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In this week’s bulletin: Battle for Pokrovsk/Former PoW Maksym Butkevich interviewed/ Ukrainian ex-prisoner at Syria’s Sednaya prison/ Ukrainian reports on aid mission to Gaza/ Decades of Russian gas transit through Ukraine ends/ Ukrainians in occupied territories stripped of rights
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Ukrainians treated as ‘foreigners’ and stripped of all rights in Russian-occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 3rd)
Ukrainian living in Russia sentenced to 13 years on ‘treason’ charge for sending money to family in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 3rd)
58-year-old Sevastopol activist sentenced to 15 years for opposing Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 30th)
Russia blocks YouTube and VPN in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Prot’n Group, 30 Dec)
Russians establish drone assembly classes in schools in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine (Ukrainska Pravda, December 28th)
Mustafa Dzhemilev: Russia’s occupation of Crimea spells the death of the Crimean Tatar people and forced exile (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 27th)
Russia stages fake ‘saboteur’ trial after abducting 56-year-old Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant employee (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 27th)
Ukrainian sentenced to 22 years as ‘rail partisan’ in Russian-occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 26th)
Russian invaders abduct 53-year-old Ukrainian and sentence her to 9 years on insane ‘international terrorism’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 24th)
Life under Russian occupation (Labour Hub, December 23rd)
Same fake ‘secret witness’ used in multiple Russian ‘trials’ of Crimean Tatar civic journalists and activists (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 23rd)
The situation at the front:
A year-long defence crisis: Russia and Ukraine brace for battle of Pokrovsk (Meduza, 30 December)
News from Ukraine – general:
Ukraine, a Late-Capitalist War Effort (Jacobin, December 27th)
121 dead — Losses of Civil Society and Media Over Three Years of Full-Scale Invasion: ZMINA Presented a Memorial Report (Zmina, December 27th)
Russia to Use Political, Financial, and Informational Influence to Interfere With the Post-War Elections in Ukraine. The Government Needs to Counteract Now (Opora, December 16th)
War-related news from Russia:
“My own classmates turned me in”: How Russian universities are cracking down on anti-war activists (The Insider, January 4th)
Russia shoots down Santa Claus (The Russian Reader, 27 December)
Exposed in Yekaterinburg: Serial Denouncer Denounced (The Russian Reader, 26 December)
“He Was Buried in a Day Like a Dog” (Important Stories, December 24th)
Analysis and comment:
Interview with former PoW Maksym Butkevich: And yet he remained a human (Zeit Online, January 4th)
Breaking the chain: the end of decades-long Russian gas transit through Ukraine (Meduza, 3 January)
I survived a Russian torture camp. So I had to see Assad’s Sednaya prison (Kyiv Independent, December 30th)
Oksana Senedzhuk: Ukrainian Activist is Sentenced in Temporarily Occupied Crimea. Statement of Human Rights Organizations (Zmina, December 28th)
The Georgian people against the government (Posle Media, 25 December)
‘Everything is destroyed: it’s unthinkable’. Ukrainian film maker Anton Yaremchuk on a humanitarian mission to Palestine (Commons.com.ua, 2 December)
Research of human rights abuses:
Ukraine names Russian commander suspected of issuing order to kill civilians in Bucha (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 31st)
Invaders gun down more unarmed Ukrainian POWs as proof mounts that such war crimes are Russian state policy (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 23rd)
International solidarity:
The funds for Taras’s car have been raised (Solidarity Collectives, 27 December)
New Year fundraiser: Bring the magic of the New Year to anti-war resistance prisoners! (Solidarity Zone, 27 December)
Upcoming events:
Saturday 18 January 2025, 12.0 midday. National March for Palestine. Assemble BBC, Portland Place, London. Unite the Struggles, Ukraine Information Group and others will march with our banner, “From Ukraine to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime”. Details of assembly point in the new year on our web site or by email.
Saturday 15 February 2025 11AM — 4.0 pm, Conference: End the Russian invasion and occupation. National Education Union, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD. Register here.
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