A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 8-December-2025.

In this week’s bulletin

 Ukraine faces imperial carve-up.
 Belgium: release those assets!.
 Film: Try Me For Treason.
 Russian persecution of Crimean Tatars & torture.
 Civilian infrastructure attacked.
 Indoctrination & deportation of children.

News from the territories occupied by Russia

Russia sentences Luhansk woman to 16 years for sheltering two defenders of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)

The Face of Resistance: The Story of Crimean Tatar Activist Emil Dzhemadenov (Crimea Platform, December 5th)

Russian FSB carry out armed 'inspection' of Crimean Tatar journalist's home, take her away for interrogation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)

Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 3rd)

Analytical Brief “CRIMEA: A Transit Hub for the Transfer and Ideological Indoctrination of Children” Presented in Kyiv (Crimea Platform, December 3rd)

Forced deportation of Ukrainian children (Solidarity Collectives, December 2nd)

Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, December 2nd)

57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 2nd)

Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 1st)

News from Ukraine

The Heaviest Attacks on Civilian Targets (Tribunal for Putin, December 5th)

Russia’s ‘Dr Evil’ charged over savage torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 4th)

What Yermak’s resignation means for Zelensky and the peace process (Meduza, 1 December)

Ukraine charges four Russian commanders over deadly missile strike on Kryvyi Rih playground (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 1st)

War-related news from Russia

A Russian deserter who injured himself to escape the war (Meduza, 6 December)

Paying up: The Kremlin is sacrificing regional development, business, healthcare, and education to fund the war in Ukraine (The Insider, December 5th)

How the Kremlin sacrifices welfare to fund the war (The Insider, 5 December)

Count of Russian war dead updated (Mediazona, 5 December)

The invisible army: Russian courts recognise 90,000 servicemen missing (Mediazona, 5 December)

Enemy of the State No. 1. Repressions against Russian Anarchists (Posle.Media, December 3rd)

The Intensifying Crackdown in Russia (Russian Reader, November 30th)

Analysis and comment

The “most difficult” issue in Russia-Ukraine talks: territory (Meduza, 6 December)

Ukraine Faces an Imperial Carve-Up (Jacobin, December 4th)

Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine (Tempest, November 28th)

Research of human rights abuses

Joint appeal for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression (Zmina, December 3rd)

Joint statement at the General Debate of the ASP of the ICC: the Court’s critical role in Ukraine and beyond (Zmina, December 2nd)

International solidarity

Solidarity Collectives, together with a delegation of anarchists from Dresden, carried out a humanitarian mission (Solidarity Collectives, X, December 4th)

Belgium: make those frozen assets available to Ukraine now – demonstrations 12-19 December (European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine, 3 December)

Try Me For Treason: readings from anti-war protesters’ speeches in Russian courts

๐ŸŽฅ A film of Try Me For Treason is now up on Youtube here. Please share! The readings were filmed at the book launch event for Voices Against Putin’s War: Protesters’ Defiant Speeches in Russian Courts, in London on 20 November.

๐Ÿ•ฎ To buy the book, or download a free PDF that is now available, go here.

๐ŸŽฅ There will be another chance to see Try Me For Treason: on Thursday 5 Feb, 6.30 pm, central London. Details to follow.


๐Ÿ”ดThis bulletin is put together by labour movement activists in solidarity with Ukrainian resistance. More information at Ukraine Information Group.

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News From Ukraine ๐Ÿ’ฃ Bulletin 174

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 8-December-2025.

In this week’s bulletin

 Ukraine faces imperial carve-up.
 Belgium: release those assets!.
 Film: Try Me For Treason.
 Russian persecution of Crimean Tatars & torture.
 Civilian infrastructure attacked.
 Indoctrination & deportation of children.

News from the territories occupied by Russia

Russia sentences Luhansk woman to 16 years for sheltering two defenders of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)

The Face of Resistance: The Story of Crimean Tatar Activist Emil Dzhemadenov (Crimea Platform, December 5th)

Russian FSB carry out armed 'inspection' of Crimean Tatar journalist's home, take her away for interrogation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)

Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 3rd)

Analytical Brief “CRIMEA: A Transit Hub for the Transfer and Ideological Indoctrination of Children” Presented in Kyiv (Crimea Platform, December 3rd)

Forced deportation of Ukrainian children (Solidarity Collectives, December 2nd)

Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, December 2nd)

57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 2nd)

Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 1st)

News from Ukraine

The Heaviest Attacks on Civilian Targets (Tribunal for Putin, December 5th)

Russia’s ‘Dr Evil’ charged over savage torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 4th)

What Yermak’s resignation means for Zelensky and the peace process (Meduza, 1 December)

Ukraine charges four Russian commanders over deadly missile strike on Kryvyi Rih playground (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 1st)

War-related news from Russia

A Russian deserter who injured himself to escape the war (Meduza, 6 December)

Paying up: The Kremlin is sacrificing regional development, business, healthcare, and education to fund the war in Ukraine (The Insider, December 5th)

How the Kremlin sacrifices welfare to fund the war (The Insider, 5 December)

Count of Russian war dead updated (Mediazona, 5 December)

The invisible army: Russian courts recognise 90,000 servicemen missing (Mediazona, 5 December)

Enemy of the State No. 1. Repressions against Russian Anarchists (Posle.Media, December 3rd)

The Intensifying Crackdown in Russia (Russian Reader, November 30th)

Analysis and comment

The “most difficult” issue in Russia-Ukraine talks: territory (Meduza, 6 December)

Ukraine Faces an Imperial Carve-Up (Jacobin, December 4th)

Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine (Tempest, November 28th)

Research of human rights abuses

Joint appeal for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression (Zmina, December 3rd)

Joint statement at the General Debate of the ASP of the ICC: the Court’s critical role in Ukraine and beyond (Zmina, December 2nd)

International solidarity

Solidarity Collectives, together with a delegation of anarchists from Dresden, carried out a humanitarian mission (Solidarity Collectives, X, December 4th)

Belgium: make those frozen assets available to Ukraine now – demonstrations 12-19 December (European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine, 3 December)

Try Me For Treason: readings from anti-war protesters’ speeches in Russian courts

๐ŸŽฅ A film of Try Me For Treason is now up on Youtube here. Please share! The readings were filmed at the book launch event for Voices Against Putin’s War: Protesters’ Defiant Speeches in Russian Courts, in London on 20 November.

๐Ÿ•ฎ To buy the book, or download a free PDF that is now available, go here.

๐ŸŽฅ There will be another chance to see Try Me For Treason: on Thursday 5 Feb, 6.30 pm, central London. Details to follow.


๐Ÿ”ดThis 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.
To stop it, please reply with the word “STOP” in the subject field.

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