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In this week’s bulletin: Will Russia invade more of Europe?/ Russian school teacher’s view/ Lviv worker resistance/ Trump ultimatum to Ukraine/ Evidence of Russian torture/ Forcible transfer of civilians/ UN slams Russia’s attacks on civilians/ Militarisation of children
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Tortured Ukrainian sportsman, five others get 19-27-year sentences for fake ‘plot’ against Russia-installed Crimean leader (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 9th)
Occupation ‘court’ demands addition of ‘terrorism’ charges in Russia’s persecution of abducted Ukrainian family (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 8th)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, October 8th)
Melitopol man with cerebral palsy sentenced by occupation ‘court’ to 12 years for helping Ukraine in 2022 (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 7th)
A Mariupol teen ends up in the Russian army (Facebook, October 7th)
Russia passes 12-year sentence against Luhansk student abducted two years ago when she was just 18 (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 6th)
Abducted and tortured Crimean Tatar lawyer sentenced to 16 years for ‘treason’ against Russian invaders (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 5th)
64-year-old from occupied Tokmak sentenced to 14 years for donating 25 euros to Ukraine’s armed forces (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 5th)
Progress of the war:
Russia steps up assassination attempts on European defence company executives (ZN.Ua, Oct 11)
At least seven in Russian aerial attack on Sloviansk (Kyiv Independent, 11 October)
Death toll in Zaporizhzhia rises to 23 (Ukrainska Pravda, 11 October)
Trump slams Zelensky for attacking Russian refineries (Kyiv Independent, 10 October)
Ukraine strikes Russian tech giant Yandex for second day (Meduza, 9 October)
One strike took out 20 Russian officers in Donetsk (Meduza, 9 October)
Russians forcibly remove 25 Ukrainians from Kharkiv Oblast – Ukrainian human rights commissioner (Ukrainska Pravda, October 9th)
The GRU’s dud drone: How Russian intelligence botched airport sabotage plot (The Insider, Oct 8th)
Russia hits buses in Kramatorsk: 30 killed – photos (Ukrainska Pravda, October 8th)
Silence, delusions & robots: Ukraine’s eastern advances (Centre for European Policy Analysis, 8 Oct)
The FSB’s sabotage campaign in Europe: Russia’s war on Western arms makers – and what it means for Ukraine (Ukrainska Pravda, October 8th)
Death toll from Russian missile strike on Pryluky rises to 16, including 4 children – photo, video (Ukrainska Pravda, October 7th)
News from Ukraine:
The Invisible Resistance of Lviv’s Industrial Workers (Commons.com, October 9th)
Russia is attacking Ukrainian grain and exporting its own abroad (Babel, October 7th)
Fifty shades of green at the Ukraine recovery conference 2026 (Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group, 5 October)
War-related news from Russia:
Russian losses in the war, updated (Mediazona, 9 October)
Russian asylum seekers join US immigration detention facility hunger strike (Mediazona, 8 October)
Higher prices, simpler menus, and fewer customers: In year five of the war, Russia’s restaurants and bars are finally struggling to survive (The Insider, October 8th)
“We Have Become Rank-and-File Bureaucrats” (Posle.Media, October 7th)
Hunting for cannon fodder: How Russia’s private recruitment market for the war in Ukraine really works (The Insider, October 6th)
Comment and analysis:
US Congress reminds Trump of Graham Act after his deal with Putin (Ukrainska Pravda, 11 October)
‘It felt like a trap’: how Trump Putin pivot blindsided Ukraine (Kyiv Independent, 10 October)
Is Putin going to attack Europe? (iStories, 9 October)
Comment by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on deadly strikes in Ukraine (UN commissioner for Human Rights, October 8th)
The Land of What If: Offline in the Suwałki Gap (Deep Baltic, October 4th)
Will Russia Invade More of Europe? (New Politics, October 4th)
International solidarity:
Emergency winter aid appeal for £25,000 (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 8 October)
The Green party and solidarity with Ukraine: where next? (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 5 October)
Australian Green leader wants to strip Ukraine of ability to defend itself (Radical Civility, 3 October)
From the Labour Conference fringe on Ukraine (Labour Left Internationalists, October 1st)
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