 
																		
									
									Australia and Canada imposed sanctions on four companies and one Russian citizen over the construction and operation of the Kerch Bridge. According to Australia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne, targeted financial sanctions and travel bans were […]
									
										30.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									While the security situation significantly improved in eastern Ukraine in the second half of 2020, a new United Nations (UN) report highlights a series of conflict and non-conflict related human rights violations throughout the country. […]
									
										29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Bellingcat Investigation Team helped identify three Russians involved in war crimes and torture in the Izolyatsia prison, which is controlled by militants of the so-called “DPR” and is located in occupied Donetsk. Stanislav Aseev, journalist […]
									
										29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Over the past 24 hours, 28 March, 10 ceasefire violations were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in Donbas, including eight attacks on Ukrainian positions, one incident of remote mine delivery and one […]
									
										29.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Once the Government of Ukraine restores the control over Crimea, the Ukrainian authorities will deport all citizens of the Russian Federation, who moved to the territory of the peninsula illegally (bypassing the official Ukrainian border, entry-exit […]
									
										28.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is holding consultations with the Normandy Four leaders due to the intensification of shelling in Donbas, as a result of which four members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were […]
									
										27.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									The following is a joint statement by the Permanent Missions of Republic of Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, the Republic of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Republic of […]
									
										27.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree enacting the decision of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine of 25 March 2021 “On the Military Security Strategy of Ukraine.” The relevant document dated 25 […]
									
										26.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Decline in public support for the president spurs Russian government into dangerous adventures Vladimir Putin must experience a life triumph now: on 24 March, the State Duma passed at third reading the constitutional amendments to […]
									
										26.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									The publication of main provisions of the peace plan for the settlement of the situation in Donbas “Key Clusters for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements,” finalised by Ukraine, Germany and France, in the Russian […]
									
										25.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Two U.S. Senate Democrats urged U.S. President Joe Biden to apply all his diplomatic weight to stop the construction of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Robert Menendez and Jeanne Shaheen asked to speed […]
									
										25.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Russia does not have the needed amount of Sputnik V vaccine doses for its own population but is ready to sell the vaccine to any country, but it is unwilling to vaccinate its own citizens. […]
									
										24.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									The Kirovske District Court found Crimean Tatar Medzhyt Abliamitov guilty of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Voluntary Battalion under Article 208.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in illegal armed formation) and […]
									
										24.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									The opening of a Russian party representative office in the occupied areas of Donbas is more proof of the escalation on the part of the Russian Federation. "The Russian authorities continue to openly disregard the Minsk […]
									
										23.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) found three caches belonging to members of illegal armed formations in the Luhansk region. In particular, damaging agents of the Smerch multiple rocket launcher and more than […]
									
										22.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Attempted annexation of the Crimea by Russian Federation since 2014 has been condemned in a series of international acts, including UN GA resolutions 68/262, 75/192, 75/29 and others, resolutions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, of […]
									
										22.03.2021 • Natalia Tolub
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation of Russia’s […]
									
										19.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									On 17 March, the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations held an event dedicated to the situation in the temporarily occupied Crimea. The event pursued a propagandist objective: to spread false […]
									
										18.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									In 2021, the citizens of Ukraine may lose about 10,000 land plots in the territory of Crimea. The one-year term, which the Russian occupation authorities gave to "foreigners" for alienation, expires in March. Human rights […]
									
										17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak
									
								
															
																												 
																		
									
									Viktor Medvedchuk, an MP from the Opposition Platform – For Life party and father of Vladimir Putin's godchild, appealed to the Supreme Court of Ukraine to challenge the presidential decree imposing sanctions on him. “On […]
									
										17.03.2021 • Bohdan Marusyak