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A Digest of News from Ukrainian sources
In this week’s bulletin: Two Armies in One: the Russians in Ukraine; plus more evidence of Russian torture, violations of children’s rights and attacks on religious freedom; plus ‘normalisation’ of war & social tension in Ukraine
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Ukrainian priest abducted and tortured to death in Russian-occupied Kherson oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 16th)
Insane sentence and 18 months of agonizing silence after Russia abducts two friends for opposing its war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 16th)
Nothing is sacred (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 16th)
10 years of resistance: an event about a decade of human rights violations in the occupied Crimea takes place in Brussels (Zmina, February 16th)
Crimean lawyer Emil Kurbedinov detained again (Crimea SOS, 15 February)
Russian crimes in the newly occupied territories (Crimea SOS, 14 February)
Ukrainian journalist abducted, tortured and sentenced to 13 years for writing about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 14th)
80-year-old wheelchair-bound Ukrainian rescued after being left without a pension for refusing to take Russian citizenship (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 13th)
Letters to Free Crimea: an initiative to support political prisoners will be launched in Ukraine and abroad (Zmina, February 13th)
Russia outlaws major Crimean Tatar human rights group which exposes its repression and calls for liberation of Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 13th)
71-year-old Ukrainian seized on fake ‘spying’ charges dies in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 12th)
News from Ukraine – general:
Viktoriia Pihul (Social Movement, Ukraine): ‘The normalisation of full-scale war has seen the return of political confrontation’ (Links, February 15th)
“Tensions are building… due to the neoliberal policies imposed by the government” (International Viewpoint, February 13th)
Whole family with three children among those burned to death in Russian drone attack on Kharkiv (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 12th)
War-related news from Russia:
Sergei Karmazin threatened with life sentence for rail sabotage (Solidarity Zone, 16 February)
Russian reservists’ families: “Criminals know their service terms. We don’t” (Posle Media, 14 February)
Ukraine’s missing children tracked down in Russia by digital sleuths (BBC, February 9th)
Analysis and comment:
Two Armies in One: James Meek on Russians in Ukraine (London Review of Books, Feb 22nd)
“Selectivity in international criminal law has always been a major problem”: interview with Patryk Labuda (Commons.com, February 16th)
Slovak prime minister’s statements about Ukraine unpacked (Meduza, 14 February)
Obituary: Dmitry Petrov – the path of an anarchist (Commons.com.ua, 13 February)
Why Putin invaded: a socialist analysis (Labour Hub, February 12th)
The environmental health impacts of Russia’s war (National Library of Medicine, January 5th)
Research of human rights abuses:
Starlight Media & Opora launch information campaign on Russian war crimes (Opora, Feb 16)
‘It’s a kilometre to run through unexploded shells to get to the well. . . ’ (Tribunal for Putin, February 16th)
Major report on Russia’s devastation of Mariupol demands that Putin and military leaders are held to answer (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 15th)
Team trained on investigating war crimes (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 13th)
‘I am running away from the war, but it’s catching up with me,’ — a resident of Kramatorsk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 13th)
The first trial in the USA about war-crimes in Ukraine (Tribunal for Putin, February 12th)
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned violations of the rights of Ukrainian children by the Russian Federation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 12th)
Memories of Halyna Haiova, a torture survivor of the infamous Izolyatsia prison (Zmina, February 5th)
International solidarity:
Wales labour movement delivers vehicles and supplies to Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 17 February)
#MakeRussiaPay. A petition on confiscation of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine (Centre for Civil Liberties, February 15th)
Be like Nina! – campaign (Ukraine Solidarity, February 2024)
Upcoming solidarity actions in the UK:
Saturday 24 February TWO YEARS OF RESISTANCE Solidarity with Ukraine – End the occupation – Russian troops out
EDINBURGH: 13:00, Protest at Russian Consulate, 58 Melville Street, EH3 7HF – Details here
LONDON: 13:30, Demonstration from Marble Arch to Trafalgar Square
NOTTINGHAM: 14:00, Demonstration from Speakers’ Corner / Clough statue. – Details here
Saturday 24 February, 4.0pm UK time. An on-line “assembly against the war and its logic”. Organised by Permanent Assembly Against the War.
Thursday 29 February, 8.0pm – Meeting on zoom. “The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left” Chair: John McDonnell MP. Speakers: Anastasia Ryabchuk and Denys Pilash (editors at Commons), Fred Leplat (Resistance Books). Zoom link here
Thursday 7 March – Evening – Fundraiser Showing of 20 Days in Mariupol – for medical aid appeal for at Novovlynysnk Central Hospital at The Garden Cinema, London.
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