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In this week’s bulletin: Seapeak sanction-busters stopped/ Russian army refusenik speaks in court/ More Russian torture evidence/ Crimean Tatar genocide recognised/ Pokrovsk in danger/ Civilians’ front-line stories/ Social Movement appeal to workers/ Ukraine anger at corruption
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russia stages new ‘trial’ of savagely tortured Ukrainian partisan already sentenced to 26 years (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 14th)
Crimean woman sentenced to 5. 5 years for social media criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 13th)
Ukraine 10 years ago recognised Crimean Tatars’ Deportation as Genocide (Crimea Platform, November 12th)
“This isn’t the Middle Ages, and we aren’t serfs”: Locals in Ukrainian-controlled parts of Donbas react to Putin’s territorial demands (The Insider, November 12th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, November 11th)
Sentenced to die in immense pain for religious independence in Russian-occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 11th)
Russian FSB uses propaganda and hate speech to justify its terror against Crimean Tatar women (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 10th)
Review: Human rights in Crimea July-September 2025 (Crimea Human Rights Group, 29 October)
News from the front and ‘peace’ negotiations:
Ukraine defenders stop 107 Russian offensives near Pokrovsk (Ukrainska Pravda, November 15th)
Is the fall of Pokrovsk, Ukraine’s key eastern stronghold, inevitable? (Al Jazeera, November 10th)
Kherson: petals of roses and mines (Ukrainer, 10 November)
News from Ukraine:
Cold calculation: Kremlin trying to leave Ukrainians without power in winter again (The Insider, November 14th)
Military support: Ukraine’s creative fundraising ecosystem (Ukrainska Pravda, November 13th)
The president’s men: Zelenskyy’s friends plundered Ukraine in wartime (Ukrainska Pravda, 10 Nov)
The Kudrytskyi Case: Why Presidential Office Persecutes ex Ukrenergo boss (Zerkalo Nedeli, 4 Nov)
War-related news from Russia :
Russian man found guilty – posthumously – under LGBT law (Mediazona, 14 November)
Twenty years on: Timur Kacharava’s murder remembered (The Russian Reader, 14 November)
First arrest under new Russian law over an Internet search for Ukraine’s Azov Regiment (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 14th)
Russia feels the heat from oil sanctions (Meduza, 13 November)
Migrant women and the war: new discriminatory laws (Posle.Media, 12 November)
Russian anti-war prisoner: ‘I just did not want to murder Ukrainian people who have done me no ill’ (People & Nature, 12 November)
The carousel: Russia’s system for re-arresting protesters (Meduza, 12 November)
To force deserters back to war, Russia’s military tortures their families (Meduza, 12 November)
“Thou shalt not idolize your motherland”: Russian Orthodox priests on the war in Ukraine and the degradation of their church (The Insider, November 10th)
Tracked down, coerced, threatened: How Russia hunts down deserters and forces them back to the front lines in Ukraine (The Insider, November 10th)
Analysis and comment:
Free Trade Union of Medical Workers of Ukraine solidarity statement to BMA and UK resident doctors (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, November 15th)
Tribute to Pavel Lisyansky, trade union and human rights activist (Denis Pilash on facebook, 15 November)
On silencing voices from eastern Europe at anarchist events in the EU (Solidarity Collectives, 14 November)
Appeal by Social Movement: Workers, you are important for the future of Ukraine (Ukraine Solidarity EU, November 13th)
The Mineral Deal: The Price of Partnership in the Trump Era (Commons.com, November 12th)
Betrayal or rebirth: Europe’s left wing has adapted to Russia’s war (The Insider, November 11th)
How Polish Politics Turned Solidarity into Suspicion (Balkan insight, November 11th)
Capital vs. Sanctions (Posle.Media, November 5th)
Research of human rights abuses:
Saw the scale of destruction, the underground school, and honored the dead children: Participants of the “Crimea Global” International Conference Visited Kharkiv (Zmina, November 16th)
Lviv became the first stop of the international delegation within the framework of the “Crimea.Global” conference (Zmina, November 15th)
International solidarity:
Why EU multi-entry visas matter to Russian journalists and dissidents (Meduza, 14 November)
Victory for the Stop Seapeak Coalition (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland, November 13th)
Speaking out against Putin from the dock (Labour Hub, November 13th)
As UK Takes Steps to Starve Kremlin of LNG Revenues, Ukrainian Campaigners Urge Swift Cancelation of TotalEnergies Contract (Razom, November 12th)
Upcoming events
Thursday 20 November, 7.0pm: 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.
Wednesday 26 November, 6.0pm UK time: What should trade unions do for Ukraine? International public meeting Register here.
Saturday 6 December: Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Annual General Meeting
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