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In this week’s bulletin: Ukraine trade union statement on bombing/ Ukrainian participant on Global Sumud Flotilla/ Ukraine-Poland tension/ Russian torture & other war crimes/ Crimea abductions & secret detention/ Russia fuel crisis/
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Crimean Olha Tsyryk gets16-year sentence after blitzkrieg ‘trial’ for selfies and anti-Russian comments (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 3rd)
Crimean Tatar political prisoner returned to die in Russian captivity is in critical condition (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 3rd)
Occupied Crimea braces for a summer without fuel (The Insider, 3 July)
Faces of Resistance: The Story of Political Prisoner Iryna Horobtsova (Crimea Platform, July 3rd)
Crimea Platform Fifth International Forum in Kyiv (Crimea Platform, 2 July)
“I looked at the gas shortages and closed my cafe before I went broke”: Russian-occupied Crimea is bracing for a summer without fuel (The Insider, July 1st)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, July 1st)
UN Committee against Racial Discrimination slams Russia’s persecution of three Crimean Tatar lawyers (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 1st)
Abducted 63-year-old Crimean sentenced to 19 years for support of Ukraine which Russia called ‘treason’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 30th)
Russia labels Crimean Solidarity, lawyers & journalists ‘foreign agents’ in new attempt to crush Crimean Tatar human rights movement (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, June 29th)
Russian attacks continue to claim civilians’ lives (Confed’n of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 2 July)
News from Ukraine:
Ukrainian parliament approves creating pantheon to commemorate national heroes (Kyiv Independent, July 1st)
Massive missile and drone attack on Kyiv kills 31 (Kyiv Independent, July 1st)
Progress of the war:
Ukrainian forces strike Russian logistics and military infrastructure (ZN.UA, July 5th)
Ukraine nearly doubles number of successful strikes (Kyiv Independent, July 5th)
Ukrainian strike against St Petersburg oil infrastructure (Kyiv Independent July 4th)
Russia can no longer conduct a naval blockade of Ukraine (ZN.UA, July 5th)
Courts vs. ships: Ukraine trying to stop illegal wheat exports from Russian-occupied territories (The Insider, July 2nd)
War-related news from Russia:
Russia’s mass missile attacks on Ukraine ‘must continue’ says Putin (Kyiv Independent July 4th)
39 hours in line: one driver’s road trip through Russia’s fuel crisis (Meduza, 3 July)
Russia rewrites its history books again, to flag up Trump’s “positive role” (Meduza, 3 July)
230,624 deaths: Russian losses count updated (Mediazona, 3 July)
Russia stages grotesque trial for second 29-year sentence against savagely tortured Ukrainian partisan (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 2nd)
Ukraine war sparks fears of an organised crime resurgence in Russia (The Conversation, July 2nd)
Farewell to windfall: Сompanies in most Russian industries are getting poorer (The Insider, July 1st)
Investment falling: long-term structural crisis in Russian economy (The Insider, 30 June)
Comment and analysis:
Fourteen Thousand: The number everyone cites and almost no one checks, about the war between 2014 and 2022 (Red Mole, June 30th)
Memory war causes Ukraine-Poland tension (RAAM, 30 June)
Anti‑war coalition ignores Putin’s war on Ukraine (Anti-Capitalist Resistance, June 28th)
For an Anti-Imperialist Leftist movement. An interview with Andriy Movchan (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa, June 24th)
Research of human rights abuses:
Netherlands approves hosting of Special Tribunal on Russia’s aggression (Ukrainska Pravda, July 5th)
Damage from Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure has exceeded $45 billion (Tribunal for Putin, July 2nd)
Torture, civilian detainees and Russia’s accountability: ZMINA joined the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna (Zmina, July 1st)
Abduction in Crimea after the full-scale invasion (Ukrainska Pravda, June 30th)
Prosecutor General’s Office has registered nearly 69, 000 Russian war crimes over the past year (Tribunal for Putin, June 29th)
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