The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol served eight military commissars, who have been directly organising and conducting illegal conscription campaigns in various districts of the occupied Crimea since 2015, with notices…
Twenty-Eight Countries and Organisations Have Already Confirmed Participation in Crimean Platform
July 28, 2021
As of Wednesday, 28 July, 28 countries and international organisations already confirmed their participation in the Crimean Platform summit scheduled for August, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said. “This will be an unprecedented…
Three Intelligence Networks Exposed, 18 Agents of Russian Special Services Detained in Ukraine
July 26, 2021
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…
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,…
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…
Dmytro Kuleba Summarises Achievements of MFA’s Ukrainian Institute for Three Years of Its Activity
July 19, 2021
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…
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…
UN Council Adopts Resolution ‘Cooperation with and Assistance to Ukraine in the Field of Human Rights’
July 15, 2021
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…
Russia Making Threats Against Countries that Agreed to Participate in Crimean Platform Summit
July 12, 2021
Russian diplomats are making threats against those countries that agreed to take part in the Crimean Platform international summit. “Russian diplomatic missions make efforts to discredit the Crimean Platform. We receive information about this, including…
In June 2021, the Cyber Security Situation Centre of the Security Service of Ukraine stopped and neutralised 76 cyber attacks on information systems of government agencies. The main types of cyber threats (hacker attacks) detected were:…
The official closing ceremony of the international military exercise Sea Breeze 2021, the largest in the history of Ukraine’s independence, took place in Odesa. Rear Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa, Commander of the Ukrainian Navy, declared the maneuvers…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine welcomes the adoption by the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE PA) on 6 July of an urgent resolution “On…
Over the past year and a half, Ukraine has initiated three new international formats of cooperation in the Baltic-Black Sea region that strengthen the security of our country: the Lublin Triangle with Poland and Lithuania,…
The counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) exposed an illegal scheme of involvement of labour migrants from Ukraine by the Russian Federation. They wanted to employ Ukrainians at the facilities of the Russian military-industrial complex….
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed, as a basis and on the whole, the bill “On Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine.” The bill was supported by 325 lawmakers at an extraordinary plenary sitting of the Verkhovna Rada….
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing servicemen and employees of the National Guard of Russia to “block the territories and waters of protected facilities to prevent illegal entry attempts.” The relevant document…
Ukraine to Increase Number of Servicemen
July 1, 2021
The Verkhovna Rada has adopted, in the first reading, bills necessary for the creation of territorial defence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and also called for an increase in the size of the Armed…
Russia Announces Test of Its Air Defence System in Occupied Crimea Due to Start of Exercise Sea Breeze
June 29, 2021
The Russian Federation has announced the test of readiness of its air defence system in the occupied Crimea due to the start of the international military Exercise Sea Breeze. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet informed that…
Seven Years of Occupation of Crimea: Human Rights Activists Systematise Human Rights Violations on Peninsula
June 28, 2021
Ukraine has presented a report systematising human rights violations in Crimea over the seven years of occupation. The analytical document is divided into main groups of rights: civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. The…
Agent of Russian Special Services Tried to Smuggle Goods from Ukraine for Military-Industrial Complex of Russia
June 28, 2021
Counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) stopped the illegal activities of a Ukrainian citizen who was recruited by Russian special services. By the order of Russian curators, he tried to establish a channel for the…
