Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

During the week of July 1-7, another 569,397 Ukrainians updated their military records through the Reserve+ application, territorial recruitment centers (TCCs) or assembly points (APs), bringing the total number of updates to almost 3. 2 million as of July 7, 2024.

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has clarified how to check whether enforcement proceedings have been opened against a person who evades military registration.

First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska opened the exhibition "Treasures of Crimea. The Return" exhibition in Kyiv, featuring a collection of Scythian gold that Ukraine fought with russia for almost a decade to get back from the Netherlands.

Forensic experts have concluded that the damage caused by Russian aggression in Ukraine exceeds UAH 22 billion, which has launched a large-scale effort to prove Russian crimes in international courts.

From now on, applicants from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine will be interviewed in only three subjects when applying to higher education institutions, according to the decision of the Ministry of Education following an appeal from the Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets.

The Ministry of Justice has identified about 300 people with Russian assets in Ukraine. It has already collected about UAH 830 million of net funds only from individuals who have been sanctioned.

For Ukrainians living in the temporarily occupied territories, there are special conditions that provide for the possibility of not taking a single entrance test and a single entrance exam for specialties.

The Ministry of internal affairs named seven possible reasons for refusing to re-register a car through the Diya portal, including declaring the vehicle wanted, losing the registration certificate, opening enforcement proceedings against the seller, encumbrances on the alienation of property, and so on.

The Verkhovna Rada has adopted a bill that exempts political parties from liability for failure to submit reports or provide false information to the NACP regarding their local organizations located in war zones.

Ukraine has banned the Nash Krai political party for participating in subversive activities against Ukraine, including spreading anti-Ukrainian propaganda, calling for the violent overthrow of the constitutional order, and supporting Russian military aggression.

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.

The Ministry of Agrarian Policy is finalizing land reform projects in Ukraine, including the creation of a register with information on contaminated land plots and the launch of monitoring systems for the agricultural land market and land relations to improve public control and management decision-making.

The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court granted the claim of the Ministry of justice to recover assets worth more than UAH 120 million from collaborator Yevhen Balytsky, including planes, apartments, cars and companies in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhia region.

Since 2022, Conflict Armament Research (CAR) has published thirteen public reports outlining studies of various types of weapons used by Russia in Ukraine, including russian, Iranian and North Korean weapons systems.

The state Bureau of Investigation, together with the SBU, the Ministry of Justice, the Kiev Research Institute of forensic examinations, the state financial monitoring service of Ukraine and the NBU, established a link between Sia Royal Pay Europe and the Russian bookmaker 1xBet.

The Ministry of Justice does not rule out that later Ukraine will build a fourth camp for russian prisoners of war, since the existing camps will not accommodate russian prisoners.

Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets sent a team of the National Preventive Mechanism to a correctional colony in the Poltava region after receiving information about torture and bullying of prisoners there.

Ukraine has nationalized the large fishing trawler Bukhta Sokolovskaya, owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Alexander Verkhovsky.

The Verkhovna Rada passed bills aimed at reforming the penitentiary system, including allowing prisoners sentenced to restriction of liberty to work under civil law contracts and increasing the number of hours that prisoners can work to improve living conditions in colonies.

The Supreme Anti-Corruption Court filed a lawsuit to recover the assets of six enterprises, including two pipe plants, in connection with the fact that their Russian co-owners were sanctioned for the supply of polymers to the Russian military-industrial complex.

More than 3,000 convicts have already applied for military service in Ukraine, the deputy minister of Justice said. The department understood that there would be those who wanted to, but the law would limit one or another category, so it is impossible to say that everyone would fall on parole and sign a contract.

The High Anti-Corruption Court has confiscated two An-148-100E passenger aircraft from the Russian company Ilyushin Finance Co, a part of the Rostec state corporation responsible for leasing and servicing Russian-made aircraft, for its involvement in logistical support of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.

Ukraine's Minister of Justice Denys Malyuska acknowledged that the Constitution needs to be improved, but argues that this should not happen during the ongoing war.

President Zelenskiy will not lose his legitimacy after May 21, as his powers will last until the next president is elected, despite the imperfections in the Constitution regarding wartime provisions, Justice Minister Denys Malyuska said.

On June 12, the European Court of Human Rights will hold oral hearings in the interstate case Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia regarding human rights violations in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions since 2014 and during Russia's full-scale invasion.

Verifying the ownership of real estate is an important prerequisite for entering into a sale and purchase agreement. Before entering into a sale and purchase agreement for real estate on the secondary market, it is necessary to verify the documents confirming the ownership.

In April, Ukraine did not suspend human rights protection, but partially lifted the restrictions that had been applied earlier, according to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.

In April 2024, Ukraine did not suspend the protection of rights, but withdrew reservations on the restriction of a certain set of rights, clarifying existing restrictions and reducing them, within the framework of its international obligations.

Notary assistants in Kyiv certified over 2,000 documents using his electronic digital signature while he was abroad.

During martial law, Ukraine's military leadership has the right to restrict citizens' freedom of movement, inspect belongings, and compulsorily seize private or communal property for state needs under martial law, according to an updated list of rights and freedoms.