Rapports

Geneva/Kiev ¦ 9 September 2014 – The crisis in eastern Ukraine is creating a looming health emergency as hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and are living in varying and often exposed conditions as…

By David Tereshchuk* September 9, 2014—As the Ukraine crisis deepens and gets more complex, hundreds of thousands of ordinary civilians have found their lives thrown into upheaval. Whether with the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula in March…

This report is for media and the general public. In Kharkiv, the SMM visited the Ukrainian Army military recruitment centre located in a residential area at Sokolova Street 7 in Kharkiv city, which was attacked at 04:30hrs…

8 September 2014 – The number of people killed in Ukraine has topped 3,000 and could be “significantly higher,” a senior United Nations human rights official said today, as he urgently appealed for a sustainable peace…

In the evening of 5 September 2014, Kyiv received a one-tonne consignment of urgently needed medical supplies for the Ukrainian Red Cross, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. Further aid from…

This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued monitoring, with a focus - in light of arrangements made in Minsk - on events in Donbas. In Shchastya (20 km north of Luhansk), the SMM…

On 6 September at 22:45hrs the SMM heard artillery shelling to the east of Mariupol. The SMM could not ascertain from which direction the shelling was being fired. It lasted until 23:51hrs. During this period the…

Ukraine must stop ongoing abuses and war crimes by pro-Ukrainian volunteer forces (Kyiv) In a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk today, Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty urged the Ukrainian government to stop abuses and…

Observations by the monitoring teams of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) based at the Shchastya checkpoint and Stanitsa Luhanska (Luhansk region); Mariupol and Donetsk city. On 6 September an SMM monitoring team remained stationary…

The SMM saw evidence of an exchange of fire close to the area of Donetsk International Airport, and in Shchastya, 20 km north of Luhansk. A local resident, who lives between two-and-a-half and three kilometres from Donetsk…