and water shortages (The Insider, November 28th)
Monstrous sentences against Crimean Tatar journalist and activists seized in Russian retaliation for a humiliating attack by Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 27th)
74-year-old Crimean Tatar historian detained and prosecuted over interview about the 1944 Deportation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 26th)
Joint Statement of the Fourth Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimea Platform (Crimea Platform, November 26th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, November 25th)
Berdiansk man sentenced to 12 years after 18 months in Russian torture prisons (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 24th)
Fourth Parliamentary Summit of International Crimea Platform (Crimea Platform, Nov 24th)
People in occupied territories must be visible – Alena Lunova at Kyiv Dialogue (Zmina, Nov 20th)
From Crimea to Africa, Asia and Latin America: “Crimea Global” outcomes (Zmina, November 19th)
Women support each other, and it saves lives: Girl Power at Crimea Global (Zmina, November 18th)
Building on Ruins (Belling Cat, November 14th)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, October 2025)
News from the front and ‘peace’ negotiations
We Have Aces Up Our Sleeve (Tribunal for Putin, November 26th)
What the leaked transcripts reveal about US-Russia negotiations (Meduza, 26 November)
As Trump and Putin seek to force Ukraine into "peace", what's the situation in Donetsk Oblast? (Ukrainska Pravda, November 25th)
'No one will support it': Ukraine's soldiers react to US peace plan (BBC, November 24th)
US/Russia talks. Peace for our time (The Russian Reader, 24 November)
The battle for Pokrovsk and the costs for Ukraine on other fronts (Meduza, 19 November)
News from Ukraine
“Midas” vs. Mindich: How Ukraine’s NABU executed the biggest anti-corruption operation in its history — and why the EU is getting involved (The Insider, November 28th)
Gender, Equality and the EU: ZMINA presented its Shadow Report at the National LGBTIQ Conference (Zmina, November 27th)
War-related news from Russia
Journalist sentenced to 4 years for working with Radio Liberty has disappeared from a Russian prison (Ukrainska Pravda, November 30th)
Russia churns out mass sentences for ‘spying’, with only the part of occupied Ukraine varying (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 28th)
Worked too well together. Crimea bridge defendants sentenced to life (Mediazona, 27 November)
‘I decided to fight back. Ukraine is my home.’ Yulia Lemeshchenko’s final word in court (People and Nature, November 27th)
Ukraine’s powerlifting champion sentenced in Russia to 19 years for partisan acts in defence of her home (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 25th)
Analysis and comment
We don't have a spare Ukraine, former Kherson mayor says (Ukrainska Pravda, November 28th)
Ukraine/Russia: Peace Efforts Should Put Human Impact First (Human Rights Watch, November 27th)
How Volodymyr Ischenko Strengthens Russia’s Negotiating Position (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, November 27th)
Intensified attacks on Ukraine and Russia (UN commissioner for Human Rights , November 25th)
Russia is undermining the system of international criminal justice. And the West is inadvertently enabling it (Ukrainska Pravda, November 24th)
War Against Nature (Tribunal for Putin, November 22nd)
Ukraine Faces an Unbearable Choice (Oleksandr Kyselov in Jacobin, November 21st)
Amidst talks of the war ending (Tribunal for Putin, November 21st)
Research of human rights abuses
Music in Captivity: Marine Corps Orchestra’s Story (Kharkiv Human Rights Prot’n Group, Nov 26th)
How many Ukrainian prisoners are in the enemy detention centers, and where are they located? (Tribunal for Putin, November 24th)
A seminar on Ukrainian children abducted by Russia was held on the sidelines of the Fourth Parliamentary Summit of the Crimea Platform (Crimea Platform, November 24th)
Upcoming events
Wednesday 26 November, 6.0pm UK time: What should trade unions do for Ukraine? International public meeting Register here.
Tuesday 2 December, 8-11pm. Ukrainian Winter Folk: fundraising night of live folk singing, Walthamstow Trades Hall 61/63 Tower Hamlets Road, E17 4RQ
Saturday 6 December: Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Annual General Meeting
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Does anyone know why both Peter Keeley (British Agent who infiltrated the South Down PIRA) and Clifford Peebles (former UVF/LVF/Orange Vol and friends with 'William McGrath, John McKeague and Pastor Alan Campbell'---All three were found guilty of raping young boys at Kincora have been helping the Ukrainian Army to make IEDs?
ReplyDeletePeeples was convicted in 2001 when police in Dungannon found a pipe-bomb and two hand grenades in a car in which he and an accomplice were travelling.
In recent years he inserted himself into the anti-protocol movement.
He travelled briefly to Ukraine to meet with former IRA agent Peter Keeley, who has been working with far right groups in the region. Keeley was a soldier who was planted within the South Down IRA.
In recent years Keeley, who operated as an agent under the name Kevin Fulton, has been working for the former leader of the former English Defence League Stephen Yaxley Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson.
Peeples is believed to be – along with others – running a number of social media accounts promoting protests and spreading far right misinformation.
This includes falsely claiming to have seen a video of asylum seekers ‘partying’ inside the Clayton Hotel in Belfast.