While the security situation significantly improved in eastern Ukraine in the second half of 2020, a new United Nations (UN) report highlights a series of conflict and non-conflict related human rights violations throughout the country. […]
29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Bellingcat Investigation Team helped identify three Russians involved in war crimes and torture in the Izolyatsia prison, which is controlled by militants of the so-called “DPR” and is located in occupied Donetsk. Stanislav Aseev, journalist […]
29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the past 24 hours, 28 March, 10 ceasefire violations were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in Donbas, including eight attacks on Ukrainian positions, one incident of remote mine delivery and one […]
29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is holding consultations with the Normandy Four leaders due to the intensification of shelling in Donbas, as a result of which four members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were […]
27.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The following is a joint statement by the Permanent Missions of Republic of Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, the Republic of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Republic of […]
27.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree enacting the decision of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine of 25 March 2021 “On the Military Security Strategy of Ukraine.” The relevant document dated 25 […]
26.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
A court of appeal in France closed the “DPR centre,” the illegal representative office of the self-proclaimed republic in Marseille. The representatives of the “centre” themselves informed about the court ruling. Minister of Foreign Affairs […]
25.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The publication of main provisions of the peace plan for the settlement of the situation in Donbas “Key Clusters for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements,” finalised by Ukraine, Germany and France, in the Russian […]
25.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Two U.S. Senate Democrats urged U.S. President Joe Biden to apply all his diplomatic weight to stop the construction of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Robert Menendez and Jeanne Shaheen asked to speed […]
25.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russia does not have the needed amount of Sputnik V vaccine doses for its own population but is ready to sell the vaccine to any country, but it is unwilling to vaccinate its own citizens. […]
24.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Kirovske District Court found Crimean Tatar Medzhyt Abliamitov guilty of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Voluntary Battalion under Article 208.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in illegal armed formation) and […]
24.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The opening of a Russian party representative office in the occupied areas of Donbas is more proof of the escalation on the part of the Russian Federation. "The Russian authorities continue to openly disregard the Minsk […]
23.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 22 March, a new EU human rights sanctions regime took effect. China, Russia, Myanmar and Libya will be the first countries to face new sanctions. These will be personal blocking restrictions: ban on entry […]
23.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) found three caches belonging to members of illegal armed formations in the Luhansk region. In particular, damaging agents of the Smerch multiple rocket launcher and more than […]
22.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Russian Federation proposes to change the form of organisation of the Normandy Four meetings, using the principle of rotation of heads. The proposal was made by Dmitry Kozak, the deputy head of the Russian […]
20.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation of Russia’s […]
19.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
Viktor Medvedchuk, an MP from the Opposition Platform – For Life party and father of Vladimir Putin's godchild, appealed to the Supreme Court of Ukraine to challenge the presidential decree imposing sanctions on him. “On […]
17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Board of Directors of the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) expelled the Association of Ukrainian Societies in Latvia (AUSL) from its ranks due to the anti-Ukrainian activities. As the press service of the UWC informs, […]
15.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has opened 16,643 criminal proceedings over treason and terrorism since 2014, Chief of SBU Ivan Bakanov announced after the National Security and Defence Council meeting. "Any crime against statehood […]
15.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Servant of the People party initiated the creation of a temporary commission of inquiry (TCI) in the Verkhovna Rada to investigate the possible involvement of senior Ukrainian officials in the leak of information about […]
14.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak