Reports

HIGHLIGHTS Situation overview: An assessment mission to Donetsk conducted by UNHCR between 19-22 February reconfirmed huge humanitarian needs. Scale-up of humanitarian presence in the east is urgently required. People are living in basements, bomb shelters or under…

The ongoing conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is also severely affecting the agriculture sector. Many farming enterprises are reported to have lost a part of their winter wheat harvest around June-July 2014. Spring crops…

Kiev, Ukraine – To better respond to the growing need to record human rights violations in the east of Ukraine, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting a number of civic human rights monitors and investigators…

Death toll in eastern Ukraine crosses 6,000, Zeid says, as UN releases new report GENEVA (2 March 2015) – The estimated number of people killed in eastern Ukraine since April 2014 has now passed the 6,000* mark,…

SC/11803 7395th Meeting (AM) Security Council Strong United Nations Support Urged for Mission Whose Duties ‘Come Close’ to Those of Peacekeeping There had been a significant reduction of hostilities in Ukraine, another release of detainees, and the beginning of the…

25/02/2015 By Sarah Gillam While the world's spotlight falls on the politics and fighting in eastern Ukraine, the human misery of war is evident in dormitories, disused huts and railway carriages, unseen and unheard, in pinewoods, towns and…

Kyiv. 25 February 2015 The Government of Ukraine and the European Union, United Nations and the World Bank Group presented the findings of an eastern Ukraine Recovery and Peacebuilding Assessment (RPA) report. The report provides the baseline…

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the Implementation of the Minsk agreements”. The SMM, based on its monitoring – which was restricted by third parties and security considerations – noted that…

Background Due to ongoing instability and conflict in Ukraine since April 2014, areas primarily in the eastern part of the country have experienced a deteriorating humanitarian situation. Heavy shelling and armed conflict has led to significant displacement…

Ukraine: One year after EuroMaydan protests, justice denied for victims of violence A deeply imbedded culture of impunity, lack of expertise and in some cases, deliberate obstruction, are denying justice to the hundreds of victims of police…