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Crimes of the Russian occupation regime in Donbas
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“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…
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
[editorial]Three warders involved in torturing prisoners at Izolyatsia, the illegal makeshift prison in occupied Donetsk termed a “concentration…
The quiet front: the battle of identities in occupied Crimea and Donbas
[editorial]Beyond the sizzling trench warfare in occupied Donbas, a no less important battle is being fought. In a…
First public photos of Russian-run Donetsk concentration camp leaked online
[editorial] Izolyatsia (“isolation” or “insulation”) is the name of an art center that emerged at the deserted Insulation…
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
[editorial] Oleksandr Hryshchenko is a 60-year-old Luhansk veterinarian who lives in Kyiv. In 2014, he spent six months…
I survived the basement prisons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Here is what I saw. Part 1
[editorial]Oleksandr Hryshchenko is a 60-year-old Luhansk veterinarian who lives in Kyiv. In 2014, he spent six months “in…
“I’m going to war to save lives, not to fight,”- do not forget fallen Defender Oleksandr Kondratiuk
[editorial]This is an essay by Ukrainian poet Maksym Lyzhov, dedicated to fallen Defender Oleksandr Kondratiuk, call sign “Black…
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…