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News from Ukraine Bulletin 110 (19 August 2024)
A Digest of News from Ukrainian sources – also attached as a PDF
In this week’s bulletin: interviews with supporters of Crimean Tatar political prisoners; plus challenging anti-communism among Ukrainian Canadians; plus Russia’s punitive sentencing; plus Russian torture; plus Russia’s targeting of hospitals
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Crimea’s Tatars: “they drive us from our homes, just like they did to our grandparents 80 years ago” (People & Nature, 16 August)
Relentless brutality against Crimean Tatar civic activist sentenced to 19 years for refusing to leave Crimea and his family (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 16th)
New law brings Russia closer to mobilizing Ukrainians on occupied territory to fight against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 16th)
Crimean political prisoner Asan Akhtemov (Crimea Platform, X, August 16th)
A review of Crimea reporting in English-language media (Crimea Human Rights Group, 15 August)
Russia may imprison 68-year-old for her faith after armed raids on Jehovah’s Witnesses in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 15th)
Russia sentences Ukrainian to 12 years on fake Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant ‘terrorism’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 14th)
Abducted and tortured 56-year-old Ukrainian’s life in danger after two years of Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 13th)
‘The Russians deliberately took Ukrainian children out in groups’ (Trinbunal for Putin, August 12th)
Crimean Tatar businessman abducted and imprisoned for supporting blockade of Russian-occupied Crimea 9 years ago (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 12th)
News from the front:
Report from Kursk: “We lost territory while they sent Moscow encouraging news” (The Insider, 17 August)
“Sheer madness”: the fire at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant (Meduza, 16 August)
Ukrainian offensive in Kursk: “No obstacles – just drive forward” (Important Stories, 12 August)
News from Ukraine – general:
Ukraine is still pumping Russian gas and financing the war against itself. Will this continue in 2025? (Ukrainska Pravda, August 15th)
Ever-mounting death toll of Russia’s state-sponsored medical terror against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 12th)
In the center of Odesa, a street photo exhibition “Crimea through the eyes of citizen journalists: 10 years in captivity” was shown (Zmina, August 12th)
“Living in a shelter means not living your own separate human life”. Report on two-and-a-half years of work, and why shelter is closing (Feminist Workshop, 9 August)
Analysis and comment:
How to Challenge Anti-Communism among Ukrainian-Canadians (Victor’s Children podcast, August 17th)
Builders in solidarity. A rambunctious Russian-speaking union shakes up Swedish labour movement (Meduza, 16 August)
A Vision of Victory (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 13th)
War-related news from Russia:
Russian artist released in prisoner swap builds new life (The Press Democrat, 12 August)
Oleg Orlov: the veteran dissident who accepted jail to ‘show there is resistance inside Russia’ (Guardian, August 11th)
Russian dissident tells BBC he thought he would die in ‘Putin’s prison’ (BBC, August 5th)
Upcoming events
Saturday 7 September. Ukraine Solidarity Campaign annual general meeting / conference, in London. Register here.
We will not be doing a bulletin next week. The next one will appear on Monday 2 September.
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