In this week’s bulletin
⬤ Ivanka ‘Hayka’ Kutsenko killed.
⬤ Miners’ union and union federation appeals over Russian attacks.
⬤ Religious terror in occupied territories.
⬤ Widespread Russian attacks on civilians.
News from the territories occupied by Russia
Russia sentences Yalta musician to 22 years for latest claim of a ‘Ukrainian terrorist plot’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 2nd)
Melitopol woman sentenced to 13 years for unwavering loyalty to Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 2nd)
Russia: A Menu of Death in Ukraine’s Small Towns (Centre for European Policy Analysis, October 1st)
Four years in total isolation after Russia abducts and tortures young Mariupol woman Iryna Navalna (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 30th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, September 29th)
Russia throws dying Crimean Tatar political prisoner into a punishment cell (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 29th)
Crimean sentenced to 20 years on a ‘confession’ she signed after Russian FSB threatened to imprison her underage son (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 28th)
Progress of the war
Russia striking bridges across the Dnipro for the first time (Meduza, 4 October)
Drone attacks disrupt power supply near Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant (Kyiv Independent, 3 Oct)
The winter war: Ukraine is prepping for another season of Russian attacks before the cold sets in (The Insider, October 3rd)
A Time to Reap: Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi (Centre for European Policy Analysis, October 2nd)
New York Times claims Russia plans to cripple Ukraine power grid (Meduza, 2 October)
“Do you know what the Oleshki morgue is?” – what a humanitarian disaster looks like (New Eastern Europe, October 2nd)
Ukraine strikes defence plants, oil facilities in Russia (Kyiv Independent 28 Sept)
News from Ukraine
Ivanka ‘Hayka’ Kutsenko was killed (Solidarity Collectives, 2 October) / Interview with ‘Hayka’ (Solidarity Collectives, 2 October) / Tributes from ‘Hayka’s comrades on facebook here and here
US-Ukraine fund signs first mineral deal worth $30 million (Zn.ua, 3 October)
Natalia escaped from Oleshky with her 84-year-old mother (Babel, September 29th)
Zelensky staffer’s associates get property worth $1 million (Kyiv Independent, 29 Sept)
Over 70% of Ukrainians hold Zelensky responsible for corruption amongst his allies (Kyiv Independent, 28 Sept)
War-related news from Russia
‘They are waiting for me to die’: political prisoner, released due to cancer, is locked up again (Mediazona, 2 October)
A useful ritual: Why authoritarian regimes still need elections — and why Russia’s model is weakening (The Insider, October 1st)
Enough for two more years of war: Russia’s economy just won’t slip into recession (Ukrainska Pravda, 30 Sept)
Comment and analysis
Miners’ Union Appeals over Intensified Russian Attacks on Ukrainian Workers and Trade Unions (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, October 2nd)
Appeal to international labour movement (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 30 September)
Research of human rights abuses
Russia’s methodical use of starvation in Oleshky (Kyiv Independent, 1 Oct)
Religious Terror in the Temporarily Occupied Territories (International Partnership for Human Rights, September 2026)
Also not to be missed
The Everywhere War: sub-threshold warfare tracker (Sahaidachnyi Security Centre, October)
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