Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has initiated pretrial investigations into almost 92,000 criminal proceedings related to the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Of these, […]
23.06.2023 • Natalia Tolub
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the torture and prosecution of two Ukrainian teenagers from occupied Berdiansk. The resolution was adopted with 425 votes in favour, three against, and 15 abstentions. MEPs demand […]
16.06.2023 • Natalia Tolub
Hearings within the consideration of the merits of Ukraine's lawsuit against the Russian Federation regarding violations of two UN conventions, which Ukraine filed in 2017, have begun at the UN International Court of Justice. The […]
06.06.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 24 May 2023, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation charged two teenagers, Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov, both born in 2006, with allegedly preparing sabotage on the railway in the temporarily occupied town […]
26.05.2023 • Natalia Tolub
The adoption by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of the resolution recognising the deportation of the Ukrainian children by Russia as genocide is an important step towards holding the Russian Federation and […]
28.04.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reacted to the first verdict of the Iranian judiciary in the case of the downed Boeing of Ukraine International Airlines (Flight PS752) over Tehran in January 2020. Diplomats […]
19.04.2023 • Natalia Tolub
Over the past nine months, the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has received dozens of videos showing the public execution of Ukrainian soldiers by Russian invaders. Ukrainian Ombudsman […]
17.04.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
During Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General's Office has registered more than 77,000 war crimes committed by the Russian occupation forces. This was reported by The Washington Post with reference to Ukrainian Prosecutor […]
15.04.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
More than 50 countries, including the European Union, in a joint statement condemned the speech at a UN Security Council meeting by Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, whose arrest warrant was issued by […]
06.04.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine condemns the repression against political prisoners illegally detained by Russia. Among the most recent egregious cases is the failure to provide proper medical care to citizen journalist Iryna […]
24.03.2023 • Natalia Tolub
Since the beginning of its aggression against Ukraine in 2014, the Russian Federation has violated cynically almost 400 different international treaties. This was stated by Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets. According to […]
22.03.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The coalition of countries for the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute the Russian Federation for its crime of aggression against Ukraine already consists of 30 countries. Greece has joined the group. "I am […]
07.03.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Government of Ukraine approved a draft Agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the International Criminal Court on the establishment of the Office of the International Criminal Court in Ukraine. The Agreement […]
06.03.2023 • Natalia Tolub
The Russians created a network of at least 20 torture chambers in the occupied territories of Ukraine which are part of a calculated Russian strategy to extinguish Ukrainian identity. This was the conclusion reached by […]
03.03.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
Currently, large-scale work is underway in Ukraine to identify children who were abducted by the Russian Federation in the occupied territories. It is already known about 16,226 such children. Commissioner of the President of Ukraine […]
22.02.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
In the temporarily occupied territories, Russian security forces seize passports from Ukrainians, the National Resistance Centre reports. It is also noted that the occupiers go to the homes of the population and demand that they […]
21.02.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Government of the Netherlands officially agreed to Ukraine's proposal to create an international organization in The Hague – the Register of Damages Caused to Ukraine by Russian Aggression. As the press service of the […]
18.02.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The discussion of the creation of an international special tribunal to prosecute Russia for the crime of aggression against Ukraine is now focused on the mechanisms for implementing such an initiative, not on the idea […]
14.02.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Media Initiative for Human Rights (MIHR) presented the analytical report "Quasi-legal system in the occupied territories: implementation and dissemination of practices." This is an attempt to identify the regulatory system functioning in the occupied […]
13.02.2023 • Natalia Tolub
Currently, the investigation has good reason to believe that the decision to supply the militants with a Buk surface-to-air missile system, which was used to shoot down MH17 passenger flight in the sky over Donbas […]
08.02.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak