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In this week’s bulletin: Kyiv defies power grid bombing/ Ukraine’s poisoned breadbasket/ Russia’s military ecology/ Russia imprisons “terrorist” Lyuba, 19/ Torture cases/ Russia attacks healthcare and civilian targets
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Deaths and medical torture through Russia’s plunder and closure of hospitals in occupied Kherson oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 30th)
The Face of Resistance: Crimean Tatar Activist Alim Karimov (Crimea Platform, January 30th)
PACE Adopts a New Resolution Addressing Russia’s Crimes in the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine (Crimea Platform, January 29th)
Increasingly absurd charges used for Russia’s monstrous sentences against Ukrainians on occupied territory (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 29th)
The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Three (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 28th)
Petra Bayr, Mentor to Political Prisoner Iryna Danylovych, Elected President of PACE (Crimea Platform, January 27th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, January 27th)
Russia fabricates charges to imprison Crimean Tatar activists and as weapon for deportation from their homeland (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 26th)
News from Ukraine:
“Everyone in shock”: residents without power, heating and water after bombing (Kyiv Independent, 31 January)
Who set the trap for Ukraine’s “Iron Lady”? (Meduza, 30 January)
Cedos works to strengthen institutional capacity to support Ukraine’s recovery (Cedos, January 30th)
Heated bricks, shared generators, and candles: How Kyiv survives without power and heat (The Insider, January 28th)
Russia guns down more civilians, attacks passenger train while TV propagandists gloat that Ukrainians are freezing (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 28th)
Volunteering in Wartime Ukraine: Interview with Daria Saburova (Posle.Media, January 21st)
War-related news from Russia:
Cruel and Unusual (Russian Reader, January 31st)
Count updated: Russia’s losses in Ukraine (Mediazona, 30 January)
Monarchist media oligarch Konstantin Malofeev takes up teaching (Meduza, 30 January)
Savagely tortured ‘Kherson Nine’ sentenced to 155 years in grotesque Russian show trial (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 30th)
Russia’s oil and gas revenues are shrinking (Meduza, 28 January)
Dissidents by chance: The Kremlin has turned to labeling random people in Russia as traitors and terrorists (The Insider, January 27th)
Workers from Bangladesh sought jobs in Russia but instead got sent to combat in Ukraine (AP, January 27th)
Is 19-Year-Old Lyuba Lizunova a Terrorist? (Russian Reader, January 26th)
Memorial plaque to Anna Politkovskaya torn down for fifth time in a week (Meduza, 26 January)
Third staged ‘trial’ and 28-year sentence against Ukrainian prisoner of war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 26th)
Russia deploys new high-speed drones that may contain western parts (The Guardian, January 23rd)
Analysis and comment:
The Poisoned Breadbasket: Pesticides, Politics, and the Price of Agricultural Success (Commons.com, January 30th)
Ukraine: “Territorial integrity is a fundamental principle that safeguards the sovereignty of states.” — UN Secretary-General (Crimea Platform, January 30th)
Natalia Tikhonova and Zoe Komaroff: Military ecology and Russia’s war machine (Posle.Media, 28 January)
Why Minneapolis reminds me of what I once saw in Ukraine (Kyiv Independent, January 25th)
International solidarity:
From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign on twitter, 31 January)
Solidarity from Gaza to Ukraine, Myanmar, Sudan, Minneapolis, and Leeds (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 28 January)
Demand Russia obeys its own laws and releases blind Ukrainian political prisoner Oleksandr Sizikov! (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 27th)
A Fundraiser for Yuri Dmitriev’s 70th Birthday (Russian Reader, January 26th)
Fundraiser for FPV Chuyka drone detectors (Solidarity Collectives, 24 January)
Upcoming events:
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. REGISTER to attend here.
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