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In this week’s bulletin: Protest against dismissal of Ukraine Defence Minister/ Social Movement response/ Occupied territories resistance/ Russian torture of prisoners, also here and here/ Russia abducts & militarises Ukrainian children/ Russia’s Crimes Against Journalists/ Russia attacks Aid Warehouses
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russian attacks kill 11, tourist port targeted (Kyiv Independent, July 17)
Ervin Ibragimov 41st Birthday and 10 Years Missing (Crimea Platform, July 17th)
Tortured Ukrainian lawyer held incommunicado since July 2022 for writing the truth about Russian occupation of Melitopol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 17th)
12-year sentence for Ukrainian patriotism against 63-year-old pensioner in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 17th)
Ukraine: Russian-Run Schools Violate Children’s Rights (Human Rights Watch, July 16th)
Russian invaders sentence Ukrainians to 6 and 16 years for defending their own country many years ago (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 16th)
Cancer-stricken Crimean political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev has been transferred from a separate cell to a medical ward (Crimea Platform, July 15th)
Main news of the week (Crimea Platform, July 15th)
Ukrainian political prisoner tortured to fabricate new charges rather than free him after 8 years of Russian captivity (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 15th)
Survivors of conflict related sexual violence in occupied Ukraine (Ukrainska Pravda, July 14)
55-year-old Ukrainian from occupied Crimea sentenced to 17 years on FSB-fabricated ‘attempted treason’ charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 14th)
Russia’s abduction of ten Ukrainian children from occupied Crimea (Zmina, July 13th)
Russia ignores gangrenous wound to stage second ‘trial’ against Ukrainian POW for defending Mariupol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 13th)
Freedom is in our DNA: the Ukrainian Resistance Movement (Alter Pravo, July 2026)
News from Ukraine:
“We have a president, not a tsar”: how people with cardboard signs came out to defend Fedorov (Ukrainska Pravda, July 19th)
‘An anti-social crime’: Kyiv residents demand rollback of 275% fare increase (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, July 18th)
Apartments for the price of a smartphone: corruption at the Ukrainian SBI (ZN.UA, July 17)
Protest organisers call for Commander-in-Chief’s dismissal (Ukrainska Pravda, July 17)
Protests are breaking out all over Ukraine today (Bluesky, July 16th)
Thousands of Ukrainians have taken to the streets (Bluesky, July 16th)
Ukrainian union leader jailed for doing his job (Industriall, July 16th)
Ukraine has opened up arms exports – but not for all manufacturers, markets or products. What’s wrong with the new mechanism? (Ukrainska Pravda, July 14th)
Progress of the war:
Russia unleashes one of largest ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv (Kyiv Independent, July 19)
Russia hits amusement park in Odesa Oblast: several killed (Ukrainska Pravda, July 18th)
Russia attacks cars and pedestrians in Kherson (Ukrainska Pravda, July 18)
Russia boosts ‘shadow fleet’ defences at expense of front line units (Kyiv Independent, July 18)
Two Russian oil depots and logistics centre hit by drones (Kyiv Independent, July 18)
Humanitarian Aid Warehouses Under Attack (Tribunal for Putin, July 16th)
War-related news from Russia:
Botswana citizens forced to fight for Russia (ZN.UA, July 18)
Pro-war camp turns its anger on Putin (Kyiv Independent, July 18)
Crimean political prisoner Bohdan Ziza transferred to Buryatia (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 17th)
Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure threaten federal budget (The Insider, July 17th)
Skip the exam and grab a rifle: Russia makes higher education less accessible (The Insider, July 17th)
Bedridden “Azov man” in Russia was convicted of “terrorism” (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 16th)
Crewing the shadows: The Insider exposes the firms staffing Russia’s sanctions-busting fleet of oil tankers and explains why they matter (The Insider, July 15th)
Capital gains: Moscow has fuel as shortages climb elsewhere (Mediazona, 15 July)
Federal security service: AI tried and stopped, for now (iStories, 15 July)
Russian army recruitment: summonses are sent out by AI, illegally, to women (Mediazona, 14 July)
No contact with political prisoner Andrei Trofimov since April (Memorial, July 14th)
Mr Putin, where is the gas? (Kyiv Independent July 14)
Comment and analysis:
Vitaliy Dudin (Social Movement): ‘The dismissal of Fedorov is not the main issue. The future of Ukraine is’ (European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, July 18th)
Weaponising negotiations against Ukraine (Kyiv Independent, July 17)
“Trying to change Russia from within gets you nowhere”: Former TV Rain journalist Pyotr Ruzavin on serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (The Insider, July 15th)
Review: Anarchists on the War in Ukraine (Freedom, July 16th)
Research of human rights abuses:
Russia’s Crimes Against Journalists and Media (Tribunal for Putin, July 17th)
“He was burning in the hallway, and they laughed”: Inside Russia’s systematic torture apparatus for Ukrainian POWs (The Insider, July 17th)
RSF finds evidence that two Ukrainian journalists held incommunicado by Russia may be alive — and in the hell of Kizel prison (Reporters Sans Frontieres, July 2026)
International solidarity:
Report for April and May (Solidarity Collectives, 15 May)
The Illicit Crypto Corridor: Russia, Hong Kong, London (Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, July 14th)
Also not to be missed:
Transnistria: how the Ukraine war is heating up Russia’s longest forgotten separatist conflict (New Eastern Europe, July 10th)
Upcoming events:
Thursday, July 23, 2026, 18:00 UK and Ireland / 19:00 Central European Time / 20:00 Ukraine, on zoom: Eyewitness report from Kramatorsk: Resisting and surviving Russia’s assault in the Donbas. On-line public meeting with Ukrainian writer Victoria Belim. Register here
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