The Ukrainian side has submitted to the Venice Commission a draft law on the state policy of the transition period for Crimea and Donbas, according to Yuna Potiomkina, advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for […]
08.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 5 August, Ukraine commemorated the victims of the Great Terror of 1937-1938, one of the largest crimes committed by the Soviet authorities against humanity. The number of Ukraine’s victims affected by these massive Stalinist repressions […]
06.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The United States will continue its efforts to strengthen the capacity of Ukraine's army. "We will continue our efforts to build the capacity of the Ukrainian armed forces to defend Ukraine so that it is […]
05.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba provided a brief on the preparation of three key events to mark the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence: the inaugural summit of the Crimean Platform, the first Kyiv […]
02.08.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The first results of consideration of Ukraine's lawsuits against Russia in the Donbas case by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) should be expected no earlier than two years after the hearings, in the Crimea […]
30.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the year since the ceasefire was announced in Donbas, the losses of the Ukrainian armed forces halved as 45 Ukrainian service members have been killed, the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for the […]
27.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
In her recent statement, Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Heidi Grau said: “I have to note that the security situation continued to deteriorate over […]
27.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the first half of 2021, the counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine exposed three intelligence networks in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Mykolayiv, and Odesa regions and detained 18 agents of Russian special services. One […]
26.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its resolute protest over the adoption by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation of the decision to engage through electronic voting population of the temporarily […]
23.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A Belarusian citizen, Aleksey Fadeyev, who fought in Donbas on the side of Russian terrorist forces in 2014-2016, was sentenced to 21 years in prison in the Czech Republic. Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic Yevhen […]
23.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Thursday, 22 July, the Russian Federation filed the first-ever interstate lawsuit against Ukraine at the European Court of Human Rights. According to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, […]
22.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau expressed the stance of their countries on the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. “The decision […]
22.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Since the beginning of 2021, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has opened 328 criminal proceedings over encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, creation of terrorist groups or organisations. A total of 307 people […]
21.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian Institute is a key cultural diplomacy organisation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the basis of Ukraine’s “soft power.” Having established the Institute three years ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiated […]
19.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) summoned Russian defence minister Sergey Shoygu to Mariupol for questioning and served him with notice of criminal charges of creating and heading illegal armed formations. According to the SSU website, the […]
18.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, and the Netherlands made a joint statement on the 7th anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Donbas. The foreign ministers stressed the need to […]
17.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine hosted a panel discussion entitled "Building Resilience to Information Influence: Freedom of Speech as a Component of Information Security." In particular, in her speech, First Deputy Foreign Minister […]
16.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights unveiled the data on Donbas war casualties from 14 April 2014 to 30 June 2021. "The total number of casualties related to the conflict […]
15.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine welcomes the adoption of the resolution "Cooperation with and Assistance to Ukraine in the Field of Human Rights" by the UN Human Rights Council. The document stipulates that the UN Human Rights Council will continue […]
15.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission spotted tanks, howitzers, and mortars in occupied Donbas. This is stated in the Mission's daily report dated 13 July. In particular, OSCE SMM recorded three towed howitzers (D-30 Lyagushka, 122mm) in violation of […]
14.07.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak