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.
According to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, nearly 1,700 civilians are being held in Russian detention facilities, with about 900 of them confirmed by the ICRC and about 14,000 civilians officially listed as missing.
So far, 292 cases of sexual violence by russians against Ukrainians have been recorded. The occupiers committed most crimes in Kherson, Donetsk, Kyiv and Kharkiv regions
The Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution calling on the international community to intensify efforts to release and return to Ukraine all captured and illegally detained Ukrainian citizens, especially Ukrainian journalists.
99 fallen Ukrainian defenders, including 77 from Donetsk, 20 from Zaporizhzhia and 2 from Kharkiv sectors, were returned to Ukraine through repatriation efforts involving various Ukrainian agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations calls on the Security Council to stop the execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russia as a matter of priority.
Several Russian units, including the 328th Regiment of the 104th Division of the Russian Armed Forces and the 345th Regiment of the same division, may have been involved in the shooting of unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war near Krynky in Kherson region.
Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets appealed to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding another violation of international humanitarian law by the russian army, involving the shooting of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
With the assistance of various agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross, Ukraine returned the bodies of 121 fallen defenders.
Dmytro Lubinets met with his Turkish counterpart, Şeref Malkoç, to discuss the protection of the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war, with the participation of about 800 people, including relatives of detainees and released Ukrainians, who shared their experiences of torture and violations in russian captivity.
Another repatriation event took place, as a result of which 100 fallen Ukrainian defenders were returned to Ukraine.
Russian soldiers shot Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered in the Bakhmut district, killing at least seven.
In the Bakhmut sector, the occupiers shot nine Ukrainian servicemen, according to footage published by the DeepState Telegram channel.
The UN calls on the U. S. to continue funding humanitarian organizations to support refugees in Ukraine.
The Russian military shot Ukrainian prisoners of war near the village of Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia region, on February 18.
The pre-trial investigation into the shooting of Ukrainian prisoners of war in Avdiivka by the Russian occupiers continues to work to establish the exact number of victims and identify the perpetrators.
The occupiers shot Ukrainian prisoners of war in Avdiivka, violating international law. Dmytro Lubinets appealed to the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross.