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In this week’s bulletin: Open Letter to anti-war conference/ Russian torture/Ukrainian athletes in captivity/ Organized crime in occupied Crimea/ Under Occupation report/ Russia air defences struggling/
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Oleksandr Sizikov, visually impaired prisoner, moved to hospital (Crimea Human Rights Group, 21 June)
Pensioners and mothers targeted for Russia’s ‘treason trial’ terror in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 19th)
Russia digs up the graves of its victims in Luhansk oblast to claim ‘evidence of Ukrainian aggression’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 19th)
Tofik Abdulgaziev Reaches His 45th Birthday Behind Bars (Crimea Platform, June 19th)
During the OSCE Security Committee meeting, Ukraine drew attention to a model of organized crime that Russia has developed and tested in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, June 18th)
The Mission hosted an event dedicated to civilian women in Russian captivity on the occupied territories of Ukraine (Crimea Platform, June 18th)
Melitopol mother of two sentenced to 14 years for donations to help Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 18th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, June 17th)
Russia extracts surreal ‘confession’ a year after abducting 59-year-old Maryna Kovalenko (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 17th)
“Freedom Has Always Been With Me”: Yevhen Zhukov, a Political Prisoner from Crimea, Has Served His Sentence and Been Released (Crimea Platform, June 17th)
Crimean sentenced to 5.5 years for social media comments in support of Ukraine’s Armed Forces (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 15th)
Abducted Melitopol journalist Anastasia Hlukhovska went on hunger strike in notorious Russian prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 12th)
Being present: a discussion on How Not to Lose People under Occupation (Zmina, June 9th)
Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, May 2026)
News from the front:
Fraudsters got rich persuading Brazilians to fight for Russia (The Insider, 17 June)
Robots in arms: Ukraine becomes test range for ground drones (The Insider, 15 June)
News from Ukraine:
ZMINA held a roundtable discussion on prisoners’ access to justice in Ukraine (Zmina, June 12th)
Statement on threats to freedom of speech in the draft new Civil Code of Ukraine (Zmina, June 8th)
War-related news from Russia:
“Loaded them up like convicts”: Russia press-gang in Penza (Mediazona, 19 June)
Why are Moscow’s air defences struggling? And Russia’s oil refineries? (Meduza, 19 June)
FSB detains Putin acquaintance Ilya Traber, St Petersburg criminal mastermind (iStories, 17 June)
Fraudsters got rich persuading Brazilians to fight for Russia (The Insider, 17 June)
Russian military court upholds torture and calls defence of Ukraine ‘terrorism’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 15th)
Analysis and comment:
I can’t recall anything like this happening in the last four years (Facebook, June 21st)
We’re back from a humanitarian mission to Kharkiv (Solidarity Collectives, 21 June)
“The voices of those resisting imperialism are absent”: Open Letter to the international anti-war conference in London (Social Movement, 19 June)
The Russian-speaking left in German politics (Posle.Media, 17 June)
Sasha Razor: Who Burns the Lavra? (Russian Reader, June 16th)
The Podcast (Russian Reader, June 9th)
Disinformation front: how the Kremlin targets the Baltics (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 19 May)
Research of human rights abuses:
At Least 32 Ukrainian Athletes are Held in Russian Captivity or Missing. Global Awareness Needed (Centre for Civil Liberties, June 19th)
ZMINA, together with a coalition of NGOs coordinated by the Agency for Legislative Initiatives, presented an interim Shadow Report to the European Commission (Zmina, June 5th)
A new web resource:
The European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine has launched its new web site, with a bundle of useful links.
Upcoming events:
The Green Party And Nato, Tuesday 23 June, 7.0pm – Green Left Open Meeting (Online), with Paul Ingram, Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge; Gilbert Achcar, Emeritus Professor, SOAS, University of London; Simon Pirani, Honorary Professor, University of Durham; Linda Walker, Green Party of England & Wales.
Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia: on line event, Wednesday 24 June, 6.0-7.30pm, with Vladyslav Zhuravlev and Artem Tidva. Register here.
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