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In this week’s bulletin: More evidence of Russian torture / Russian “Double-Tap” Strikes/ Discontent with Putin / Russian socialists’ solidarity with Ukraine/ Comment: Andriy Melnik/ Ukrainian Children’s Rights Violated/ Russia Persecutes Crimea Media/ Interview: Ukrainian on Sumud Flotilla/ Russia’s unlawful deportations
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Journalist’s Day: How Russia Persecutes Media in Occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, June 6th)
Faces of Resistance: Artem Herasymov, a Political Prisoner from Crimea (Crimea Platform, June 5th)
12-year sentence over abduction and savage torture of slain Euromaidan activist Yury Verbytsky (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 5th)
Five Ukrainians tortured for ‘confessions’ because the FSB couldn’t catch the partisans who killed a Russian-installed traitor (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 4th)
Unholy order: Russia building system of religious control in occupied Ukraine (The Insider, June 3rd)
Violations of Ukrainian Children’s Rights in the Context of War: A Publication by ADC Memorial Brussels and KHPG (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 3rd)
Russia imprisons Crimean political prisoner 2,200 kilometres from her infant daughters (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 3rd)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, June 2nd)
61-year-old Ukrainian tells Russian court how he was forced to listen, while bound to a chair, as his wife was tortured (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 2nd)
New propaganda film on how Russia ‘protects’ the Ukrainian children whose lives it destroyed (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 1st)
Widow of Mariupol defender sentenced by Russian occupation ‘court’ to 14 years for ‘spying’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 1st)
ZMINA took part in a meeting with UNESCO and human rights defenders on growing repression against journalists in occupied Crimea (Zmina, May 28th)
News from the front:
Russian advance stalls, Ukraine holds Kramatorsk (Meduza, 6 June)
An Italian veteran of the Kurdish resistance fell defending Ukraine (Facebook, May 29th)
News from Ukraine:
Cedos Studies Gender Equality and Inclusion in Ukrainian Schools (Cedos, June 4th)
Ukrainian ombudsman reports on the State of Human Rights in 2025 (Zmina, June 4th)
How to build an effective social protection system: Cedos and UNICEF in Ukraine held an expert workshop (Cedos, June 2nd)
Senior Care in Wartime Ukraine: A Fragmented Continuum of Arrangements Inside an “Unpromising Sector” (Social Inclusion, 2026)
War-related news from Russia:
Gini and his master: How Russia manipulates statistics to conceal inequality (The Insider, June 5th)
‘We won’t give up’: OVD-info responds to “foreign agent” status (Meduza, 5 June)
Economic forum underway, drone strikes on St Petersburg (Meduza, 4 June)
“You are not Russian any more”: daughter of Putin lieutenant convicted for supporting Ukraine (Mediazona, 4 June)
Fake foreigners, fugitive criminals, and Holocaust deniers: Who ended up in Moscow’s “international tribunal on crimes of Ukrainian Nazis” (The Insider, June 4th)
Three causes of Russia’s demographic crisis (Posle Media, 3 June)
War, economic crisis, and discontent in Putin’s Russia (Tempest, June 1st)
Inside Russia’s system of torture – YouTube Documentary (Kyiv Independent, 2026)
Analysis and comment:
High time to think differently about Ukrainian nationalist leader Andriy Melnik (John-Paul Himka / Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 3 June)
Russian socialists: “Solidarity means accepting Ukrainians’ pain and suffering as our own” (People and Nature, June 3rd)
Interview with Andriy Movchan, who sailed to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla (Transnational Institute of Social Ecology, May 27th)
Combatants, Mercenaries or Human Trafficking Victims? (Intn’l Fed’n for Human Rights, April)
Research of human rights abuses:
The Russians’ “Double-Tap” Strike Tactics (Tribunal for Putin, June 5th)
KHPG, Memorial & OVD.info added to ‘List of terrorists & extremists’ for reporting on repression in Russia and occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 5th)
Russia Unlawfully Deported Ukrainian Prisoners to Its Territory (Dignity, May 2026)
International solidarity:
Help Ukraine’s children learn in safety: aid appeal (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 3 June)
Fundraising for combat medics (Solidarity Collectives)
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Free to watch and download on Youtube. Russian anti-war protesters’ speeches in court. More information at trymefortreason.org
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