In this week’s bulletin
⬤ The unachievable peace.
⬤ Wild capitalism in Kyiv/.
⬤ Limits to Russian mobilisation.
⬤ Volunteering in Ukraine at war.
⬤ UN denounces blackout bombing.
⬤ Left accommodation to partition.
⬤ Russian torture and war crimes.
⬤ French unions’ solidarity with Ukraine.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Three years in a penal isolator (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 24th)
Nine suspects in the case of Vilen Temerianov (Crimea Human Rights Group, 23 January)
Brutal 12-year ‘treason’ sentences against Crimean woman with MS and her daughter, seized while her baby was in intensive care (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 23rd)
Face of Resistance: The Story of Crimean Tatar Political Prisoner Seiran Khairetdinov (Crimea Platform, January 23rd)
‘In the evening, your flag was hanging. In the morning, I look—it is our flag…’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 22nd)
ECHR Rules Russia Violated Right to Peaceful Assembly in Crimea (Crimea Platform, January 21st)
No mercy for dying Crimean Tatar civic activist imprisoned for reporting Russian repression (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 21st)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, January 20th)
Preschool teacher abducted by the Russians, tortured and sentenced to 6 years for her refusal to betray Ukraine’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 20th)
Russia sentences three Ukrainian women to 12 years for supporting Ukraine’s defenders (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 19th)
Crimean journalist fined (Crimea Human Rights Group, 14 January)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, December 2025)
News from Ukraine
Interview with Daria Saburova: volunteering in wartime Ukraine (Posle.Media, 21 January)
Stand with Ukraine Through Darkness (Russian Reader, January 21st)
Without Hope for Revival? Why Maternity Hospitals Are Disappearing in Ukraine (Commons.com, January 21st)
Half of Kyiv without heating after Russian attack (Ukrainska Pravda, January 20th)
Kyiv in crisis: how wild capitalism is exacerbating devastation (International Viewpoint, January 19th)
Russia’s war on Ukrainian children (Power Vertical, January 2026)
War-related news from Russia
“It’s best to avoid traveling by train”: Women in Russia’s Belgorod Region face violence from soldiers (The Insider, January 23rd)
Inside the only uncensored news outlet in Russia’s war-torn border regions (Meduza, 23 January)
The Kremlin prepares for Chechen dictator’s death (iStories, 23 January)
School grades for ideology and conformity (Meduza, 22 January)
Russia’s “disposable” foreign fighters (Meduza, 22 January)
Deleted court statement admits Russian battleship was hit by missiles (Mediazona, 22 January)
Drunk driving and prostitutes: Members of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service have taken to denouncing their colleagues (The Insider, January 22nd)
Gazprombank boss’s assets seized in France (iStories, 20 January)
High-ranking post in Russia for soldier accused of grave war crimes in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 19th)
Testing the Limits of State-Directed Mobilization (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, December 15th)
Analysis and comment
The Peace That Cannot Come (Alkweb, January 22nd)
“Solidarity with the resistance of Ukrainian workers!” – Statement from eight French union federations (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, January 22nd)
How European integration can become an instrument for protecting the rights of IDPs and residents of the TOT: ZMINA presented a new analysis (Zmina, January 21st)
Ukraine: Türk outraged by continued Russian attacks on energy infrastructure (UNHCR, January 20th)
How a Section of the Left Accommodated the Partition of Ukraine (Red Mole, January 17th)
Challenges in holding an all-Ukraine referendum (Opora, 5 January)
Upcoming events
Thursday 5th February, 6.30 pm. Try Me For Treason: readings from speeches by anti-war protesters in Russian courts, and discussion. Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL. REGISTER to attend here.
Thursday 5th February, 6.30 pm. Try Me For Treason: readings from speeches by anti-war protesters in Russian courts, and discussion. Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL. REGISTER to attend here.
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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.
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