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In this week’s bulletin: Freedom of speech and the Ukrainian Civil Code; the budget crisis in Russia; internal migration within Ukraine;  Russian killing of Ukrainian children; Russian execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war; Europe and Russian fossil fuels

News from the territories occupied by Russia: 

Three children orphaned for Russia’s new Crimean `treason trial’ and huge sentence (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 11^th June)

Russia uses Gestapo-like torture for `international terrorism’ trial and massive sentences over death of a Ukrainian traitor (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 10^th June)

Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea on June 9^th, 2026 (Crimea Platform, 9^th June)

News from the front:

Ukraine’s security service reports hit on oil and gas terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai (Ukrainska Pravda, 13^th June)

Ukraine’s defence forces strike oil facility in Russia’s Volgograd oblast (Ukrainska Pravda, 13^th June)

Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated (Mediazona, 5^th June)

News from Ukraine:

Zelenskyy sanctions Russian telecoms operators and internet service providers (Ukrainska Pravda, 13^th June)

Inside Ukraine’s campaign to force Putin to the negotiating table by fall 2026 (Meduza, 12^th June) 

This June marks our fourth anniversary (Solidarity Collectives, 11^th June)

Drink to the death of dictators (Solidarity Collectives, 11^th June)    

A former brick seller, a Navalny supporter, holidays in Crimea: the Rosatom employees who helped occupy the Chornobyl nuclear power plant (Ukrainska Pravda, 9^th June)

Statement on threats to freedom of speech in the draft new Civil Code of Ukraine (Zmina, 8^th June)

War-related news from Russia:

Communist party lawmaker warns Russia is `on the brink of a social explosion’ and demands a `clear plan’ to end the war (Meduza, 12^th June)

Abducted Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska went on hunger strike in notorious Russian prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 12^th June)

“My charge is a prison regime screw-up in itself”. Political prisoners moved to supposedly “lighter” prisons are isolated in cold dark cells for months (Mediazona, 11^th June)

Russia’s central bank chief disappears from public view as resignation rumors swirl: one report links her future to fears of border closures and martial law (Meduza, 11^th June)

Russia just rushed through a law to lift limits on borrowing and spending. Is the budget starting to crack? (Meduza, 11^th June)

Escape from the “Digital GULAG”: Ordinary Russians are finding ways to bypass the Kremlin’s internet restrictions (The Insider, 11^th June)

Criminal kingpin Artur Denisultanov killed in the war in Ukraine. He had been accused of an assassination, kidnapping and murder attempts (Mediazona, 10^th June)

High oil prices and tax hikes aren’t enough to offset war spending and keep Russia’s budget on track (Meduza, 9^th June)

“You are not Russian anymore”. How Alexandra Pugach, the daughter of Vladimir Putin’s trusted representative, was convicted for supporting Ukraine (Mediazona, 5^th June)

Analysis and comment:

Outpacing Albania. How Ukraine should meet most critical benchmarks in EU accession negotiations (European Pravda, 11^th June)

In the end, only crumbs may arrive for military aid sent to Ukraine: not enough money in the European Peace Facility (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 11^th June)

“Invisible migration: Analysing mobile operator data in light of the need to verify the state voter register (Opora, 10^th June)

Updating the state voter register in the context of relocation of citizens: Scale, behaviours and barriers (Quantitative Study) (Opora, 10^th June)

Statement by the Priama Diia trade union at the meeting organised by the International Trade Union Network for Solidarity and Struggles on 8^th June 2026 (Labour Solidarity, 8^th June)

Russia attacks gas production. Will Ukraine have enough gas and money for the winter? (Ukrainska Pravda, 7^th June)

Report: Europe’s break from Russian fossil fuels (Razom We Stand, June 3^rd)

How the UK and Europe play vital roles in Russia’s LNG exports: Sakhalin 2 (Razom We Stand, June 1^st)

Research of human rights abuses:

How Russia is killing Ukrainian children (Tribunal for Putin, 12^th June)

Russians cause abducted Melitopol woman’s death, hold her husband incommunicado for 3 years (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 12^th June)

Law enforcement agencies are investigating 306 instances of the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces (Tribunal for Putin, 11^th June)

11^th EU-Ukraine human rights dialogue held in Brussels (Crimea Platform, 11^th June)

Ukrainian sentenced to 16 years for resisting Russian occupation gets new sentence for `extremist’ tattoo (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 9^th June)

Tortured but unbroken: Four Ukrainians expose Russian fabrication of trial over death of a traitor (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 8^th June)

International Solidarity:

Russian musician’s performance in Budapest is cancelled after Ukrainian efforts’ (Ukrainska Pravda, 13^th June)

All the warning lights were on: Toward Kharkiv, Two thousand kilometers in a dying ambulance (Nomadic Mind (Substack), 4^th June)

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Have you seen TRY ME FOR TREASON yet?

Free to watch and download on Youtube. Russian anti-war protesters’ speeches in court. More information at trymefortreason.org

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