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Human Rights in Ukraine. Website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group |
Ukraine has passed information to the International Criminal Court [ICC] in the Hague about extrajudicial executions of nine Ukrainian soldiers taken prisoner during the battles for Ilovaisk and Debaltseve | detail
The Netherlands has seen no reason to mince words over Russia’s swift moves to ensure that MH17 suspect Vladimir Tsemach was safely out of the reach of the Dutch Public Prosecutor | detail
Russia’s return of the three naval vessels seized a year ago came six months after the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ordered the immediate return of the vessels, and three days before the first hearing in the Hague of Ukraine’s suit against Russia over the seizure | detail
The team investigating the downing by a Russian BUK missile of Malaysian airliner MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 has published damning evidence of direct high-level Russian links with militants from the so-called ’Donetsk people’s republic’ | detail
The UN’s International Court of Justice on 8 November rejected all of Russia’s objections and confirmed that it does have jurisdiction in both suits brought by Ukraine against Russia over violations of two international treaties. | detail
A Russian politician has asserted that Ukraine “must admit provocation” to get three seized naval vessels back. There was no ‘provocation’, only an act of aggression from Russia, but Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigations is inexplicably helping Russia push its false narrative. | detail
The Russian state-controlled RIA Novosti has posted an interview with Vladimir (Volodymyr) Tsemakh. a key witness / suspect, wanted in the Netherlands over the downing by a Russian BUK missile of Malaysian airliner MH17 | detail
A radio tower servicing the Fenix mobile operator was blown up on 27 October, with a video of the blast soon afterwards posted on YouTube, together with an ultimatum. | detail
Russia’s narrative about a ‘civil war’ in the East of Ukraine has received another knock, one that is totally self-inflicted | detail
Three men on trial over a 2015 terrorist attack in Kharkiv have reportedly been added to the list of prisoners who could be handed over to Russia in exchange for Ukrainian political prisoners | detail
Alexander Khodakovsky, one of the militant commanders of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ has admitted to bombing the city of Yasynovata in August 2014 | detail
Those still indignant that Ukraine handed over MH17 witness Volodymyr Tsemakh to Russia might take the advice of one of the freed political prisoners’ brother, and ask whether their mothers or their children “would be worth” such an exchange | detail
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not try to conceal the link between Ukraine’s release of key MH17 witness (or suspect) Volodymyr Tsemakh and the release of Ukrainian hostages held in Russia | detail
Roman Lyahin was one of the ideologues of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ and also led the seizure of the Izolyatsia Arts Centre in Donetsk and its transformation into what former hostages call a real concentration camp. | detail
It is impossible to name all the victims of Russia’s aggression, but on this Day of the Ukrainian Flag, we can at least remember three tortured and murdered Ukrainians – Reshat Ametov; Volodymyr Rybak and 16-year-old Stepan Chubenko | detail
Alexander Borodai, one of the first leaders of the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republics’ has admitted that without Russia’s military intervention, he and the other ‘insurgents’ would be dead | detail
Rafael Lusvarghi’s 13-year sentence for fighting on the side of the Russian-backed militants in Donbas has come into force after the 34-year-old Brazilian’s surprise withdrawal of his appeal | detail
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission [SMM] has reported another convoy of Russian trucks in Ukraine | detail
Stepan Chubenko should have been turning 21 this year, a young man with his life ahead of him. He was savagely tortured and then killed when he was just 16, after the Russian-armed and controlled militants in Donetsk grabbed him because of ribbons in the colours of the Ukrainian flag on his rucksack | detail
A number of families who lost relatives when Malaysian airliner MH17 was downed by a Russian BUK missile exactly five years ago have called on the Russian government to cooperate with the investigation, acknowledge their share of the responsibility and to stop lying about the disaster | detail
