On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over the Russian-occupied Donbas. On the eighth anniversary of the tragedy, the Ukrainian authorities have emphasised that […]
17.07.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over the Russian-occupied Donbas. On the eighth anniversary of the tragedy, the Ukrainian authorities have emphasised that […]
17.07.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Forty-three OSCE participating States condemned torture and violence against civilians and military personnel during Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. René Dinesen, Permanent Representative of Denmark to OSCE, delivered a corresponding joint statement during the […]
08.07.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Since the beginning of the full-scale military aggression unleashed on 24 February, the Russian occupiers have deported more than 2.3 million Ukrainians from Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation. Almost 365,000 of them […]
05.07.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Court hearings to ban pro-Russian political forces are ongoing in Ukraine. For example, on Friday, 24 June, the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal in Lviv banned the pro-Russian Rus Yedyna party, formerly known as Putin's Politics […]
24.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The centre for victims of the war in Ukraine was solemnly opened next to the court building. At the centre, Belgian and Ukrainian lawyers will offer war victims legal aid to write lawsuits in case […]
22.06.2022 • Natalia Tolub
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky submitted […]
20.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Centre for the victims of war in Ukraine has been created at the initiative of the Brussels Bar, with the support of the Human Rights Institute of the Brussels Bar, Amnesty International and the […]
20.06.2022 • Natalia Tolub
Horrible Reality International mass media sources are full of information about and photos of atrocities committed by Russia after its invasion on 24 February 2022. The world has seen an unbelievable picture of war. Thus, […]
20.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
More than 800,000 residents of the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, occupied by Russia, have acquired expedited Russian citizenship, Russian propaganda media outlet TASS reports with reference to the data of the Ministry of Internal […]
11.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
A special information system – the "Book of Torturers" – will be launched next week in Ukraine. It will contain the confirmed data on war criminals from the Russian army. “Next week, a special ‘Book […]
08.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
To date, Kherson is the only regional centre that Russian troops managed to capture after the start of full-scale aggression against Ukraine. In the city and region, the invaders try to take measures to integrate […]
07.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
One hundred days of courageous resistance of the Ukrainian people to Russia’s full-scale invasion have clearly shown that this war will end with Russia’s defeat. This is underscored in a statement by the Ukrainian delegation […]
03.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Security Service of Ukraine published video of a conversation with a captured Russian sniper. He says he signed an agreement to kill civilians before leaving for Ukraine. According to the Russian, at the end of […]
01.06.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
Apart from Ukraine, the parliaments of Estonia, Latvia, Canada, Poland, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic recognised Russia's war crimes as genocide against the Ukrainian people. "I sincerely believe that the number of states that stand […]
29.05.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Russian Federation has illegally deported more than 17,300 Ukrainian citizens to its territory, including 2,213 children, in the last 24 hours alone. In total, more than 1.3 million Ukrainians have been deported to Russia, […]
21.05.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
As of today, 42 states have announced their intention to join Ukraine’s lawsuit against the Russian Federation at the United Nations International Court of Justice. “Forty-two states took Ukraine’s side in the case against Russia […]
20.05.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to partner human rights organisations, more than 37,000 citizens have already undergone a "filtration" procedure, in particular, people who were forcibly deported to Russia. Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova reported this. […]
17.05.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
At a special session on 12 May, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution calling for an investigation into Russia's war crimes in Ukraine, particularly in Mariupol city. The resolution points out "the deteriorating […]
13.05.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak
According to the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the service members of the aggressor country begin to realise Russia’s military defeat. Being aware of the inevitability of punishment for […]
12.05.2022 • Bohdan Marusyak