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In this week’s bulletin: Social Movement on four years of resistance Russia’s medical, sexual and other torture; humanitarian disaster in occupied Oleshky/ Russia’s clandestine detention system/ Russian oligarch investigated
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russian medical torture and effective death sentences for civic activism in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 3rd)
Ukrainian sentenced to 20 years for “wanting to blow up railway’ used for Russia’s war against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 3rd)
“Russia is paying a sustained and mounting price — in ships, infrastructure, and resources — to hold a peninsula it can no longer protect” (Crimea Platform, April 3rd)
The Face of Resistance: Crimean Tatar Activist Enver Seitiosmanov (Crimea Platform, April 3rd)
Iryna Danylovich is being driven to death (Crimea Human Rights Group, 2 April)
Crimean gets long sentence for opposing invasion while Russian politicians freely incite to genocide against Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 1st)
Russia causes humanitarian disaster in occupied Oleshky while blocking any escape (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 31st)
Weekly Update On The Situation In Occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, March 31st)
Human rights defenders recorded 26 suspects in journalist Seiran Saliiev’s case (Crimea Human Rights Group, 31 March)
Anna Bazikalo sentenced to 16 years two years after her abduction from Russian occupied Luhansk oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 30th)
Russia sentences former Ukrainian defender to 19 years after torturing out a backdated ‘confession’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, March 30th)
The price of a few cents: the women jailed for tiny payments to Ukraine (The Insider, 25 March)
News from the front:
Five killed and almost 20 injured in Russian strike on market in Nikopol (Ukrainska Pravda, April 4th)
Ukraine halts Russian advances while Russia prepares new offensive (Meduza, 1 April)
Evacuation from the kill zone (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 24 March)
News from Ukraine:
Reclaiming International Women’s Day in Ukraine (Labour Hub, March 30th)
On the Frontline of Resistance and Renewal: Voices From Ukraine’s Mining Cities (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, March 30th)
Humanitarian mission report for March (Solidarity Collectives, 26 March)
War-related news from Russia:
Former Ukrainian security services general killed fighting for Russia (Mediazona, 5 April)
The Russian Translator and Her Ukrainian Boyfriend (Russian Reader, April 2nd)
15 Generals: Russia’s highest ranking casualties (Mediazona, 2 April)
Military privateer charged with scamming recruits (Meduza, 2 April)
How Russians are negotiating the government clampdown on Telegram (Meduza, 2 April)
‘All jokes aside’: why the Russian government cracks down on memes (Posle.Media, 1 April)
Russia: Internet Shutdowns Escalate (Human Rights Watch, March 31st)
Russia confirms death of Polish citizen tortured in Taganrog for alleged opposition to war (Ukrainska Pravda, March 30th)
Why Aren’t the Russians Releasing Ukrainian Civilians? (Ukrainska Pravda, March 30th)
Analysis and comment:
Four years of resistance in Ukraine (Tempest, March 28th)
Russian oligarch investigated: From Irish alumina to Russian rockets (Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, 24 March)
Upcoming events:
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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