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In this week’s bulletin: International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine/ Putin: no humanitarian/ Reports on rights/ Evidence of Russian torture and abduction of children/ Billions in untraceable Russian cash
News from the territories occupied by Russia:
Russian court passes 18-year death sentence against 77-year-old Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Ananiev (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 23rd)
Gravely ill political prisoner Lenur Khalilov ordered to die in pain in a Russian prison (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 23rd)
10-year-old girl whose mother died abducted from Kostiantynivka and handed over to “uncle” in Russia (Ukrainska Pravda, October 23rd)
“Building Connections, Fostering Trust and Finding Solutions”: Key Takeaways from the Fourth International Crimea Global Conference (Crimea Platform, October 23rd)
The face of resistance: The story of political prisoner Ekrem Krosh (Crimea Platform, October 23rd)
77-year-old Volodymyr Ananiev gets 18-year “death sentence” (Mediazona, 23 October)
15-19-year sentences in Russia’s savage reprisal for Crimean Solidarity human rights activism (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 22nd)
Russian FSB abduct Ukrainian on ‘spying’ charges when sentence for social media comment proved too short (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 21st)
Crimea Global conference showcased exhibitions on the consequences of Russian aggression, unlawful detention and resistance in Crimea (Crimea Platform, October 21st)
Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, October 21st)
Young Melitopol man sentenced to 14 years for donating 10 euros to Ukraine’s Armed Forces (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 20th)
Four Ukrainians sentenced to 25 years or life for partisan resistance after Russian ‘torture so bad you’d confess to anything’ (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 19th)
Russia is putting Crimean Anatoliy Kobzar’s life in danger over two years after his brazen abduction (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 19th)
Progress of the war:
Starlink speed restrictions still in force (Meduza, 23 October)
Marxist fighters in the Ukrainian resistance (International Workers League-FI, October 18th)
Civilian casualties remain at record levels (Facebook, October 17th)
News from Ukraine:
Kyiv’s power ring under attack: why the capital faces a winter of blackouts (Ukrainska Pravda, October 24th)
270 Ukrainians Freed from Russian Captivity, Nearly a Third Convicted in Russia (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 23rd)
Pen pushers help keep Ukraine’s lights on (Centre for European Policy Analysis, 21 October)
What does resilience look like in the country’s education system? (Cedos, October 19th)
War-related news from Russia:
Network Case Defendant Vasily Kuksov Released from Prison (Russian Reader, October 24th)
Russian paper paints Ukraine as aggressor, Europe as victim (The Russian Reader, 23 October)
Putin’s “Doppelgängers”: The Insider gets inside the operations of the Kremlin’s foreign disinformation network (The Insider, October 21st)
Butter melted down to guns: Russia again cuts social spend to pay for war (The Insider, 21 October)
Russia turns on its scientists (Mediazona, 20 October)
Russia jails severely ill Ukrainian pensioner (Mediazona, 19 October)
Comment and analysis:
Oil-covered seas: can war damage to ecosystems be reduced (Ukraine War Environmental Consequences Work Group, 23 October)
An unofficial peace bid, and how it fell apart (Meduza, 23 October)
Putin Is No Humanitarian (Anti-capitalist musings, October 22nd)
Condemn assault on Ukrainian scholar Vladyslav Starodubtsev (Change.org, October 21st)
Countering the Predator: How to Stop Russia Recruiting Foreigners (Crimea Platform, October 19th)
Research of human rights abuses
The Lawyers Who Record a War: The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (Tribunal for Putin, October 23rd)
Ensuring history does not disappear: what data are needed for documenting the criminal (Tribunal for Putin, October 23rd)
Prisoners’ rights in Ukraine: Chronic problems (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 24 October)
Constitutional human rights and the Russian-Ukrainian war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 24th)
ZMINA joined discussion on supporting people affected by war at Tochka Skhodu forum in Kyiv (Zmina, October 22nd)
Shadow Report 2026: ZMINA took part in presenting an independent assessment of Ukraine’s progress on human rights on its path to EU accession (Zmina, October 21st)
Security, democracy, Russian recruitment, the pursuit of justice and AI: What was discussed at Crimea Global 2026 (Zmina, October 20th)
International solidarity:
‘With the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine, we are rebuilding internationalism’ (Links, October 22nd)
Major winter fundraiser: for autonomous power, heaters and gear (Solidarity Collectives, October)
Also not to be missed:
Mali: Army, Russia’s ‘Africa Corps’ Commit New Abuses (Human Rights Watch, October 22nd)
Kremlin payment firm A7 has been pumping billions in ‘untraceable’ cash into global financial system (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, October 21st)
The Traitor (The Russian Reader, 20 October)
Upcoming events:
Thursday 5 November, 6.0pm, on zoom: Reclaiming Crimean Tatar subjectivity under occupation, organised by UCU Members for Ukraine & Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. Details here.
Friday 13 November, 6.0pm, on zoom: The US midterms, Ukraine and the fight against fascism. Speakers: Tanya Vyhovsky, Vermont State Senator (Progressive / Democratic), Dylan Burns, journalist, streamer and founder of Track Ukraine. Details here.
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