On 22 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A73/L.48 titled “Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine.” Volodymyr Yelchenko, Permanent...
The international community must do everything possible to save the Ukrainian sailors Russian forces took prisoner because Vladimir Putin is behaving toward them in exactly the same way Stalin treated his enemies in 1937, accusing them of...
“One Ukrainian woman is worth two Russian men,” many commentators noted as they witnessed an obviously unsymmetrical comeback scene of Savchenko to Ukraine and Russian military intelligence officers Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev to Russia....
The difference in the welcomes given the released prisoners in Kyiv and Moscow says more about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict than dozens of words. Nadiya Savchenko was greeted as a heroine in Ukraine’s capital. The entire world has...
After 707 days of imprisonment, the kidnapped and unlawfully convicted on fabricated charges Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was exchanged for two Russian prisoners of war, GRU military intelligence officers Aleksandr Aleksandrov and...
Who can punish Russia for war crimes in Donbas? First of all, every state has an obligation to prosecute people who have committed international crimes, including war crimes. If states fail, or they are not willing to prosecute, then there...
Polish parliamentarian Małgorzata Gosiewska of Poland’s Law and Justice Party published a report titled “Russian War Crimes in Eastern Ukraine in 2014.” The document, written by the parliamentarian with the support of...
“They beat us with pipes, stools, and table legs. We were struck on the head, in the groin. They burnt our hands with a red-hot iron. But the worst was when they broke a prisoner completely.” Lviv – For 197 days Ukrainian...
Internecine warfare has broken out among the volunteer fighters of LNR so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” is a hybrid military formation consisting of mercenary and regular Russian troops in the occupied territory of...
A 64-year-old Urzuf resident whose son, a volunteer soldier with Ukrainian forces, was killed by Russian militants, recorded testimonies of former prisoners of war (POWs) who witnessed Bezler’s thugs drill into the legs of his son...
“There will be no veterans of World War III.” Walter Mondale, former U.S. Vice-President Events in 2018 have confirmed the fears and predictions of both pragmatists and realists: Europe continues to bury its head in its own affairs,...
