BBC: Satellite images show over 1,500 new graves near occupied Mariupol. Maxar's new satellite images show that three mass burial sites near occupied Mariupol have "steadily" grown since spring, according to the BBC. There are roughly 1,500 new graves at one of them – in Staryi Krym, north of Mariupol, it wrote. In total, in Staryi Krym, more than 4,600 graves have been dug since the beginning of Russia's all-out invasion.

OHCHR: July civilian casualty update counted over 11, 000 people have been killed. Actual numbers are predicted to be much higher. There are many regions where bodies remain buried under rubble or in mass graves. This concerns regions such as Mariupol (Donetsk region), Izium (Kharkiv region), Lysychansk, Popasna, and Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region).

“Ukraine has never refused to negotiate” with Russia, but that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not ready to do so. Podolyak said that, instead, Kyiv “will talk with the next leader” of the Russian Federation.

See news sources here: Kyiv Independent, Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre and the Guardian.

Ukrainska Pravda news feed (Eng).

‘Accountability Gap’: investigating war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.

A.Tooze, War at the end of History

Putin’s Play Book, with Carlotta Gall (Daily Podcast)

Putin’s Endgame, with Fiona Hill and Ezra Klein.

S. Tisdale, Ukraine: crucible of new world order

L. Freedman, Putin’s War

Dependence on Russian fuel and Fossil fuel war.

Ukrainian history and Russia’s claim over Ukrainian identity and sovereignty.

• The illegal annexation of Crimea, including Russian denial of their breach of international laws.

• Maidan (2013-2014), including the ongoing transformation of Ukrainian legal and political systems

• The occupation of Donetsk and Luhansk which began in 2014.

• learn about Holodomor.

Check out the Lviv Book Forum 6-9 October 2022.

Support Ukrainian journalism for people in Ukraine (+ abroad) to stay informed in Ukrainian & Russian.

Boycott companies still trading with Russia in spite of sanctions.

Donate directly to Ukraine: Come Back Alive (Povertaysya Zhyvym).

Russian forces hold over 3,000 Mariupol residents in ‘filtration prison. Civilians are tortured, according to the official.

Mariupol on verge of outbreak of infectious diseases. Mayor Boychenko said that in addition to the humanitarian catastrophe created by Russia’s forces, the city faces an outbreak of contagious diseases.

UN: 7,814 civilian casualties in Ukraine due to Russia’s war. Actual figures are considerably higher than the confirmed numbers. Evidence of civilian targeting, rape, torture, dismemberment, burning and bodies being left to decompose is common.

International Criminal Court deployed 42 staffers to Ukraine to investigate alleged war crimes committed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began.

Bucha. Evidence of torture, rape used as a tool of war.

See news sources here:Kyiv Independent, Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre and the Guardian.

Ukrainska Pravda news feed (Eng).

The Daily NYT podcasts and Ukrainecast BBC.

Articles that offer analysis about the current invasion. Will be updated regularly.

A.Tooze, War at the end of History

Putin’s Play Book, with Carlotta Gall (Daily Podcast)

Putin’s Endgame, with Fiona Hill and Ezra Klein.

S. Tisdale, Ukraine: crucible of new world order

L. Freedman, Putin’s War

Dependence on Russian fuel and Fossil fuel war.

Information wars: Ukraine overcoming Russia’s deception: Canadaland

Background to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

• learn about Ukrainian history and Russia’s claim over Ukrainian identity and sovereignty.

• learn about the illegal annexation of Crimea, including Russian denial of their breach of international laws.

• learn about Maidan (2013-2014), including the ongoing transformation of Ukrainian legal and political systems

• learn about the occupation of Donetsk and Luhansk which began in 2014.

• learn about Holodomor.

Stay informed.

Read, and consider supporting, Ukrainian journalism for people in Ukraine (+ abroad) to stay informed in Ukrainian & Russian.

Boycott companies still trading with Russia in spite of sanctions.

Donate directly to Ukraine: Come Back Alive (Povertaysya Zhyvym).

Donate in your country (e.g. Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB); Canadian-Ukraine foundation;

Support to people in need of refuge.

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