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DOWNLOAD THE BULLETIN AS A PDF HERE “Pure looting, thievery and banditry” by Russian occupation forces / jailed Crimea activist on hunger strike / Ukraine’s Jewish writers / Opora questions electoral law / Ukraine soldiers face wage cuts / human rights groups oppose information limits / Russia targets Memorial / Comments on Putin’s arrest warrant…

DOWNLOAD THE BULLETIN AS A PDF HERE Russia’s ‘liquidation of dissenters’ in Crimea / eyewitness accounts of occupation tactics: ‘houses have been destroyed, people have nowhere to return to’ / Soviet-era denunciations for opposing war / Ukraine human rightrs defenders oppose limits on information rights / Labour rights & social justice are central to the…

DOWNLOAD THE BULLETIN AS A PDF HERE News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russia demands 18-year sentence for Crimean Solidarity human rights activism in occupied Crimea  / Body of 63-year-old tortured man found in Kherson Oblast  / Donbas terrorists jail human rights activist Butkevych for 13 years  / Russian FSB ‘investigator’ involved in Crimean…

DOWNLOAD BULLETIN NO. 36 AS A PDF HERE News from the territories occupied by Russia:Russians restrict movement of residents without Russian passports in Luhansk Oblast / ‘Court’ in Russian-occupied Crimea passes long sentences against three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses / Russia sends convicted prisoner mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and imposes up to 15-year sentences for…

DOWNLOAD THE BULLETIN HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia:Russia must withdraw troops from all Occupied Territories – Crimea Platform / Russians brought children whose mother was killed in Mariupol to pro-war rally in Moscow / Invaders seize and imprison former Ukrainian soldier, then kidnap his three children to Russia ‘for…

■ DOWNLOAD THE BULLETIN HERE In this week’s bulletin: News from the territories occupied by Russia: Ukrainians tortured into ‘confessing’ to killing collaborators in Russian-occupied Berdiansk  / Crimea activist illegally searched, detained and fined / Stories from Crimea: How Alena Lunova fought for freedom of peninsula  / Journalist sentenced to six years for reporting Russia’s…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russia tortures Crimean Tatar political prisoner Dzhemil Gafarov to death (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, February 13th) Statement by human rights organizations regarding the death of Ukrainian prisoners of the Kremlin Kostiantyn Shyring and Dzhemil…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russia intends to deport children from occupied Luhansk Oblast to Karelia, Russia (Ukrainska Pravda, February 5th) Russians abduct, torture and imprison young Crimean Tatar from Kherson oblast, then come for his father (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: ‘A concentration camp for kids’ Journalists discovered 14 Ukrainian orphans from Kherson in a Crimean orphanage with brutal conditions (Meduza, January 27th)Ukrainian works of literature and history banned as ‘extremist’ in Russian occupied Luhansk oblast…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD AS A PDF HERE News from the territories occupied by Russia: Volunteer and patriot abducted in Kherson: the story of Iryna Horobtsova (Centre for Civil Liberties, January 20th)Crimean lecturer faces 5-year sentence for writing about Russia’s killing of innocent civilians in Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia:The Face of Russian terror against Crimean Tatars (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 13th)Russia abducts and tortures Kherson official and his family for serving Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, January 13th)Kherson Mayor, Igor Kolikhayev,…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Women taken out of maternity hospital in Antratsyt to accommodate Russian troops  (Ukrainska Pravda, January 8th) Russians take 300 children from Donbas to Moscow: allegedly because of “serious injuries” (Ukrainska Pravda, January 7th) Russia abducted,…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD AS A PDF HERE News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russia moves to legislate ‘impunity’ for all war crimes committed in occupied Ukraine  (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 30th) Crimean Tatar civic journalist sentenced to 11 years for refusing to collaborate with Russia’s FSB…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russia demolishes Mariupol Drama Theatre to try to blame Ukraine for its most heinous war crime  (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 27th) Four Russian invaders sentenced to 11 years for torturing hostages in Kharkiv…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russians abduct about 40 children from Luhansk Oblast to Russia  (Ukrainska Pravda, December 16th) Russian invaders abduct Melitopol lecturer in new wave of terror (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 15th) Unending torture of Crimean…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is a clear act of genocide –  Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, 9 December Children in occupied Melitopol forced to write ‘letters of gratitude’ to Russian invaders –…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russian occupiers hand out draft summons to residents queuing for water in occupied Makiivka  (Ukrainska Pravda, December 4th) ‘Pensioner from Makariv witnesses the death of his grandson’  (Tribunal for Putin, December 2nd) The Russians “amused…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Savage sentences against Crimean Tatar journalists for reporting on Russia’s ‘state terrorism’ in occupied Crimea  (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, November 26th) Russian invaders kill 10 and wound more than 50 people in Kherson Oblast…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Bodies of over 700 civilians discovered in liberated Kharkiv, Kherson and Donetsk oblasts  (Ukrainska Pravda, November 19th) Even teens were held in torture chambers in Kherson Oblast   (Ukrainska Pravda, November 18th) Russians shoot family with…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: More bodies of civilians killed during Russian occupation found in Donetsk Oblast  (Ukrainska Pravda, November 13th) How Russia is mobilizing Ukrainians in occupied territories (The Insider, 12 November) Russians steal 15,000 paintings from Kherson Oblast…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Occupiers transfer their refuseniks to another underground detention camp, undress them and threaten their lives (Ukrainska Pravda, November 5th) ‘Dad, you have five days before they adopt us’ How a Mariupol father survived a Russian…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE AS A PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: More bodies of civilians recovered in Donetsk Oblast  (Ukrainska Pravda, October 30th) Russian occupation forces plant twice as many mines now as they did in Kyiv Oblast   (Ukrainska Pravda, October 29th) Occupiers relocate Kherson public…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE as a PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: Occupiers are compiling lists of those willing to settle in other people’s homes in Sievierodonetsk  (Ukrainska Pravda, October 23rd) Russian invaders destroy Memorial to Victims of Holodomor in Mariupol  (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources – DOWNLOAD HERE as a PDF News from the territories occupied by Russia: More bodies of those killed during occupation found in Lyman  (Ukrainska Pravda, October 16th) Russian occupiers kidnap people and take looted property away by trucks in Kherson Oblast  (Ukrainska Pravda, October 15th) The main claim…

