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russian #Journalist Jailed for Writing Truth About Mariupol

by Jason Jay Smart

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Russian prosecutors requested that Maria Ponomarenko receive nine years of prison and a five-year suspension from her profession. Her crime? She wrote about Russia’s bombing, last March, of the theater in #mariupol, Ukraine, which killed hundreds of civilians, including many children.
Read it here🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11910

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine
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Wir veröffentlichen den folgenden Artikel in voller #Solidarität mit Assembly, einer anarchistischen Gruppe aus #Charkiw, die über die Kämpfe der ArbeiterInnen in der #Ukraine auf beiden Seiten der Frontlinie berichtet (siehe: assembly.org.ua). In einem kürzlich geführten Interview (siehe: umanitanova.org) sagten sie über sich selbst: „Wir geben nützliche Informationen für die ArbeiterInnen in ihrer täglichen Konfrontation mit den Bossen oder Beamten, und unsere Position der Verurteilung beider kriegführender Staaten ... ist denen ziemlich nahe, die in diesem trostlosen Loch ohne klare Zukunft nichts zu verteidigen haben." Sie kritisieren auch jene Anarchisten, die angesichts des imperialistischen Krieges „sofort mit der herrschenden Klasse in einem einzigen nationalistischen Impuls verschmolzen". Trotz unserer politischen Differenzen ist klar, dass #Assembly versucht, unter den schwierigsten Umständen einen internationalistischen Kurs zu fahren. Solche kritischen Stimmen sind wichtig, da sie zeigen, dass der Klassenkampf nicht aufhört, auch nicht im imperialistischen #Krieg. Sie widerlegen auch die Behauptungen einiger Anarchisten im #Westen, die mit dem „Zuhören der Stimmen aus der Ukraine“ die Verteidigung des ukrainischen Staates meinen.(1) Die derzeitige #Krise, die durch den Krieg in der Ukraine noch verschärft wird, führt zu immer mehr direkten Angriffen auf die ArbeiterInnenklasse in der ganzen Welt. Wenn die ArbeiterInnen diesem Treiben widerstehen sollen, müssen sie erkennen, dass sie mehr miteinander als mit ihren herrschenden Klassen gemeinsam haben. Mit den Worten von Assembly, „no #war but the social war!“

https://www.leftcom.org/de/articles/2022-09-10/bericht-%C3%BCber-die-sozialen-proteste-in-der-ukraine #imperialismus #arbeit #nationalismus #streik #krim #mariupol #repression

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Forty days after the unexplained explosion at the #Olenivka #prison in Russian-occupied #Donbas that killed over 50 Ukrainian prisoners of #war, the families of the defenders of #Mariupol and of the Azovstal Steelworks imprisoned by the Russians, have still not been told how many men were killed, and whether their loved ones were among them. #Russia is continuing to violate international law by preventing the International Committee of the Red Cross [ #ICRC] from visiting the site and speaking with surviving POWs. While more movement on a UN fact-finding mission has been announced, there is nothing to suggest that this equates to actual progress. On 3 August, #UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced plans for a fact-finding mission, saying that an independent investigation had been requested by both #Ukraine and Russia. On 22 August, we even learned the make-up of such a mission and the members’ credentials, however it was also reported that the UN believed the situation around the prison was too dangerous for such a trip to be undertaken.

It is difficult to see how reporting such illusory progress can help anyone but those responsible for the attack, and during their press conference on 6 September, the relatives of #Azovstal defenders imprisoned at Olenivka expressed frustration at the impotence of international bodies. Such lack of any progress makes it clear that all the POWs are in grave danger, and they demanded that more effective methods be applied to secure their release before it is too late.

https://khpg.org/en/1608811125 #uno #pmc #wagner #fsb #military

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Oksana Pokalchuk, who has spent seven years documenting and investigating human rights abuses as Director of Amnesty International #Ukraine, tendered her resignation on Friday as the backlash continued over a controversial #AmnestyInternational report titled, “Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians.”
The #Amnesty report, which accuses the Ukrainian #military of basing its troops too close to civilian infrastructure, has been widely condemned by Ukrainian officials and many others in the international community including #war crimes experts. Meanwhile, the #Kremlin has warmly welcomed Amnesty’s claims, with Russian officials actively promoting the report to justify #Moscow’s ongoing bombing campaign in Ukraine.

Pokalchuk took to #Facebook on August 4 to disavow the report, explaining that Amnesty’s global branch had effectively sidelined the Amnesty Ukraine team and proceeded with publication without their input or consent. She resigned the following day, writing, “Although unwillingly, the organization created material that sounds like support for Russian narratives. Seeking to protect civilians, the study has instead become a tool of Russian #propaganda.”

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/flawed-amnesty-report-risks-enabling-more-russian-war-crimes-in-ukraine/ #redcross #mariupol #callamard

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Screams from soldiers being tortured, overflowing cells, inhuman conditions, a regime of intimidation and murder. Inedible gruel, no communication with the outside world, and days marked off with a home-made calendar written on a box of tea.
This, according to a prisoner who was there, is what conditions are like inside #Olenivka, the notorious detention centre outside #Donetsk where dozens of Ukrainian soldiers burned to death in a horrific episode late last month while in Russian captivity.
Anna Vorosheva – a 45-year-old Ukrainian entrepreneur – gave a harrowing account to the Observer of her time inside the jail. She spent 100 days in Olenivka after being detained in mid-March at a checkpoint run by the pro-Russian Donetsk People’s Republic ( #DNR) in eastern #Ukraine.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/06/russian-prison-camp-ukrainians-deaths-donetsk #war #russia #mariupol #azov #fsb #zelenskiy #redcross