In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Ukraine’s military recruitment crisis.
⬤ China sends message.
⬤ Iron Man returns.
⬤ Kharkiv Hell’s Kitchen.
⬤ Occupied territories report.
⬤ Russia indoctrinates children.
⬤ Russia tortures prisoners to death & commits other systematic torture.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
New Russian school textbook shows unoccupied Ukrainian territory as ‘Russia’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 29th)
Melitopol couple tortured in pre-trial detention (Mediazona, 29 May)
The Face of Resistance: Crimean Political Prisoner Volodymyr Maladyka (Crimea Platform, May 29th)
The health of Crimean prisoner Dmytro Shtyblikov has deteriorated sharply (Crimea Human Rights Group, 28 May)
Crimean Tatar political prisoner illegally returned to Russian captivity and denied treatment for cancer (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 28th)
Savagely tortured, then sentenced by the Russians to 13 years for letters to her Ukrainian defender son (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 27th)
Health of woman, 68, imprisoned by Russia, worsens (Ukrainska Pravda, May 26th)
“In the ‘DPR’ torture chambers, they used electric shocks and filed teeth” (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 26th)
Disinformation as a weapon against cultural rights (Crimea Human Rights Group, 26 May)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, May 26th)
Russia brings new ‘treason’ charges against young Crimean Tatar political prisoner after months of torture (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 26th)
Russia sentences Ukrainian military pensioner to 18 years after itself admitting there were no grounds to imprison him (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 25th)
Massive sentences against Yalta couple two years after Krystyna Markova was abducted by the FSB and vanished (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 25th)
April 2026 report: Life Under Occupation (AlterPravo, 12 May)
News from the front
Russia spends a year and hundreds of lives to capture a Ukrainian village. And fails (Meduza, 29 May)
“No gas, no electricity, no heat. They won’t survive another winter”: Ukraine set to evacuate residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky (The Insider, May 27th)
Ukraine’s Achilles’ heel: How Kyiv is overcoming its military recruitment crisis (The Insider, May 25th)
News from Ukraine
Military medic Oleksandr Krokhmaliuk tortured to death in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 29th)
Forged from hell on earth: Hell’s kitchen in Kharkiv (Ukrainer, 28 May)
Russia hits Kyiv with hypersonic ballistic missile in ‘deranged’ attack (Guardian, May 24th)
Civil society on a dual front in Ukraine (International Viewpoint, May 23rd)
War-related news from Russia
Armenia: Moscow turns the screw on Yerevan (Mediazona, 29 May)
Mapping power: Russia’s “game of thrones” (iStories, 29 May)
Propaganda film teaches Ukrainian children to “love life in Russia” (Meduza, 29 May)
Dzerzhinsky statue: The Iron Man Returns (Riddle, 13 May 2026)
Analysis and comment
Andriy Melnik: a fascist’s state funeral in a non-fascist state (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres, 29 May)
Ukraine: Türk warns against dangerous escalation and urges return to negotiations (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, May 28th)
Playing host to Putin and Trump, China sends a message (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres, 21 May)
Research of human rights abuses
Statement of the Human Rights Centre ZMINA on the development of the Action Plan for the implementation of the National Human Rights Strategy (Zmina, May 28th)
The Expert Opinion (Amicus Curiae) of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in Criminal Proceedings No. 42025000000001123 (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 26th)
International solidarity
Humanitarian aid report (Solidarity Collectives, 25 May)
News from the territories occupied by Russia
New Russian school textbook shows unoccupied Ukrainian territory as ‘Russia’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 29th)
Melitopol couple tortured in pre-trial detention (Mediazona, 29 May)
The Face of Resistance: Crimean Political Prisoner Volodymyr Maladyka (Crimea Platform, May 29th)
The health of Crimean prisoner Dmytro Shtyblikov has deteriorated sharply (Crimea Human Rights Group, 28 May)
Crimean Tatar political prisoner illegally returned to Russian captivity and denied treatment for cancer (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 28th)
Savagely tortured, then sentenced by the Russians to 13 years for letters to her Ukrainian defender son (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 27th)
Health of woman, 68, imprisoned by Russia, worsens (Ukrainska Pravda, May 26th)
“In the ‘DPR’ torture chambers, they used electric shocks and filed teeth” (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 26th)
Disinformation as a weapon against cultural rights (Crimea Human Rights Group, 26 May)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, May 26th)
Russia brings new ‘treason’ charges against young Crimean Tatar political prisoner after months of torture (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 26th)
Russia sentences Ukrainian military pensioner to 18 years after itself admitting there were no grounds to imprison him (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 25th)
Massive sentences against Yalta couple two years after Krystyna Markova was abducted by the FSB and vanished (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 25th)
April 2026 report: Life Under Occupation (AlterPravo, 12 May)
News from the front
Russia spends a year and hundreds of lives to capture a Ukrainian village. And fails (Meduza, 29 May)
“No gas, no electricity, no heat. They won’t survive another winter”: Ukraine set to evacuate residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky (The Insider, May 27th)
Ukraine’s Achilles’ heel: How Kyiv is overcoming its military recruitment crisis (The Insider, May 25th)
News from Ukraine
Military medic Oleksandr Krokhmaliuk tortured to death in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 29th)
Forged from hell on earth: Hell’s kitchen in Kharkiv (Ukrainer, 28 May)
Russia hits Kyiv with hypersonic ballistic missile in ‘deranged’ attack (Guardian, May 24th)
Civil society on a dual front in Ukraine (International Viewpoint, May 23rd)
War-related news from Russia
Armenia: Moscow turns the screw on Yerevan (Mediazona, 29 May)
Mapping power: Russia’s “game of thrones” (iStories, 29 May)
Propaganda film teaches Ukrainian children to “love life in Russia” (Meduza, 29 May)
Dzerzhinsky statue: The Iron Man Returns (Riddle, 13 May 2026)
Analysis and comment
Andriy Melnik: a fascist’s state funeral in a non-fascist state (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres, 29 May)
Ukraine: Türk warns against dangerous escalation and urges return to negotiations (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, May 28th)
Playing host to Putin and Trump, China sends a message (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres, 21 May)
Research of human rights abuses
Statement of the Human Rights Centre ZMINA on the development of the Action Plan for the implementation of the National Human Rights Strategy (Zmina, May 28th)
The Expert Opinion (Amicus Curiae) of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group in Criminal Proceedings No. 42025000000001123 (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, May 26th)
International solidarity
Humanitarian aid report (Solidarity Collectives, 25 May)
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