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In this week’s bulletin: Ukraine union leader interviewed/ Dnipro miners/ UN defines Russian crimes against humanity/ Militarism and defence of Ukraine/ Sanctions-busters identified/ Russian journalists & propagandists/ Civilians tortured to death/
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
29 civilians abducted from Kherson oblast were tortured to death or died from lack of treatment in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 13th)
Russia sentences Crimean to 15 years for sharing information available on Google Maps (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 13th)
The Face of Resistance: Crimean Tatar Activist Eskender Suleimanov (Crimea Platform, March 13th)
I repeated it like a prayer: ‘Donbas is Ukraine! ’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 12th)
Russia’s deportation and enforced disappearances of Ukrainian children are crimes against humanity – UN Commission (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 12th).
Ukrainian political prisoner faces new ‘trial’ and life sentence for opposing Russia’s occupation of Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 11th)
Weekly Update On The Situation In Occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, March 10th)
Occupiers are blackmailing the families of prisoners of war by demanding they register Starlink terminals in their names (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 10th)
10-year sentence for love of Ukraine against 71-year-old pensioner under Russian occupation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 10th)
Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake ‘clean bill of health’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 9th)
Russia sentences 69-year-old Ukrainian pensioner to 11 years for sending money to Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 9th)
Ukrainian PoW fined for “discrediting” Russian army during 18-year sentence (Mediazona, 3 March)
News from Ukraine:
Train as a Witness (Tribunal for Putin, March 13th)
Russian Forces Attack Trade Union Office and Bus Carrying Miners in Dnipropetrovsk Region (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, March 11th)
3,000 women march in wartime Kyiv demanding rights the state is rewriting (Euromaidan, March 9th)
“Change is inevitable” and Free Iryna Danylovych: the ZMINA team joined the Women’s March to become the voice of women prisoners held by the Kremlin (Zmina, March 8th)
‘We work to gather coal’: Ukraine’s mines are war’s second frontline (Sianushka writes, March 7th)
Dispatch from Ukraine (Krytyka, March 2026)
‘The part of our work – and truly of my life – which is connected with war is never ending’ (Unison magazine, February 26th)
Saving Putin from justice. Who in Europe is stalling the trial and who is helping Ukraine (European Pravda, February 26th)
War-related news from Russia:
The War on Poverty (Russian Reader, March 14th)
“Join the elite drone forces, and you’ll come home famous!”: Russian universities are luring students into paid military service (The Insider, March 13th)
Lost in translation: How Russia’s new elite hit squad was compromised by an idiotic lapse in tradecraft (The Insider, March 13th)
Polina Yevtushenko: 14 years behind bars for nothing (The Russian Reader, 12 March)
The Insider identifies 6,000 exporters trading with sanctioned Russian firms or defense industry suppliers, 4,000 of them based in China (The Insider, March 11th)
Pro-war bloggers welcome arrest of Sergey Shoigu’s top deputy as Russia’s Defense Ministry purge continues (Meduza, March 9th)
A phantom refinery: How Georgia helps Putin bypass oil sanctions (The Insider, March 9th)
Our Dear Friends in Moscow: from journalists to propagandists (Posle.Media, 4 March)
Analysis and comment:
Sultana Is Right About Zelensky. Now What? (Red Mole, March 13th)
Trump’s US temporarily lifts sanctions on Russian oil (Meduza, 13 March)
European socialism, imperial militarism and defence of Ukraine (People and Nature, March 12th)
Russia’s war: stop trying to delegitimise resistance (People and Nature, March 12th)
The US-Russia-Ukraine negotiations: Architecture of tactical theatre and strategic deception (New Eastern Europe, March 9th)
Interview with Andriy Movchan: “If the Occupation of Ukraine Is an Acceptable Price, What Else Is Acceptable? (Europe Solidaire, March 8th)
Presentation of the Research “Words that Kill: How Russian Propaganda Shapes Mobilization and Combat Motivation” (Lingva Lexa, February 27th)
Putin’s Four Antifascist Myths (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, May 2025)
Research of human rights abuses:
UN concludes that forcible transfer of children and enforced disappearances are crimes against humanity (UN Commissioner for Human Rights, 12 March)
International Criminal Justice: Beautiful Myth or Imperfect Reality? (Tribunal for Putin, March 10th)
International solidarity:
“That’s How We Founded the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign”: An Interview with Chris Ford (Commons.com, March 12th)
Art Exhibition on Crimea Opens in Warsaw (Crimea Platform, March 11th)
Upcoming events:
Saturday 28 March: Together March in London – Eastern European bloc against the far right, meeting 12.0 midday at Deanery Street, off Park Lane.
Wednesday 15 April, 6.0-7:30 pm. Try Me for Treason: Voices Against Putin’s War – Part of the Think Human Festival 2026 Actors will perform extracts from speeches made from the dock by Russian oppositionists who have been tried for sabotage for actions taken against the Russo-Ukrainian war Clerici Building, Clerici Learning Studio, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford.
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