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In this week’s bulletin: Risks in Ukraine’s citizenship law/ Trade union house grab/ Life under occupation/ Stop Seapeak campaign/ War & dependent state formation in Ukraine/ More evidence of Russia’s indoctrination of small children/ Massive increase in Russian attacks on civilians
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Political prisoner Rustam Sheikhaliev turns 46, his sixth birthday behind bars (Crimea Platform, 22 June)
Banned from home for 40 years: deportations are Russia’s latest move to ‘cleanse’ Ukraine (The Guardian, June 21st)
7-year-olds in occupied Ukraine taught how to become part of Russia’s war machine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 20th)
Crimean sentenced to 17 years ‘for planning to blow up a Russian military helicopter’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group,June 20th)
Russian threat to co-founder of Crimea Human Rights Group (Crimea Human Rights Group, 19 June)
Russian court ignores abduction and torture, increasing huge sentence against Ukrainian for trying to rescue his mother (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group,June 19th)
Russia sentences 19-year-old Ukrainian to 8 years for ‘spying for Ukraine’ as a young boy (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group,June 19th)
New legislation formalizes Russia’s brutal isolation of Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group,June 17th)
How Putin rules in occupied Ukraine (Workers Liberty, June 16th)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, May 2025)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, April 2025)
News from the front:
Sumy defences stabilised: weekly war report (The Insider, 21 June)
News from Ukraine:
Speeches in the Verkhovna Rada: Expropriation of the trade union house (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, 20 June)
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko: The President’s Rival (Meduza, 17 June)
UN monitors report massive increase in Russian attacks on civilians throughout Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group,June 16th)
Over 1,900 tonnes of harmful substances released into air over Kyiv and oblast in two days of Russian attacks (Ukrainska Pravda, June 16th)
Ukraine bracing for ‘painful’ reduction in US military aid after Hegseth announces cuts (Kyiv Independent, June 11th)
War-related news from Russia:
St Petersburg forum: an economic reality check (Meduza, 20 June)
Russian anti-war volunteer sentenced to 22 years (Novaya Gazeta Europe, 20 June)
How a network for selling sex with teenagers to the rich and powerful was built in Russia (iStories, 19 June)
Court claims show Russian casualties: The wave of the missing (Mediazona, 5 June)
Analysis and comment:
Migration Policy of Ukraine: Legal Regulation and European Integration (Opora, June 20th)
Risks in Ukraine’s draft law on multiple citizenship (Crimea Human Rights Group, 17 June)
Position of human rights defenders: the draft law on multiple citizenship creates threats for residents of the occupied territories (Zmina,June 17th)
Volodymyr Artiukh and Taras Fedirko: War and dependent state formation in Ukraine (Berghahn Journals, 2025)
Housing Needs and Prospects for Social Housing in the Kalush Hromada (Cedos, June 19th)
Research of human rights abuses:
ZMINA highlights the need for accountability at Central and Eastern Europe Security Forum in Warsaw (Zmina,June 17th)
ZMINA joined the development of the Roadmap for the investigation of crimes against humanity committed by Russian forces in Ukraine (Zmina,June 16th)
International solidarity:
Australia sanctions on Russian “shadow fleet” (Crimea Platform, 17 June)
Russian fossil fuel exports: Stop Seapeak campaign (Ukraine Solidarity campaign Scotland, 16 June)
Upcoming event:
Thursday, June 26th, from 7:30 to 9:00 PM GMT, on line. Report back from solidarity visits to Ukraine. Speakers: Mike Kearney (NEU Ukraine Solidarity Network); Rui Palma (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Steering Committee). Register for Zoom link.
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