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In this week’s bulletin: Appeal to international trade unions/ New evidence of Russian torture, & more here and here/ Parallels between Bosnia and Ukraine/ Volyn killings: a conversation/ Wildberries comment
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Abducted Melitopol woman tells Russian court how she was tortured with electric currents and mystery injections (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 4th)
Young lives as collateral damage for Russia’s brazen revenge against Crimean Tatar leader (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 4th)
Russia increasingly obstructing return of children from occupied territories (Kyiv Independent, September 4)
Russia’s FSB claim to have ‘arrested’ seriously ill Crimean woman and her brother 18 months after abducting their entire family (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 3rd)
Young Crimean Jehovah’s Witness seized at Russian airport, faces long sentence for practising his faith (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 2nd)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, September 2nd)
ATR Turns 20: Two Decades of Crimean Tatar TV Broadcasting (Crimea Platform, September 1st)
Abducted and tortured Crimean woman sentenced to 15 years for donations to Ukraine’s Army (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 31st)
Russians seize and torture Pavlo Kyshynets for videoed ‘confession’ almost a year before reporting his ‘arrest’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, August 31st)
Progress of the war:
2 killed, 20 injured, in Russian attack on Kherson oblast (Ukrainska Pravda, September 6)
Ukraine nuclear company warns of critical situation at Zaporizhzhia plant (Ukrainska Pravda, September 6)
‘Drones and candy’. How ‘Madyar’s birds’ hunt Russian troops (Eastern Frontier Initiative, 5 September)
Putin announced fantasy battlefield encirclements, but Russian offensive accelerating elsewhere (Meduza, 5 September)
Scott Bessent met with Russian finance minister, then warned of ‘energy shock’ caused by Ukrainian strikes (Meduza, 4 September)
Shopping Malls, Markets, Warehouses: How Russian Strikes Are Destroying Ukraine’s Retail Infrastructure (Tribunal for Putin, September 1st)
News from Ukraine:
Ukraine Prosecutor denies part in call centre protection racket (Kyiv Independent, September 6)
Wild Victims of War: the Great Crested Grebe (Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group, 5 September)
Kyiv shoot out between Ukraine’s security services (Kyiv Independent, September 2)
War-related news from Russia:
Ukraine’s forces hit Ryazan refinery (Ukrainska Pravda, September 6)
Russia: more members of pro-peace Yabloko party arrested (Kyiv Independent, September 6)
Lida Moniava: A Heroine of Our Time (The Russian Reader, September 4th)
Wildberries: the jungle of Russian capitalism, by Oleg Shein (Posle.media, 4 September)
“There is no such thing as a ‘sense of humor’ in the Criminal Code”: Russian stand-up comedians on surviving war and censorship (The Insider, September 4th)
Evacuating Civilians from the ‘Kill Zone’ Under Threat from Drones in Eastern Ukraine (Bylines Times, September 3rd)
Russian commander shot days after being linked to bombing of Kyiv children’s hospital (Kyiv Independent, September 3)
In Russia, Pacifism Is as Bad as Supporting the Enemy (Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, September 1st)
Bashmakovo Bands Together to Battle Press Gangs (The Russian Reader, August 31st)
Comment and analysis:
Some thoughts on the death of Ratko Mladić, and current echoes (Labour Hub, September 5th)
‘The path to reconciliation is only possible after condemning the perpetrators’: a conversation between friends on the 1943-45 mass killings in Volyn (Commons.com.ua, 1 September)
International solidarity:
Russian attacks on workers: an appeal to the international trade union community (Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, 3 September)
Open letter: Free the Zaporizhzhia 15, solidarity with Ukraine’s workers (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 31 August)
Also not to be missed:
Global food prices highest since 2022, amidst Black Sea strikes (Kyiv Independent, September 5)
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