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In this week’s bulletin: Trade union statement on 1000 days since invasion/ How oil profiteers helped the Kremlin on Kazakh pipeline/ Opinion poll on war in Ukraine/ Russia’s runaway regiment/ Russian persecution of children and other violations/ Russian execution of Ukrainian POWs
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Crimean Tatar children’s mag editor Ediye Muslimova abducted (Ukrainska Pravda, 22 November)
Solidarity needed with Ukrainian artist sentenced to 15 years for protesting Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 22nd)
19-year-old from Russian-occupied Luhansk faces 15-year sentence for donation to Ukraine’s Azov Regiment (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 22nd)
The international conference Crimea Global (Zmina, November 21st)
The procedures for the recognition of the education of young people from temporarily occupied territories must be adopted: HRDs made a statement (Zmina, November 21st)
Russia forcibly conscripts Mariupol lads into its invading army (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 20th)
One-year prison sentence in Russian-occupied Crimea for the words ‘Glory to Ukraine’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 19th)
Russian invaders destroy ‘anti-Russian’ memorials to victims of Holodomor in occupied Kherson oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 18th)
Mariupol woman sentenced to 11 years in Russia’s mass copy-paste ‘spying trials’ against Ukrainians (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 18th)
Sevastopol resident arrested for “Russian army fakes” (Crimean Human Rights Group, 11 November)
The situation at the front:
Russians execute five captured Ukrainian soldiers near Vuhledar (Ukrainska Pravda, November 22nd)
Number of executions of Ukrainian POWs increases every month – Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office (Ukrainska Pravda, November 22nd)
News from Ukraine – general:
Ukraine assesses environmental damage since full-scale invasion (Ukrainska Pravda, 19 November)
Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War (Gallup, November 19th)
Important discussions and Maksym Butkevych’s speech: highlights from the fifth “Georgi Gongadze Media Days Awards” (Zmina, November 17th)
Human rights event for Empty Chairs Day held in Kyiv (Centre for Civil Liberties, November 15th)
War-related news from Russia:
Putin’s pipeline: How the Kremlin outmaneuvered Western oil companies to wrest control of vast flows of Kazakhstan’s crude (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, November 22nd)
“If nothing changes here, I will never leave prison”. Ilya Baburin’s story (Solidarity Zone, 22 Nov)
More than 1000 Russian servicemen went AWOL. The Runaway Regiment (IStories, 19 November)
A Memorial Concert for Pavel Kushnir (Russian Reader, November 19th)
“We broke into homes, looted supermarkets, acting like savages”: Confessions of a Russian Marine who fought in the Kursk Region (The Insider, November 19th)
Playing the victim: the Shlosberg controversy (The Russian Reader, 18 November)
Russia’s soldiers bringing wartime violence back home (BBC, November 17th)
Analysis and comment:
On the 1000th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 20 November)
On 1000 days: Who will name the war? (Neque Detestari, 20 November)
Proposed US Landmine Transfers Gravely Threaten Civilians (Human Rights Watch, November 20th)
Grim milestone of 1,000 days since Russia launched full-scale armed attack (UN Commissioner for Human Rights, November 19th)
Türk condemns Russian attacks on energy network, renews call for Russian withdrawal (UN Commissioner for Human Rights, November 18th)
Research of human rights abuses:
Ukraine and the International Criminal Court: a guide for survivors (Zmina, November 23rd)
Cases of deportation occurred in 2014, but the world did not pay attention to it – Alena Lunova (Zmina, November 21st)
“He wanted to commit suicide”: relatives of Kremlin political prisoners shared their stories with participants of Crimea Global conference (Zmina, November 20th)
Zmina: no justice system can cope with so many war crimes (Zmina, November 18th)
International solidarity:
Support the fundraiser for Rouslan Sidiki’s legal defence (Solidarity Zone, 20 November)
Gathering aid for displaced persons in Dobropillia (Solidarity Collectives, November 18th)
Upcoming events:
Saturday 30 November, 1.0pm, central London. “Eyewitness Report from Frontline Ukraine – Discussion on Next Steps for Solidarity” – 1pm, Saturday 30 November, central London – register by clicking here. Find out more about the USC humanitarian mission to frontline regions. Four volunteers drove more than 3000 km, packed with aid for the 10th Paramilitary Mining Rescue Squad and the Free Trade Union of Education to assist a school in Kirivohrad.
Saturday 15 February 2025 11AM — 4PM, Conference: End the Russian invasion and occupation. National Education Union, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD. Register here.
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