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In this week’s bulletin: 100,000+ Russian war crimes/ Russian indoctrination of children/ torture of Ukrainian journalists/ Putin’s ties to Israel/ Elite Ukrainian regiment torture allegations/ Ukraine Recovery Conference/ Russia fuel crisis/
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russia passes revenge life sentences against a Hero of Ukraine and three other marine commanders for defending Mariupol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
Russians sentence terrorized 20-year-old Mariupol woman to 13 years on ‘treason’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 10th)
Civilians Trapped in Occupied Khersonska Region (Human Rights Watch, July 9th)
52-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Ibragim Kudzhanov dies in Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 9th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, July 8th)
Crimeans given long sentences for ‘calls to terrorism’ – comments on social media in support of Ukraine against Russian aggressor (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 8th)
Russia ignores urgent medical condition and increases monstrous sentence against 68-year-old Halyna Bekhter for supporting Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 7th)
Ukrainian journalists unlawfully imprisoned by Russia (Zmina, July 6th)
‘I will never betray my faith’: Artem Gerasimov, a political prisoner from Crimea, has served his sentence and been released (Crimea Platform, July 6th)
Russia to indoctrinate children in occupied Ukraine with invented ‘history of Donbas & Novorossiya textbook’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 6th)
Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witness faces 6-year sentence on charge of ‘financing extremist activities’ for shared worship (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 6th)
Report: Life Under Occupation (Alternative Human Rights Centre, June 2026)
News from Ukraine:
Commander of scandal hit Ukraine brigade wanted for murder (Kyiv Independent, July 12th)
‘Educational conversations’: rioters and recruiters in Lviv (Meduza, 10 July)
For second time in 4 days, Russia targets Kyiv with mass missile attack, killing at least 26 (Kyiv Independent, July 6th)
Russian missile hits residential building in Kyiv: 9 killed, 46 injured (Ukrainska Pravda, July 6th)
The “Skelya” assault regiment has combat merits. And, according to eyewitnesses, they torture and beat people to death there (Babel, June 23rd)
A soldiers’ union is formed in Ukraine (International Viewpoint, June 14th)
War-related news from Russia:
More than 230,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine (Kyiv Independent July 12th)
Russia restricts foreign SIM cards, blocking censorship circumvention (Ukrainska Pravda, July 12)
Investigation: how severe is Russia’s gasoline crisis? (Meduza, 10 July)
Russian anti-war activist deported from Turkey and detained (Meduza, 10 July)
Crimean artist and political prisoner Bohdan Ziza transferred to a penal colony in Ulan-Ude (Crimea Platform, July 9th)
Drone deference: firms fined for failing to protect employees from attack (Mediazona, 9 July)
Pump fiction: queues and empty tanks in Russian petrol stations (Mediazona, 8 July)
“Russian Houses”: Russia’s Instruments of Influence on Youth Abroad (Crimea Platform, July 8th)
Urban scholars write: Participatory governance, à la Russe (Posle.Media, 8 July)
Putin’s ties to Israel: Best Frenemies Ever (Radical Dumpling, July 8th)
Comment and analysis:
Who Is Ukraine’s Recovery Really For? (Jacobin, July 11th)
Podcast: the Russia-Ukraine war and the Left (Victor’s Children / Soundcloud, July 8th)
Who Pays for Ukraine? Debt, Conditionality, and the Limits of European Solidarity (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontieres, July 8th)
Soviet Romanticism (161 Crew, January 19th)
Research of human rights abuses:
More than 100,000 documented incidents of international crimes: how civil society organisations are bringing justice closer (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 7th)
Ukrainian journalists unlawfully imprisoned by Russia (Zmina, July 6th)
Torture, isolation and fabricated cases: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry urged the release of Ukrainian journalists unlawfully imprisoned by Russia (Zmina, July 3rd)
Calling Russians to account, caring for victims, establishing truth, and providing guarantees: four pillars of transitional justice. Interview with Maksym Yeligulashvili (Babel, June 24th)
Also not to be missed:
64-page zine about cultures of remembrance (Solidarity Collectives, 10 July)
France denies asylum to journalist who exposed Russian operations in Africa (iStories, 9 July)
The communist menace (The Russian Reader, 6 July)
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