Reports

This report is provided for media and general public. Fighting in parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions continued. The MH17 investigative team was unable to access the crash site owing to fighting in the area. The mayor…

Highlights UNICEF and the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine are jointly developing a school-based mine awareness education campaign to be launched from 1 September. The urgency for the campaign was underscored by 20 July mine…

Earlier this year, volunteers working with Ukrainian Red Cross Society faced risk in the service of those in need. In February 2014 and throughout the following months, Red Cross volunteers responded to violence during protests at Maidan…

Intense fighting in eastern Ukraine “extremely alarming”, says Pillay, as UN releases new report GENEVA (28 July 2014) - A total breakdown of law and order and a reign of fear and terror have been inflicted by…

Office of the Vice President For Immediate Release July 28, 2014 Vice President Joe Biden spoke today with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk about Ukraine’s economic reforms, the situation in the east, the investigation into the MH-17 tragedy,…

LVIV, Ukraine, 25 July 2014 – UNICEF Ukraine today released the latest in UNICEF’s OneMinutesJr video series, featuring stories by 14 internally displaced children 6 to 17 years old from Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The children,…

Highlights All sides to the conflict are called upon to respect international humanitarian law. Fatalities surpass 1,000 and humanitarian needs are on the rise. Military activities intensifying in Donetsk and Luhansk sub-urban and urban areas. Continuing reports of displacement from…

VIENNA, 25 July 2014 – OSCE Representative of Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today demanded the immediate release of journalists who were reported missing in eastern Ukraine. “I am seriously concerned about the continuing abduction and…

The human remains of more victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash were flown to the Netherlands. Protests against military mobilisation continued in western Ukraine. The Prosecutor’s Office in Kharkiv city informed the SMM that 10 anti-Maidan activists…

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…