Russian militant Yan Petrovsky, who was released from a Finnish prison on 8 December despite Ukraine having requested his extradition, has been detained by Finnish border guards and is likely to be deported from the country.
Mark Osborn, a teacher from south London, recently met activists from Ukraine’s Free Trade Union of Education and Science Workers (VPONU), an affiliate of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU), in Lviv and Kyiv. On 22 August, in western Ukraine, I met the Lviv Committee of VPONU. Nataliia Babych told me that Ukrainian education workers needed solidarity from British unions: “We want to survive. We want to be free and live in an independent Ukraine. We want to live in a democratic state.”
Mark Osborn, a teacher from south London, recently met activists from Ukraine’s Free Trade Union of Education and Science Workers (VPONU), an affiliate of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU), in Lviv and Kyiv. On 22 August, in western Ukraine, I met the Lviv Committee of VPONU. Nataliia Babych told me that Ukrainian education workers needed solidarity from British unions: “We want to survive. We want to be free and live in an independent Ukraine. We want to live in a democratic state.”
A terrorist of the Russian-controlled Luhansk puppet authority, or “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”), has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, the Office of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General reported on Facebook on Aug. 9.