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In this week’s bulletin: More evidence of Russia’s religious persecution, torture and death in captivity, execution of its own troops and deliberate targeting of civilians.
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Mass detentions four times as Crimean Tatar delegation heads to Moscow demanding justice (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group October 31st)
Remembrance of the Holodomor banned, but not crushed, in Russian-occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group October 31st)
Face of Resistance: The Story of Crimean Tatar Activist Ayder Dzhapparov (Crimea Platform October 31st)
Russia Tightens Censorship in Temporarily Occupied Crimea: Residents Forced to Switch to the Controlled Messenger “МАХ” (Crimea Platform October 30th)
Russian invaders’ ‘court’ sentences Ukrainian to 12. 5 years for patriotism (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group October 29th)
70-year-old Crimean Jehovah’s Witness convicted of ‘organizing an extremist organization’ for practising her faith (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group October 28th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea on October 28, 2025 (Crimea Platform October 28th)
From 17-year sentence to death in Russian captivity for Crimean Tatar political prisoner accused of another person’s voice on a tape? (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group October 27th)
News from the front and ‘peace’ negotiations:
Could Russia occupy all of Donbas in a year? And what if Ukraine’s `fortress belt’ falls? (Meduza October 31st)
One of the largest cities to see major fighting after 2022 (Tribunal for Putin October 28th)
The Imminent Threat (Tribunal for Putin October 20th)
News from Ukraine:
Crimea Days in Ivano-Frankivsk Region: Partnership, Culture, and Memory as a Path to Reintegration (Crimea Platform November 1st)
Interview series about injuries and traumas – Ervin (Solidarity Collectives October 28th)
Media in times of instability: a networking event for journalists was held in Kyiv (Zmina October 27th)
Advocacy, fundraising, interaction with state and international institutions: training for families of prisoners and missing persons was held in Kyiv (Zmina October 27th)
War-related news from Russia:
2.5 years in solitary (Solidarity Collectives, November 1st)
“The sky is falling?”: Company linked to Russian oligarch Deripaska bought American Swiwin engines for use in jet-powered Shahed drones (The Insider, October 30th)
Who’s afraid of guitars? (IPS, October 30th)
Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says (The Guardian, October 30th)
`Zeroed Out’: How Russian army officers are executing their own men – and getting away with it (Meduza October 29th)
“They aren’t letting us go”. Russian cadets lured into military service with no way out (I-Stories October 29th)
Raising the Pressure: Trump is hitting Russia with sanctions that even Biden shied away from. Can its war-weary economy handle them? (Meduza October 28th)
A big dam disaster: Russian authorities urge evacuation after Ukrainian strike on Belgorod dam sparks flood risk (Meduza October 27th)
The big Aidar case: 18 captured Ukrainians and their path from Donetsk torture to Rostov sentences (Mediazona October 27th)
“We Wanted to Show the Whole Range of Anti-War Resistance in Russia” (Posle, October 22nd)
Analysis and comment:
Kremlin customer service: The Insider identifies the top 30 customs brokers facilitating sanctioned imports to Russia (The Insider, October 31st)
October 31 — International Black Sea Day (Crimea Platform October 31st)
Galina Rymbu, An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana (Media Resistance Group, October 30th)
The “Liberation” Narrative as a Means of Legitimizing Aggression and Advancing Russia’s Totalitarian Agenda (Crimea Platform October 30th)
What is socialist foreign policy? (Discussion of Ukraine starts after 48 minutes) (Bluesky October 29th)
Why Ukraine Shouldn’t Wait for Its Own Nuremberg: Key Takeaways from the Public Discussion and Book Presentation (Centre for Civil Liberties October 28th)
Ukraine’s progress on the path to the EU: Shadow Report was presented in Kyiv (Zmina October 24th)
Social radicalism of Taras Shevchenko & Brotherhood (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation May 28th)
Research of human rights abuses:
The Story of Eskender Kudusov, a Crimean Marine Illegally Sentenced to Almost 30 Years of Imprisonment (Crimea Platform October 29th)
Suppression of the Right to Peaceful Assembly in Crimea: Analysis of the Application of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation by Occupation Courts (Crimea Platform October 29th)
Russian authorities committed crimes against humanity targeting civilian population through drone attacks as well as war crimes of forcible transfer and deportation of civilians (UNHCR, October 28th)
Russia kills two 16-year-olds, tortures and imprisons three other lads from occupied Melitopol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group October 27th)
Russian army committing murder in Ukraine: Independent rights commission (UNHCR October 27th)
Uncle Vanya, Bizon, San Sanych — who tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war? (Tribunal for Putin October 25th)
International solidarity:
Third International Conference “Crimea Global: Understanding Ukraine through the South” (Crimea Platform October 28th)
ZMINA took part in a multimedia exhibition in Chile focused on deported Ukrainian children (Zmina October 24th)
Upcoming events (timings are GMT)
Monday 3rd November, 7.00pm – 9.00pm: Unison Scotland branches Kharkiv delegation report back (online)
Tuesday 4th November, 5.00pm Hanna Perekhoda `Russian War in Ukraine: Its Origins and Ramifications’ (online)
Saturday 8th November, 2.00pm Ukrainian Roma in the Army (online discussion organised by the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) and others)
Thursday 20th November, 6.30pm: Try Me for Treason – readings of speeches from Russia’s courts / Book launch for Voices against Putin’s war. Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London E1 5QJ. Ukraine Information Group.
Saturday 6th December, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign will be holding its Annual General Meeting
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