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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…