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In this week’s bulletin: Davyd Chychkan remembered/ In Bakhmut town/ Housing in Ukraine/ Children abducted by Russia/ How Russia took over Ukrainian schools/ Occupation summary
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russia brings cynical new criminal charges against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant brain tumour (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 20th)
Terror unrelenting as Russian courts uphold 15-year sentences for ‘treason’ against an invader (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 20th)
55-year-old from Russian-occupied Skadovsk sentenced to 12 years for supporting Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 17th)
The Face of Resistance: The Story of Ukrainian Sailor Volodymyr Dudka (Crimea Platform April 17th)
Occupation via education: how Russia took over Ukrainian schools (New Eastern Europe, April 16)
Berdiansk pastor and volunteer sentenced by the Russians to 22 years for fictitious ‘act of sabotage’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 15th)
Russian occupation ‘court’ passes massive sentences in bulk for donations to Ukraine’s defenders (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 14th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, April 14th)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, March 2026)
News from the front:
Meat grinders with VPNs: how Russia’s telegram blockade is hampering army (The Insider, 16 April)
Ukraine’s middle strike: hitting targets 300km behind Russian front lines (The Insider, 15 April)
The US citizen who went to Russian and Ukrainian army recruitment offices (iStories, 13 April)
Russians kill their own wounded captured soldiers during “ceasefire” in Donetsk Oblast – video (Ukrainska Pravda, April 12th)
News from Ukraine:
Research findings: rental housing in Ukraine (Cedos, 17 April)
In memoriam Davyd Chychkan (Solidarity Collectives, 15 April)
From brutal occupation to brazen recruitment: Russia turns Bucha residents against their own (The Guardian, April 12th)
War-related news from Russia:
Children abducted from occupied Ukraine ‘offered’ on state adoption site in Russia (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 17th)
Putin rubberstamped indefinite imprisonment without charges for opposing Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, April 16th)
Reforms will leave parts of Russia without the internet (iStories, 14 April)
Artist Andrey Akuzin dies by suicide in pre-trial detention (Mediazona, 14 April)
Is Daria Egereva a terrorist? (The Russian Reader, 6 April)
International solidarity:
Online Meeting Held with the Mother of Crimean Political Prisoner Appaz Kurtamet and the Ukrainian Canadian Students’ Union (Crimea Platform, April 16th)
In Bakhmut town: a tribute to fallen fighters (Soundcloud, 2024)
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