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In this week’s bulletin: Ukrainian Women in captivity: multiple cases; Russia’s execution of POWs; Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children; interview with renowned Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy.
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Brutal Russian reprisals against young student sentenced to 9 years for her pro-Ukrainian position (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 10th)
Russian invaders sentence Tetiana Deviatkina to 6 years for criticizing them on social media (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 10th)
The Face of Resistance: The Story of Crimean Tatar Activist Teymur Abdullayev (Crimea Platform, April 10th)
Russia’s FSB report the ‘arrest’ of a young mother 18 months after they abducted her in occupied Crimea (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 9th)
Russia’s supreme court finds Ukrainian guilty of ‘international terrorism’ for opposing invaders (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 8th)
Maryna Ryff disappears in Russian-occupied Crimea after refusing to hide her pro-Ukrainian position (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 7th)
Weekly Update On The Situation In Occupied Crimea April 7th (Crimea Platform, April 7th)
Young Mariupol woman sentenced to 13 years for donating to Ukraine’s Army after her POW husband died in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 6th)
Russia sentences Crimean Tatar prisoner of war to 20 years for serving in Ukraine’s Armed Forces (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 6th)
News from the front:
Russia has violated ceasefire regime 2,299 times – Ukraine’s General Staff (Ukrainska Pravda, April 12th)
Cut Off from the “Mainland” (Tribunal for Putin, April 8th)
News from Ukraine:
New NGPU union in frontline region with female leader (KVPU, April 8th)
Kramatorsk: An attempt at normalcy and eighteen drones Ukrainer, April 3rd)
Research into human rights abuses:
How Russia Abducts Ukrainian Children and Erases Their Identity (Tribunal for Putin,
April 12th)
Russians execute four Ukrainian POWs in Kharkiv Oblast – DeepState (Ukrainska Pravda, April 12th)
Russians kill wounded Ukrainian troops near Huliaipilske during “Easter truce” – DeepState (Ukrainska Pravda, April 11th)
Ukrainian Women in Captivity: Thoughts about Their Families Help Them to Survive (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 10th)
War-related news from Russia:
Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. Medizona count, updated (Mediazona, April 10th)
Novaya Gazeta raided in Moscow. Investigative journalist Oleg Rodulgin detained and taken for questioning (Mediazona, April 9th)
On the designation of “Memorial” as an extremist organisation. Statement by the Council of the Memorial HRDC (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 9th)
Russian security forces raid Novaya Gazeta office in Moscow (Novaya Gazeta, April 9th)
Searches carried out at the offices of independent trade unions (ovd.info, April 9th)
A Russian children’s dance group won a competition after performing a routine set to Putin’s speech announcing the war against Ukraine (Meduza, April 8th)
Behind the curtain. A comprehensive guide to Russia’s internet censorship in2026 – and what life feels like inside it (Medizona, April 7th)
Russia has shifted to a year-round conscription system. Here’s what that means for the country’s young men (Meduza, April 7th)
Russia Is Redefining Genocide for Political Purposes (Moscow Times, April 6th)
UPD: Search of the Confederation of Labour of Russia (Labour Mission, April 2026)
Analysis and comment:
Putinism – a new form of fascism? (International Viewpoint, April 12th)
Webinar on care in Ukraine (Oksana Dutchak, Facebook, April 10th)
Historian Serhii Plokhy on Russian imperialism, de-colonization, and why Putin is so obsessed with Ukraine (Kyiv Independent, April 8th)
Italy’s campist left against Ukraine’s Solidarity Collectives (Europe Solidaire, April 8th)
“Privatization” as an Instrument of Crimea’s Occupation (Crimea Platform, April 7th)
Can social support programmes encourage people to return from abroad? (Cedos, April 7th)
US citizen went to army recruitment offices in both Moscow and Kyiv (IStories, April 6th)
The Killing Ledger of War (Medium, April 5th)
“All Jokes Aside” (Posle, April 1st)
How Ukraine is rewriting its role (IPS, March 31st)
Russia is crushing labour rights in occupied Ukraine – the ILO must go beyond declarations (Geneva Solutions, November 12th 2025)
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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