News from the territories occupied by Russia: Invaders want to take children and elderly people out of Kherson Oblast  (Ukrainska Pravda, October 8th) Russia sentences three Ukrainian Jehovah’s Witnesses to six years for ‘threatening state security’ by discussing the Bible  (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, October 7th) Bodies of more tortured victims and Russian torture…

News from the territories occupied by Russia: Ukraine war: Tortured for refusing to teach in Russian  (BBC News, October 1st) Russian occupation means 14-year sentences for being Ukrainian and refusing to ‘confess’ to insane charges  (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 30th) Russian occupiers force doctors and teachers of Mariupol to hand over their Ukrainian…

News from the territories occupied by Russia: Silence abets Russia in torturing and risking the lives of Ukrainian hostages and POWs in occupied Donbas  (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, September 23rd) Eighteen torture chambers discovered in Kharkiv Oblast, over 1,000 Russian war criminals identified  (Ukrainska Pravda, September 23rd) Police discover torture chamber and mass grave…

News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russian army seizes children’s library and bank with assets worth US$40,000 in Kherson (Ukrainska Pravda, September 14th) Ukraine war: Accounts of Russian torture emerge in liberated areas  (BBC, September 13th) The occupiers in Balakliia set up a prison, where they tortured people – National Police (Ukrainska Pravda, September…

News from the territories occupied by Russia: Ombudsman on Olenivka tragedy: Russia wipes out evidence of war crime  (Ukrainska Pravda, September 2nd) Occupiers urge schoolchildren in Crimea to join Russian army on 1 September  (Ukrainska Pravda, September 2nd) Russia plans special propaganda ‘lesson’ explaining to children in occupied Ukraine why the bombing of their cities…

News from the territories occupied by Russia: ‘Tavriya TV will promote happiness and love’: Russia opens station in occupied Kherson  (The Guardian, August 27th) Spent a few days imbibing the upside-down world of Russia’s TV and newspaper propaganda efforts in occupied Kherson region… (Twitter thread from Shaun Walker, August 27th) Russians torture staff of Zaporizhzhia…

A Digest of News from Ukrainian Sources News from the territories occupied by Russia: Russian occupation authorities bring young people to Kherson to paint over Ukrainian symbols – Military Administration   (Ukrainska Pravda, August 19th) Jail or steep fines in Russian-occupied Crimea for playing a Ukrainian anti-war song or for saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’  (KHPG, August…