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In this week’s bulletin: Killings of Ukrainian POWs/ Crimea economy collapsing/ Ukraine protests analysed/ Why men of conscription age leave Ukraine/ Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
We investigated Russia’s military indoctrination of Ukrainian children in occupied territories (The Conversation, July 31st)
Monstrous 18-year sentence against 66-year-old Ukrainian from Russian-occupied Sevastopol (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 31st)
Russia uses Ukrainian flag as pretext for new charges against ‘freed’ political prisoner Serhiy Buhaichuk (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 31st)
Face of Resistance: The Story of Political Prisoner Zavur Abdullayev (Crimea Platform, July 31st)
Crimea unplugged: The Russian-occupied peninsula’s businesses are buckling under blackouts, fuel shortages and a failed tourist season (The Insider, July 30th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, July 29th)
Russia’s attack on Crimean Solidarity extends repression to all lawyers defending political prisoners (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 28th)
Ukrainian sentenced to 12 years for ‘endangering Russian security’ through donation to Ukraine’s defenders (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 27th)
News from Ukraine:
Assault regiment commander ordered troops to fire on retreating comrades, media investigation alleges (Kyiv Independent, July 30th)
From Syrski to Drapatyi: Ukraine’s military shake-up (Hromadske, 24 July)
Progress of the war:
De-crudeification: How Ukraine’s strike campaign on Russian oil refineries is changing the war (The Insider, July 30th)
Drone strikes on “Russia’s Amazon”: the story of Wildberries (Ukrainska Pravda, July 29th)
Ukraine and Iran’s dangerous new standoff, explained (Kyiv Independent, July 29th)
War-related news from Russia:
Darya Shipacheva: convicted of treason and sentenced to 12 years in prison (Meduza, 31July)
Russian losses in the war: Mediazona’s count, updated (Mediazona, 31 July)
Russia’s defense giant quietly launches new cryptocurrency despite EU sanctions (Kyiv Independent, July 30th)
Daniil Belousov: A Political Prisoner’s Son, Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison (Russian Reader, July 29th)
Russian music after 2022: between propaganda and protest (Posle.Media, 29 July)
You Could Be in Pictures (Russia’s Elite Universities and the War) (Russian Reader, July 25th)
Comment and analysis:
Draft dodgers and veterans: the chasm on which Ukraine’s victory in the war depends (Ukrainska Pravda, July 28th)
Can Germany prove Ukraine blew up Nord Stream? (Kyiv Independent, July 26th)
Masculinity, Guilt and Citizenship: how men of conscription age make sense of leaving Ukraine (Commons.com.ua, 29 July)
After the protests: power, capital and Ukraine’s defence economy (Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, 24 July)
The war’s deepening impact on civilians (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 21 July)
Research of human rights abuses:
Ripped from their families and shipped to Russia: The tragic story of Ukraine’s children (The Independent, July 31st)
Only Russia wins if there is no international investigation of its Olenivka mass killing of Ukrainian POWs (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 29th)
War crimes probe initiated after Russians interrogate, then execute Ukrainian POW (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, July 27th)
Ukraine’s implementation of the concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture discussed in Kyiv (Zmina, July 24th)
International solidarity:
Ukrainian campaign group welcomes EU’s 21st sanctions package, but calls for loopholes to be closed (Razom We Stand, 23 July)
Strengthening Sanctions on Russian Fossil Fuels (B4Ukraine, July 2026)
Also not to be missed:
Salvadorans fighting and dying in global conflict zones (El Salvador Perspectives, July 26th)
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