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In this week’s bulletin: Ukraine & Venezuela/ Russia’s Idée Fixe/ Abramovich & Tories/ Soldiers slaughtered civilians & POWs/ Medical torture of POWs/ Children abducted/ Kazakh crackdown on mercenaries
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Ukrainian POWs and civilians gunned down by Russian invaders near Pokrovsk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 30th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, December 30th)
Russia subjects Ukrainian political prisoner with multiple sclerosis to medical torture for serving her country (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 29th)
Neo-Nazi sadist wanted for war crimes in Ukraine invited to give ‘lesson on courage’ to Russian children (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 29th)
The Face of Resistance: The Story of Crimean Tatar Activist Yanikov Asan (Crimea Platform, December 26th)
Russia sentences tortured Melitopol journalist to 15 years for pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 26th)
Analysis of Toretsk Satellite Images (Tribunal for Putin, December 24th)
Russian invaders abduct 52 civilians, including children, from Sumy oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 24th)
Imprisoned Crimean Solidarity activist Tofik Abdulgaziev needs urgent operation for a malignant brain tumour (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 23rd)
Russia’s supreme court OKs illegal charges & faked ‘evidence’ against Crimean Tatar political prisoners (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 22nd)
News from Ukraine:
Few politicians are interested in Anti-Corruption Court’s effective work, court’s head says (Kyiv Independent, December 15th)
Ukrainian military intelligence says it faked neo-Nazi militia commander’s death (Meduza, 1 January)
Defiance & denial: residents of besieged Sloviansk resist surrender to Moscow (Observer, Dec 28th)
Oil Spill Report in the Black Sea near Odesa Following Russian Attacks on Port Infrastructure (Crimea Platform, December 24th)
War-related news from Russia:
‘Your power is based on lies and violence.’ Three years for sharing Ukrainian songs (People & Nature, 4 January)
Ukrainian drones mysteriously “attack” Putin’s residence: The chronology of yet another Kremlin lie (The Insider, January 1st)
Gordey Nikitin’s story: 17 years for “high treason” (Ivan Astashin, The Russian Reader, 31 December)
Five years for enlisting. Kazakhstan prosecutes hundreds of citizens for fighting in Ukraine (Mediazona, December 30th)
Predatory recruitment is sending Indians to their deaths on the Ukraine front (Scroll.in, Dec 30th)
Russia’s Descent Into Tyranny (Nina Khrushcheva, Foreign Affairs December 30th)
Russian army in 2025: “meat grinder” continues (Mediazona, 30 December)
Banking on repression: How Russia weaponized its “terrorist” list against political dissidents (The Insider, December 28th)
Banking on repression: how Russia weaponised its “terrorist” list against dissidents (Ivan Astashin, The Insider, 28 December)
We need to change our view of the Arctic as a frontier (Valentin Zemlyansky interviewed at Posle.Media, 24 December)
Free Daria Egereva! (Russian Reader, December 24th)
Putin Uses End-of-Year Presser to Send Message to Trump (Carnegie Politika, December 23rd)
What We Learned from a Hacker Attack on the Russian Military Registry Developer (iStories, 22 December)
While others are celebrating, Ukrainian POWs are being tortured in Russian prisons (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 22nd)
Siren songs (Novaya Gazeta, December 17th)
Analysis and comment:
‘What’s wrong with US aggression against Venezuela’ (Sotsialnyi Rukh / European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, 3 January)
Retrieving History: Ukrainian People’s Republic (Vladyslav Starodubtsev, Against the Current, January 2026)
The Russian Idée Fixe (Andriy Movchan, Counterpunch, January 1st)
Money talks: Abramovich, the Tory peer and the Trump adviser (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, December 31st)
Generating pushback: Eastern European countries are turning away political asylum seekers from Russia and Belarus (The Insider, December 24th)
The EU blinks: When capital’s inviolability trumps geopolitical necessity (Labour Hub, December 21st)
A Ukrainian view of Nathan Gill’s prison sentence for taking pro-Russian bribes (Nation Cymru, November 22nd)
Research of human rights abuses:
Michael O’Flaherty published a report on Ukraine (Zmina, December 31st)
A court for Russian propagandists: how to prove their complicity in international crimes? (Ukrainska Pravda, December 24th)
International solidarity:
Street singer Diana Loginova’s first interview in exile: “I thought, what could they do to me?” (Meduza, 2 January)
Annual Report of Solidarity Collectives 2025 (Solidarity Collectives, 31 December)
Green Party conference to hear Ukraine solidarity motion (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 23 December)
Ukraine-Sweden: Upholding Human Rights for Victims of the Russian War (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 23rd)
Upcoming events:
Wednesday 7th January, 5.0 pm. No to Business as Usual with Putin’s Oligarchs: Protest at Tory HQ, 4 Matthew Parker Street, London SWIH 9NP, called by USC.
Thursday 15th January, 7.0 pm. Webinar: Russia’s War on Ukraine, US Security Review – Stopping the authoritarians. Organised by By Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland
Thursday 5th February, 6.30 pm. Try Me For Treason: readings from speeches by anti-war protesters in Russian courts, and discussion. Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck College Clore Management Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7JL.
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