Ukraine Solidarity Group ✊ A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 1-September-2026.
In this week’s bulletin
⬤ US solidarity call.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Four Years Since Death of Sviatoslav Aleksapolskyi, Hero of Ukraine (Crimea Platform, August 29th)
Face of Resistance: The Story of Political Prisoner Amet Suleymanov (Crimea Platform, August 28th)
Osman Arifmemetov marks his 41 birthday behind bars (Crimea Platform, August 28th)
23-year sentences for alleged resistance to Russian invaders in occupied Donetsk oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 28th)
Russia seeks to rewrite Ukrainian history through tanks, ‘referendums’ at gunpoint and falsified school textbooks (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 28th)
Brutality unlimited as Russia sentences 74-year-old to 14 years, 70-year-old to 15 years for loyalty to Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 27th)
Abdulmedjit Seytumerov’s birthday: Three Years Behind Bars (Crimea Platform, August 27th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, August 26th)
Russian invaders call patriotism ‘treason’ in latest savage 18-year sentence in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 26th)
Seized over a photo: Russia has held Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko prisoner for over 3 years (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 25th)
Progress of the war
Fears in west that Putin wants further escalation (Meduza, 31 August)
Kyiv under daytime Russian drone attack (Ukrainska Pravda, August 30)
A bridge, missiles and billions in revenue: North Korea’s role in Russia’s war deepens again (Kyiv Independent, August 28)
News from Ukraine
August 29 — Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine Who Died in the Struggle for Ukraine’s Independence, Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity (Crimea Platform, August 29th)
Operation Forrest Gump: anti-corruption agencies target Ukrainian criminal money laundering operation (Ukrainska Pravda, August 28)
Ukraine anti-corruption agencies charge businessman in raiding case (Kyiv Independent, August 28)
Petition urging Zelensky to talk to independent media (Kyiv Independent August 28)
Ukraine MP charged in graft case flees abroad (Kyiv Independent August 28)
Despite frustration, majority of Ukrainians want future in NATO (Kyiv Independent August 28)
What Ukraine’s energy system got done this summer – and won’t finish before winter (Zn.Ua, August 27)
Beyond refuge: how Lviv is adapting to displacement (New Eastern Europe, August 26th)
Jail sentence for Ukrainian Trotskyist is an assault on free speech (People and Nature, August 24th)
War-related news from Russia
Running on empty: Russia’s fuel shortage is here to stay (The Insider, 31 August)
Russia’s second biggest refinery targeted by Ukraine forces (Kyiv Independent August 30)
Russia’s Rostov oblast declares emergency over Black Sea exports (Ukrainska Pravda, August 29)
Food for naught: Russia's war has left grain producers close to bankruptcy (The Insider, August 28th)
Political prisoner Andrei Trofimov has appeared in court, but is not out of danger (People and Nature, August 28th)
Kursk, 2024: what happened to Russian conscripts (iStories, 27 August)
Unhealthy Lifestyle (The Russian Reader, August 27th)
Healthcare in wartime: how women’s labour is changing (Posle.Media, 26 August)
Russian employers less likely to hire veterans who volunteered for Ukraine war (Prio, August 25th)
Kazakh refinery to process Russian crude and send fuel back to Russia (Kyiv Independent, August 25)
Comment and analysis
Ukraine needs international solidarity as Russia escalates (Ukraine Solidarity Network US, 31 August)
Aleksandr Podrabinek: Space can’t kill puppets (The Russian Reader, 28 August)
From social media to politics: Poland’s Ukraine debate (New Eastern Europe, August 24th)
Research of human rights abuses
Lithuania allocates €600,000 to rescue abducted Ukrainian children (Kyiv Independent, August 30)
First trial in Ukraine of a Russian POW for rape as war crime ends in 12-year sentence (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 25th)
International solidarity
Campaign: free imprisoned Zaporizhzhya nuclear workers (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 27 August)
Aid Ukraine: Build the Convoy (International Viewpoint, August 27th)
Also not to be missed
Kremlin-friendly AfD eyes election victory in Germany (Kyiv Independent August 30)
Poland: Russian intelligence officers on the streets (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 27 August)
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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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