Reports

Further allegations of human rights abuses emerge in Donbas The situation remained calm in Kharkiv. The “deputy minister of interior” of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) told the SMM that the “DPR” had found a charred body…

Highlights Continuing shelling hampers access to effectively assess the humanitarian situation in some parts of Eastern Ukraine. UNHCR reports 155,800 internally displaced people, one third of whom are children. The Ministry of Education reports 290 schools are partially or…

KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY, Russian Federation, 20 August 2014 - The Observer Mission (OM) reached full operational capacity and almost completed the replacement of temporary mission members. Observation at the Border Crossing-Points is conducted every day in three eight-hour…

18 August 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is deeply disturbed by today’s alarming reports regarding an attack on a column of internally displaced persons (IDPs) attempting to leave the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. “He urges all…

This report is for media and the general public. In Kharkiv the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrested a group accused of organizing terrorist attacks in the region. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) described the impact of the…

Key Findings Anticipated scope and scale Close to 140,000 people from eastern Ukraine have been displaced, another 16,000 from Crimea. The highest numbers of IDPs are located in eastern Ukraine. Some 188,000 people have reportedly crossed into Russia since…

This report is for media and the general public. The SMM monitored a simultaneous release of prisoners in the Donetsk region. The Kharkiv region “has exhausted” its capacity to absorb more internally displaced persons (IDPs), according to…

Highlights • At least 2,119 (including at least 20 children) killed and 5,043 (including at least 30 children) wounded in east Ukraine as of 13 August; on average, at least 60 persons a day have been killed…

Vsevolod Kritskiy The internal displacement situation in Ukraine is constantly changing due to the fast evolving nature of the conflict in the east. What started as trickle of displaced people moving from Crimea during the spring, by…

The SMM visited Kramatorsk. The SMM visited both international border crossing-points currently operating in the Kharkiv region – Goptivka (36 km north of Kharkiv) and Pletenivka (80 km northeast of Kharkiv). In Goptivka border guards said that…