The Russian Federation has actively used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) since the beginning of the Donbas war. During the first years, some of them were launched from the neighbouring state's territory and flew towards Ukraine. […]
12.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Russian military in the Donbas has been using UK produced sniper rifles against the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the past two years. At the same time, the British government has never permitted the […]
11.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is strengthening control over the activities of the command staff of units of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces in the temporarily occupied […]
09.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russia's long-term foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has called for the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation) peacekeepers capacity increase to become the UN peacekeeping mission part. The CSTO was created after the Soviet Union and the […]
06.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Leonid Kravchuk, the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Tripartite Contact Group, announced the creation of a council with the participants from the Donbas region. Kravchuk noted that many people offer their aid in […]
05.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russia's armed forces violated the ceasefire four times on 4 October, the Joint Forces Operations Headquarters reports. Thus, enemy shots with small arms were fixed near Avdiivka and Katerynivka, with an automatic easel grenade launcher […]
05.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine has a prepared plan for a peaceful settlement of the war in Donbas, the final stage of which is local elections. Ukraine's Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak made the corresponding statement. "One of the great […]
04.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The second court hearing on the appeal against Vitaliy Markiv, the National Guard sentenced to 24 years in prison for alleged involvement in the deaths of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and Russian translator Andrei Mironov, […]
02.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is considering joining the lawsuit of the Netherlands in the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the downed Boeing MH17 aircraft over Donbas in 2014. This […]
02.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine's General Prosecutor Office has sent a report to the International Criminal Court about the propaganda policy and the imposition of military service among children in the annexed Crimea by the occupying power. "The militarisation […]
02.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukrainian children in the war zone in Donbas have a terrible childhood. Russian aggression and the hybrid war leave no chance for a happy, peaceful youth. 240 children have died here since the beginning of […]
01.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The results of the monitoring of the Crimean Human Rights Group confirm that after the Russian occupation of Crimea, the use of torture by the FSB and the police against Ukrainian citizens became not only […]
01.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine continue to fix the attempts to recruit Ukrainians by the so-called "MDB LNR." The public authorities and administration representatives, as well as law enforcement officers who have access to […]
01.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
A regular meeeting of the Tripartite Contact Group (TCG) took place through a videoconference with the participation of the delegations of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and under the OSCE moderation, the Presidential Office informs. The […]
01.10.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Dmytro Kuleba condemned terrorism and violent extremism as one of the core challenges to international peace and development. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister drew the participants' attention to Ukraine's experience at the virtual II Ministerial Meeting […]
30.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
There are threatening trends in Russia, namely the growth of the xenophobic sentiment, the Levada Centre reports. According to its monitoring results, ethnophobia in Russia in 2019 reached 71% against 54% in 2017. Anti-immigrant sentiment […]
29.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The ambassadors of the European Union agreed to impose sanctions against the Russian Federation for the construction of a bridge in the Kerch Strait, which connected the annexed Crimea with Russia's mainland. Economic restrictions will […]
29.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The situation with the water supply in the Crimea gets worse every day. Because of this, the head of the occupying power, Sergey Aksyonov, gave the instructions to buy water sources forcibly from private owners on […]
29.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russia has illegally annexed Crimea and supports aggression in eastern Ukraine that threatens global security. Stefan Leven, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sweden, stated this in his speech at the United Nations General […]
28.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The United Nations has presented a new report which highlights the COVID-19 pandemic impact and its response to human rights in Ukraine. The report presents the results of six-month monitoring in the period from 16 […]
24.09.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak