Reports

Stop Use of Grads in Populated Areas (Donetsk, July 25, 2014) – Unguided Grad rockets launched apparently by Ukrainian government forces and pro-government militias have killed at least 16 civilians and wounded many more in insurgent-controlled areas…

This update is provided for media and general public. The SMM facilitated access of Malaysian experts to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and attended a mourning ceremony at Kharkiv’s international airport. Fighting in parts…

(Berlin) – Ukrainian authorities have not provided adequate protection and assistance to tens of thousands of Ukrainians who were forced to flee their homes, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to President Petro Poroshenko.…

This update is provided for media and general public. CORRECTION: Four paragraphs omitted in original release. Dutch forensics experts – accompanying the SMM – assessed the storage facilities for bodies on board the train in Torez railway station…

Highlights The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine addressed the international community, including UNICEF in Ukraine, informing about a threat of attempts by separatists to transfer children from state residential care institutions from Ukraine to the Russian…

The situation in the central-southern part of the Luhansk region and the central part of the Donetsk region remained volatile. Other parts of the country remained calm. In Luhansk, the SMM was told by a source that…

7 July 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the “continued, unlawful” acts of armed fighters in Ukraine after reports that they are regrouping in eastern provinces, and urged Ukrainian authorities to exercise maximum restraint…

GENEVA (4 July 2014) – Following the end of the ceasefire on 30 June in Ukraine, the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has reported numerous cases of death of people in Donetsk and Luhansk…

KYIV, 1 July 2014 –The results of a psychosocial assessment of children in Donetsk oblast in Eastern Ukraine are deeply troubling, according to UNICEF and indicate that about half of all children aged 7-18 have been…

Highlights · A ten-month-old baby was killed by shrapnel from a grenade launcher in Antratsyt town, Luhansk oblast on June 24. · In total 5 deaths of children due to the armed conflict have been reported since the…