“My legs were black and blue from beatings” – Ukrainian hostage recalls Donbas militants’ torture
It was the morning of 9 November 2017 when Maryna Yurchak, a chemical technologist from Donetsk, was detained…
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Why the ECHR case against Russia is so important for Ukraine
On 26 January 2022, the Grand Chamber of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) started open…
Russian elections in Ukraine’s Donbas: Annexing people before annexing territory
The voting in the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” (DNR, LNR) marked the first time that local residents—legally…
Hundreds of victims of war criminals in Russian-occupied Donbas await justice. Here is what can help them
What is universal jurisdiction? To begin with, states have jurisdiction to investigate crimes committed on their territory, by…
Pregnant, tortured, seriously ill: the women devoured by concentration camp of Russian-occupied Donbas
These women include Oksana Parshyna, a pregnant woman detained on 14 May; Nataliya Statsenko, a doctor with a…
Russia’s ruling party starts campaigning in occupied Donbas for upcoming Duma elections
Developments in “DNR” and “LNR”: 23 June – 22 July 2021 Russian election campaign begins in Donetsk and…
UN releases data on Donbas war victims starting from 2014
In response to a request from RFE/RL, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has…
The struggle ongoing to prevent an environmental catastrophe in war-torn Donbas
This February, in order to draw public attention to looming natural, environmental, and industrial disasters in the Donbas,…
Forgotten political prisoners of the Kremlin have hopes for Blinken’s visit to Ukraine
The Kremlin’s Ukrainian political prisoners in Crimea are left to the mercy of fate. The issues of the…
Three warders who tortured prisoners in occupied Donbas “concentration camp” ID’d as Russian citizens
Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run "Donetsk People's Republic," has reported on his Facebook…
The quiet front: the battle of identities in occupied Crimea and Donbas
History weaponized Just as heavily armored “little green men” invaded and occupied Crimea, and Russian tanks entered eastern…
First public photos of Russian-run Donetsk concentration camp leaked online
Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The…
Ukrainian icon stolen from Luhansk and brought to Bosnia & Herzegovina by Serbian veterans, says Republika Srpska MP
The icon of St. Nicholas, presented to Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov, was brought to Bosnia…
Bosnian Serb Chairman Dodik presents Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov with 300-year-old Ukrainian icon
During his two-day visit to Bosnia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov received a 300-year-old gilded icon originating from…
I narrowly escaped death in dungeons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” This is what saved me. Part 2
Communication with the outside world A very colorful type appeared in the cell. They tossed in a person…
I survived the basement prisons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Here is what I saw. Part 1
Summer of 2014. At that time I worked as the deputy chief of the Luhansk Regional State Hospital…
“I’m going to war to save lives, not to fight,”- do not forget fallen Defender Oleksandr Kondratiuk
Oleksandr Kondratiuk. Saving Lives Author: Maksym Lyzhov “I’m going to war to save lives, not to fight,” volunteer…
International Criminal Court finally agrees to open case regarding war crimes in occupied Crimea and Donbas
In what Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called a "historic" decision, the International Criminal Court in The Hague…
The price of Russia’s war is too heavy for Ukraine to lift alone – report
On 25 June 2020, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) presented online its study on the…
Russian passport-holders in occupied Donbas shuttled to vote for Putin’s Constitution
Russia is shuttling residents of its statelets in eastern Ukraine to vote for the constitutional amendments set to…