During a plenary session in Brussels, the European Parliament adopted two resolutions on the foreign and security policy priorities of the European Union that mention the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The annual…
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office: One of Our Priorities is Peaceful Settlement of Russian-Ukrainian Armed Conflict
January 20, 2021
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba held talks with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde during her working visit to Ukraine. The Minister and the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office discussed the…
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry Wants to Hold Yandex Accountable for Activities in Occupied Crimea
January 19, 2021
Ukrainian diplomats are looking for opportunities to bring Russian company Yandex to justice for its activities in the occupied Crimea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said in response to an inquiry from the…
Ukraine Sets Date for Crimean Platform Summit
January 18, 2021
The Crimean Platform summit with the participation of foreign leaders is scheduled for 23 August 2021, the press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine reported citing a statement by Deputy Head of…
In 2020, 16 political prisoners from Crimea were given varying prison sentences (the highest of 19 years), 424 people were deprived of the right to a fair trial and 77 persons were illegally transferred outside…
The North Atlantic Alliance has seen increased military build-up by Russia, from the High North all the way to the Baltic region, Black Sea, Middle East, and North Africa. NATO is concerned about Russia’s expanded…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered the first judgement in the case Ukraine v. Russia regarding the occupation of Crimea, declaring Kyiv’s allegations of human rights violations on the occupied peninsula admissible. Thus,…
A Russian court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced three Crimean Tatar Muslims in the case of the Bilohirsk group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. All three men were sentenced to terms in a high-security prison on religious terrorism charges….
European Court of Human Rights to Rule on ‘Crimean Case’ Soon
January 10, 2021
Ukraine is awaiting a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the admissibility of a claim against Russia over an attempt to occupy Crimea in the coming days, Minister of Justice of Ukraine…
Over 205,000 Russians Resettled to Occupied Crimea
January 8, 2021
According to the website of the Office of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, a total of 33,137 people arrived in Crimea as part of the “interregional migration movement”…
New OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Going to Visit Ukraine
January 2, 2021
On 1 January 2021, Sweden took over the Chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden Ann Linde became a new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for a period…
MEPs Sent Support Letters to Ukrainian Political Prisoners
January 1, 2021
An MEP group sent letters of solidarity to Ukrainian political prisoners in the Russian Federation from the occupied Crimea. They addressed the messages to Remza Bekirov, Osman Arifmemetov, Yevhen Karakashev and Serhiy Filatov. The Crimean…
In 2020, Polish special services recorded an increase in the disinformation and propaganda activities of the Russian Federation against Poland. Both traditional and new narratives related to the pandemic and elections in Belarus were used,…
About 300,000 Ukrainian citizens were granted passports in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The deputy prime minister, minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov announced this….
Crimean Platform to Restrict Russia's Arbitrariness on Peninsula
December 25, 2020
The Ukrainian authorities plan to launch the Crimean platform at the 2021 summit in Kyiv. The Ukrainian foreign ministry head Dmytro Kuleba stated this in an interview. “Via sanctions strengthening we will restrict opportunities for…
On 4 April 2014, at an unscheduled meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu announced his intention to make the industry of the occupied peninsula…
The Ukrainian authorities are ready to supply water to the occupied Crimea in tanks as part of convoys controlled by humanitarian missions if the UN and the Red Cross declare a humanitarian catastrophe on the…
Under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, another 32 vessels have been identified as those that violated the order of entry to and…
Ukraine’s Ambassador to EU: European Union Remains Our Number One Partner in Counteracting Russian Aggression
December 21, 2020
The European Union remains a key partner of Ukraine in counteracting aggression of the Russian Federation, Ambassador of Ukraine to the EU Mykola Tochytskyi said during an online briefing within the conference of heads of…
Over the past year and a half, the number of articles about Ukraine in Crimean media outlets has decreased threefold, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI). The study focused…
