International Committee of the Red Cross

In Odesa region, authorities met with relatives of Ukrainian prisoners of war. The ICRC representatives did not show up, despite the invitation. The issues of searching for missing persons, communication and legislative changes were discussed.

In Donetsk region, a temporary traffic restriction was introduced for volunteers in the areas of active hostilities. To work in these areas, non-governmental organizations need to obtain written permission from the military administration.

Dmytro Lubinets appealed to the UN and ICRC over a video showing the severed head of an alleged Ukrainian soldier. The Ombudsman emphasized that this is a violation of international humanitarian law.

Ombudsman Lubinets reported on a conversation with the Russian side regarding the exchange of prisoners after the Ukrainian army's offensive in the Kursk region. Ukraine is ready to continue the exchange process, with priority given to the seriously wounded and women.

The governor of Kursk region announced the mandatory evacuation of the village of Glushkovo. More than 8,000 people have already been evacuated from the border areas of the region and placed in 143 temporary accommodation centers in 11 regions of the Russian Federation.

The President of Ukraine held a meeting on the creation of a 'buffer zone' in the Kursk region. The issues of security, humanitarian aid and compliance with international law in this area were discussed.

Law enforcement officials have launched a pre-trial investigation into the murder and dismemberment of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by the occupiers. Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said that Russia was repeating the crimes of the Nazis.

A photo of the body of a Ukrainian prisoner with signs of torture has been posted online. Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets appealed to the ICRC and the UN to record human rights violations by Russia.

Dmytro Lubinets appealed to the Russian Ombudsman regarding the death of Oleksandr Ishchenko in a Russian detention center. He demands compliance with the Geneva Conventions and the provision of medical care to Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announced that he had begun receiving information about prisoners from the Russian Federation. He emphasized the need to put pressure on Russia and the ICRC to ensure proper treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Ombudsman Lubinets calls on the UN to resume the mission to investigate the explosion in the Olenivka colony. Ukraine is ready to provide materials, but the UN has not yet agreed to consider them.

Turkey's chief ombudsman says Russia ignores requests to visit Ukrainian prisoners of war. Turkey plans to appeal to the UN if it does not receive a response from Russia.

Dmytro Lubinets criticized the ICRC for providing information on visits to prisoners of war in Ukraine and Russia. The ombudsman called on the organization to provide true figures and insist on visiting Ukrainian prisoners of war

During the 54th prisoner exchange since the Russian invasion, 95 Ukrainian defenders were returned from Russian captivity, bringing the total number of released Ukrainians to 3,405.

Russian occupiers killed two Ukrainian teenagers, Tigran Ohanesyan and Mykyta Khanganov, in Berdiansk last year and now refuse to return their bodies to their parents or the Ukrainian side, planning instead to bury them secretly.

At least 22 people were killed in an artillery strike near the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip, endangering civilians and humanitarian workers.

Austria has allocated an additional €10 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine to support civilians affected by the ongoing russian invasion.

Ukraine held an interdepartmental meeting to discuss the need to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in order to strengthen efforts to bring Russian citizens to justice for crimes committed during the war.

French expert on Russia Laurent Vinatier was arrested in Moscow until August 5 on charges of collecting data on the Russian army without registering as a "foreign agent".

The condition of Roman and other Ukrainian prisoners of war causes horror and associations with the darkest pages of human history — the Nazi concentration camps of death.

Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for human rights Dmytro Lubinets appealed to Russian ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova with a demand to open a criminal case against Russian servicemen who abused Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kharkiv direction, citing violations of international humanitarian law.

The prosecutor's office launched an investigation into the fact of ill-treatment and abuse of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops in the Kharkiv direction after a video appeared showing Russian servicemen inflicting bodily injuries, simulating executions and forcing Ukrainian prisoners of war to sing the USSR national anthem.

The Ombudsman appealed to the UN and the Red Cross to document the facts of bullying and ill-treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war by the Russian military in the Kharkiv direction, which violates the Geneva Conventions.

According to Lubinets, all those who returned from captivity Today report that they did not see representatives of the ICRC.

Norway allocates NOK 75 billion (approximately EUR 6. 4 billion as of May 2024) to Ukraine for 2023-2027.

According to the OSCE report, since 2014, Russia has deprived thousands of Ukrainian civilians of their liberty without legal grounds. Human rights activists believe that the actions of the Russian Federation on the territories of Ukraine should be qualified not only as war crimes, but also Crimes Against Humanity.

russia has confirmed that it is holding Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna in captivity. The woman disappeared in the occupied territory of Ukraine in the summer of 2023, and since then, requests from Victoria's relatives to the Russian authorities have remained unanswered.

There are 403 Ukrainian women in Russian captivity, some of whom have been missing since 2014, they are held in inhumane conditions, denied access to the Red Cross, and Russia ignores calls for their release.

russia continues to restrict visits by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Ukrainian prisoners of war, denying them adequate food, water and medical care, and subjecting them to constant torture, in violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Ukraine is looking for mediators to facilitate the return of civilians illegally detained by Russia and hopes for new initiatives from its partners in this regard, said Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.