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In this week’s bulletin: Bombing appeal to trade unions/ Peace talks farce/ Ukrainian PoWs tortured to death / further evidence of Russian torture and other crimes/ Ukrainian support for Palestine
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Rescuing the living, searching for the dead (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
Russia’s terror by family: father and son get huge sentences on fabricated ‘Ukrainian saboteur’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 6th)
“Programs about Christ followed by beatings half to death”: Kherson’s ex-mayor Volodymyr Mykolaienko on his years in Russian captivity (The Insider, February 6th)
Materials on Russian Crimes in Crimea Presented in Washington (Crimea Platform, February 6th)
The Face of Resistance: The Story of Serhii Ofitserov (Crimea Platform, February 6th)
‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 5th)
Russia ‘arrests’ Crimean mother of two 15 months after abducting and hiding her (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 4th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, February 3rd)
Young Crimean deported from Kazakhstan to face huge sentence in Russia for donating money to Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 3rd)
Russia sentences son of prominent Zaporizhzhia farmer to 15 years, after abducting father & son (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 2nd)
Abducted, tortured and sentenced to 17 years for opposing Russia’s invasion and for his love of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 2nd)
The Woman Who Didn’t Break. Part Four (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 1st)
News from Ukraine:
Eternal memory to the miners murdered by Russia (Facebook, February 4th)
Bombed cities, freezing homes — a call to trade unions to stand with Ukraine (Youth Council of the Federation lf Trade Unions of Ukraine, February 2nd)
In war-torn Ukraine, showing sympathy for Palestine is no longer a taboo (Al Jazeera, February 2nd)
Apashe & Alina Pash – Kyiv (YouTube, January 20th)
War-related news from Russia:
Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured to death in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 8th)
In Search of Russia’s Lost Opposition (Jacobin, February 6th)
Rubber-stamping rejections. Germany turns away Russian army deserters (Mediazona, 5 February)
Russian plan to impose a single, state-backed digital messenger (Posle.Media, 4 February)
The surreal trial of Artemy Ostanin. Six years for a joke (Mediazona, 4 February)
The Antichrist Today: Russian Conservative and Techno-Enlightenment Versions (Ilya Budraitskis, Eflux, February 4th)
Russian Deserters and Kenyan Job Seekers (Russian Reader, February 3rd)
Military Ecology and Russia’s War Machine (Posle.Media, January 28th)
Analysis and comment:
Farcical peace talks in Abu Dhabi resolve nothing as Ukraine shivers under Russia’s winter onslaught (The Conversation, February 5th)
End of Russian gas imports to the EU: closer than ever (OSW, January 16th)
International solidarity:
Unison activists: we shared the reality of today’s Ukraine (Facebook, February 6th)
Solidarity motion with Ukraine by independent PCS left (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 4 February)
From 20 February to 6 March, we call on friends, comrades, and anti-authoritarian groups worldwide to take part in 2 weeks of Action (Solidarity Collectives, February 3rd)
Upcoming events:
Saturday 21 February, 2.0pm, Piccadilly Circus, London. Demonstration: “Russian troops out. Stand with Ukraine!” on 4th anniversary of full-scale Russian invasion
Wednesday 4 March, 6–8pm, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Public Meeting. Wilson Room, Portcullis House, Parliament, 1 Victoria Embankment, London SW1A 2JR. Chair: John McDonnell MP. Speakers include: Mick Antoniw MS / Yuliya Yurchenko, Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine / Yuliia Bond, Ukrainian Association of Wales / Tanya Vyhovsky, Vermont State Senator / Mariia Pastukh, Vsesvit – Ukraine Solidarity Collective / Johanna Baxter MP / Clive Lewis MP / Stephen Russell, TUC International / Mick Whelan, former ASLEF General Secretary
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