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In this week’s bulletin: Trump helping Putin to win/ Europe’s sanctions/ Far-right thugs attack Ukraine socialist/ Russia executed Ukrainian soldiers/ Latest on Oleshky/ The scale of Russia’s unlawful detentions/ Student organising in Ukraine/ Russia election observers’ movement/
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russia’s secret detention system for Ukrainian civilians (Kyiv Independent, 18 October)
Meeting with young people returned from occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, October 17th)
Four Ukrainians sentenced over attacks on Melitopol collaborators (Media Zona, 16 October)
Young Crimean couple sentenced to 25 and 17 years for act of resistance to Russia’s war of aggression (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 16th)
The Faces of Resistance: Political Prisoner Fevziye Osmanova (Crimea Platform, October 16th)
Abducted Kherson oblast teacher forced to ‘repent’ before trial on ‘terrorism’ charges for supporting Ukraine’s defenders (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 15th)
71-year-old Anna Sotsenko, abducted in occupied Crimea with her daughter, has been on hunger strike for 43 days (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 14th)
Weekly situation in temporarily occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, October 14th)
Russia systematically seizes property in occupied territories (Zmina, October 12th)
Russia’s ‘trial’ begins of Crimean Tatar mother of five and three young women for ‘trying to violently seize power’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 12th)
64-year-old Liubov Plakhina sentenced to 17 years for resistance to Russian occupation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 12th)
Monthly news bulletin: Life Under Occupation (Alter Pravo, September)
Progress of the war:
Ukraine drone attack hits St Petersburg oil and data facilities (Kyiv Independent, 18 October)
Russian drones hit western Ukraine (Kyiv Independent, 18 October)
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s energy sector 76 times since Trump announced truce, Zelenskyy says (Ukrainska Pravda, October 18th)
Russians executed Ukrainian soldiers in Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Ukrainska Pravda, October 17th)
Dodging drones on Europe’s highway to hell (Centre for European Policy Analysis, 16 October)
Without food, water, or a way out: Russia responsible for situation in Oleshky (Tribunal for Putin, October 16th)
Russian attacks killed 328 civilian Ukrainians during September: Kyiv, Kherson and Sumy suffered the most – UN (Ukrainska Pravda, October 16th)
Peklo to Palyanytsia: Ukraine’s expanded arsenal is changing the war (The Insider, October 15th)
China’s drone modem pipeline: How mesh technology helps Russian UAVs penetrate deep into Ukraine (The Insider, October 14th)
Data centre bombings: Russia has backed itself into a corner (iStories, 12 October)
News from Ukraine:
Appeal for solidarity: far-right thugs attack Ukrainian socialist (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 18 October). More on this video from Social Movement Ukraine
Ukraine’s plan to tighten military exemptions draws lawmakers’ fire (Kyiv Independent, 16 October)
Kyiv’s Dark Lord: 10 locations, one company and zero completed power plants (Zn.Ua, 16 October)
Russian soldier accused of killing five Ukrainian servicemen and civilian remanded in custody (Ukrainska Pravda, October 16th)
‘People, not generals, win wars’: Independent student organising in Ukraine (Links, October 12th)
War-related news from Russia:
Striking where it hurts: Ukrainian drones are having a tangible effect on the Russian economy (The Insider, October 14th)
Political life brings voter interest – and election observers (Posle.Media, 14 October)
Russian murderer honoured (Facebook, October 13th)
Ukrainian Boxer Imprisoned in Russia Needs Medical Care (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 12th)
Comment and analysis:
Garry Kasparov: Russia wants to intimidate Europe into surrendering Ukraine (The Eastern Frontier Initiative, 18 October)
Is Ukraine in danger of a nuclear accident if sub-stations fail? (Zn.Ua, 17 October)
What if the Ukrainian army is cut off by Starlink entirely? (Meduza, 16 October)
Russia’s bloody shift from subimperialism to new old imperialism (People and Nature, October 15th)
Trump’s diesel deal reveals Putin’s weakness (Kyiv Independent, 14 October)
Kyiv Independent: Trump is helping Putin win the war (The Russian Reader, 14 October)
The Trump–Putin Diesel Deal: A Betrayal Of Ukraine (Labour Hub, October 12th)
Russian Strikes At Civilians: Do Ukraine & Europe Understand What To Do? (Ukraine Solidarity EU, October 12th)
What Lies Behind Russian Strikes on Digital Infrastructure (Tribunal for Putin, October 12th)
Europe is not losing the sanctions fight: It is undermining them itself (International Politics and Society, October 1st)
Research of human rights abuses
Human Dimension Conference told of Russian persecution of civilians (Zmina, October 15th)
An exhibition on Russian occupation of Crimea opened in Germany (Crimea Platform, October 14th)
From supporting political prisoners to reintegrating people from occupied territories: ZMINA at Donbas Media Forum 2026 (Zmina, October 13th)
The scale of Russian terror. A report detailing over 8,200 unlawful detentions of Ukrainian civilians was presented in Strasbourg and Brussels (Tribunal for Putin, October 12th)
“Crimea Global” conference explored Kyiv’s cultural heritage and the aftermath of Russian attacks (Crimea Platform, October 17th)
Life after Amputation: Interview with Sociologist Ioulia Shukan (Documenting Ukraine, October 5th)
International solidarity:
Ukraine solidarity campaigning and convoy: a model trade union motion (Ukraine Solidarity Campaign, 16 October)
ZMINA calls on international partners to help protect journalists and volunteers from drone attacks (Zmina, October 13th)
Upcoming event:
Thursday 5 November, 6.0pm, on zoom: Reclaiming Crimean Tatar subjectivity under occupation, organised by UCU Members for Ukraine & Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. Details here.
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