Ukraine Information Group

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources

News from the territories occupied by Russia:

Russian occupation authorities bring young people to Kherson to paint over Ukrainian symbols – Military Administration   (Ukrainska Pravda, August 19^th)

Jail or steep fines in Russian-occupied Crimea for playing a Ukrainian anti-war song or for saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’  (KHPG, August 18^th)

Russian occupiers in Luhansk Oblast offer food for information on men’s whereabouts, detain fathers outside kindergartens  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 18th)

Invaders again abducts head of hromada in Kherson Oblast – deputy chairman of Regional Council  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 17^th)

Russia razes Ukrainian city to the ground and says ‘there’s no point’ to rebuilding it  (KHPG, August 15^th)

Over 100,000 Mariupol residents trapped in dire conditions under Russian occupation  (August 12^th, Kyiv Independent)

Pseudo-Referendums in the Invaded Territories: what Russia plans to do and how to disable them – Opora, 10 August

Why does russia abduct children and how does Ukraine combat it – Opora, 10 August

News from Ukraine – general:

Russia kills and maims children in Kharkiv and claims it ‘destroyed mercenaries’  (KHPG, August 19^th)

Morning in Kharkiv: 5 Russian missiles strike local university and houses, killing 1 woman – Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 19^th)

Blast effects: James Meek reports from Mykolaiv (London Review of Books, August 18)

162 churches and 44 libraries: how many cultural sites were destroyed by Russians during war  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 13^th)

“Throw them all, bitch, under the bus!”: SSU releases evidence of a criminal order to shoot civilians  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 10^th)

Key problems of protection of rights of war-affected people – solution from human rights defenders  (August 10^th)

Russia destroys over 9,000 civilian targets in Mykolaiv Oblast  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 9^th)

News from Ukraine – schools and education:

Russian missiles hit educational institutions in Kramatorsk and Mykolaiv  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 19th)

Blasts rock Mykolaiv as two Russian S-300 missiles strike local university – Mykolaiv Mayor  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 19th)

War deprives over 3,000 Ukrainian children of parental care (Ukrainska Pravda, August 12^th)

Russians do not allow children from occupied territories to take National Multi-Subject Test – Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine  (Ukrainska Pravda, August 8^th)

Analysis:

“I wanted Ukrainian activists involved in the war to have the opportunity to respond to the questions and criticisms that are often made by the left in Europe.”  (ESSF, August 9^th)

Lenin, Ukraine, and the Amnesia of the “Anti-war Left”  (New Politics, Summer 2022)

Ukraine could abandon key labour principle as part of EU drive  (Open Democracy, August 9^th)

The EU’s plan for Ukraine hydrogen exports is colonialist greenwash  (Open Democracy, August 9th)