New UNGA resolution: Crimea temporarily occupied by Russia, Russia must release political prisoners & stop repressions
On 22 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A73/L.48 titled “Situation of human rights in…
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EU Parliament calls to stop NordStream2, impose sanctions if Russia doesn’t release captured sailors
On 12 December 2018, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling to stop the construction of the NordStream2…
Putin treating captured Ukrainian sailors the way Stalin would have, Eidman says
The international community must do everything possible to save the Ukrainian sailors Russian forces took prisoner because Vladimir…
Moscow Patriarchate takes lead in prisoner exchange to its benefit in Ukraine
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, virtually “the last acceptable mediator between Moscow and Kyiv,” played…
Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics”
Russia had effectively blocked the prisoner exchange process in the Donbas for 15 months from September 2016, when two Ukrainian…
Ukraine may swap its 74 hostages in occupied Donbas before New Year
The prisoner swap process had been de-facto blocked by Russia for 15 months. The last exchange took place on…
The humanitarian factor in Russia’s hybrid war
The recent release of convicted Crimean Tatar leaders Ilmi Umerov and Akhmet Chiygoz marks the first release of…
Blood coal: oligarchs, terrorists and POW labor in Russo-Ukrainian war
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) revealed one of numerous schemes by which the so-called republic’s leaders receive money from…
Savchenko free, Russians furious and confused
“One Ukrainian woman is worth two Russian men,” many commentators noted as they witnessed an obviously unsymmetrical comeback…
Ukraine: the country that cares
The difference in the welcomes given the released prisoners in Kyiv and Moscow says more about the Russian-Ukrainian…
“We will live a dignified life in Ukraine as it should be” -Savchenko’s first words at home
After 707 days of imprisonment, the kidnapped and unlawfully convicted on fabricated charges Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was…
Prosecution to present a fake witness, says Savchenko lawyer Mark Feygin
On 3 February, the court in Donetsk, Russia decided to allow Savchenko case investigator Dmitriy Manshin to testify. Ukraine’s…