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U.N. General Assembly demands Russia return 20,000 deported Ukrainian children as reports show transfers to North Korea
News - 04 December 2025

U.N. General Assembly demands Russia return 20,000 deported Ukrainian children as reports show transfers to North Korea

Fifty-seven states abstained from voting, including China, India, Brazil, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Egypt, Qatar, and Pakistan

Сourt in Kyiv region has acquitted a Russian serviceman for the first time after he was charged in absentia with looting
News - 06 November 2025

Сourt in Kyiv region has acquitted a Russian serviceman for the first time after he was charged in absentia with looting

The victim in the Bucha court case managed to leave her home on February 26 and only learned of the robbery in April upon her return

Unknown actors impersonate ZMINA Human Rights Centre to target civil society organizations: ZMINA calls on recipients to trust only @zmina.ua domain
News - 09 October 2025

Unknown actors impersonate ZMINA Human Rights Centre to target civil society organizations: ZMINA calls on recipients to trust only @zmina.ua domain

ZMINA has also asked anyone who receives such emails to report them to the organization at: info@zmina.ua

You sit like a potted plant: you may be watered, or you may not, and then you will wither – journalist Dmytro Khyliuk. A story of captivity and freedom
Articles - 06 October 2025

You sit like a potted plant: you may be watered, or you may not, and then you will wither – journalist Dmytro Khyliuk. A story of captivity and freedom

ZMINA met with Dmytro Khyliuk at the hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. She spoke with him about the first days of the occupation of the Kyiv region, the conditions of detention for Ukrainians in Russian colonies, what helped him maintain his psychological resilience in captivity, and what he plans to do in the future

Russia’s attacks extend beyond Ukraine and threaten all of Europe — PACE resolution
News - 02 October 2025

Russia’s attacks extend beyond Ukraine and threaten all of Europe — PACE resolution

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a new resolution on Russian aggression. According to the document, Russia's attacks go beyond Ukraine and threaten all of Europe, and the Ukrainian state has the sovereign right to membership in any international organizations, including NATO

Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia kills teen, wounds two children and four adults
News - 17 August 2025

Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia kills teen, wounds two children and four adults

The family's home was destroyed in the attack. Houses located nearby were also damaged

While missiles hit Kyiv, the OSCE throws itself a birthday party
Columns - 04 August 2025

While missiles hit Kyiv, the OSCE throws itself a birthday party

Today, one OSCE member state – Russia, assisted by another member, Belarus – has systematically violated every single Helsinki principle

Ukrainian civilians and militaries killed in Russian ballistic missile attack on Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia Oblast
News - 01 July 2025

Ukrainian civilians and militaries killed in Russian ballistic missile attack on Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

The Russian attack destroyed a community arts center, two shops and damaged homes

Ukrainians in Belarusian prisons: persecution, repression and sentences
Articles - 24 March 2025

Ukrainians in Belarusian prisons: persecution, repression and sentences

In this article, we briefly tell the stories of the detention and imprisonment of 15 Ukrainian citizens in Belarus

Russia сontinues illegal child deportations despite ICC arrest warrants – Almenda’s report
News - 19 November 2024

Russia сontinues illegal child deportations despite ICC arrest warrants – Almenda’s report

Despite International Criminal Court arrest warrants issued in March 2023 against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova for child deportations, Russia continues its practices. In 2024, the scale of unlawful child transfers has increased, with camp programs explicitly aimed at destroying Ukrainian children's national identity, human rights advocates emphasise

Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace
Columns - 30 October 2024

Ukraine rejects “pacifying the aggressor” as a path to peace

Refat Chubarov urged continued use of the Ukrainian Peace Formula to increase political and diplomatic pressure on dictator Putin and his supporters

Wagner Group mercenaries may be involved in the militarization of Ukrainian teenagers in Belarus
Articles - 03 July 2024

Wagner Group mercenaries may be involved in the militarization of Ukrainian teenagers in Belarus

ZMINA has learned that mercenaries from the private military company “Wagner Group” conducted training in some of the military camps where Ukrainian teenagers were brought

Re-education under the guise of recovery: how Belarus helps Russia to take Ukrainian children from the occupied territories
Articles - 10 April 2024

Re-education under the guise of recovery: how Belarus helps Russia to take Ukrainian children from the occupied territories

About who illegally is taking children from the occupied territories and how they are trying to re-educate them in Belarus, read the article

Parliamentarians from 51 countries reaffirmed Ukraine’s territorial integrity: Key moments from the Second Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimean Platform
News - 06 November 2023

Parliamentarians from 51 countries reaffirmed Ukraine’s territorial integrity: Key moments from the Second Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimean Platform

At the end of the plenary session, a Joint Declaration was signed by the participants of the summit, affirming the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders, including Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as assurance of the sovereignty of Ukraine as necessary preconditions for ending the war and establishing lasting peace in the region

Ukraine must join NATO: eliminating security grey areas in Europe
Columns - 27 October 2023

Ukraine must join NATO: eliminating security grey areas in Europe

We must stand with Ukraine until its total victory. That must be very clear to everyone: no semi-peace or other kind of settlements but a victory with regained occupied territories with Zelensky's Peace Formula.

Activists identified the route by which children from the occupied Ukrainian territories are deported to Belarus
News - 29 August 2023

Activists identified the route by which children from the occupied Ukrainian territories are deported to Belarus

The group presented its findings in a research paper released in early August 2023

In Crimea a new criminal case was opened against Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh
News - 29 August 2017

In Crimea a new criminal case was opened against Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh

Head of the Rozdolnensky isolator filed a complaint

In ORDLO militants abducted a businessman from Krasnodon – KHPG
News - 20 July 2017

In ORDLO militants abducted a businessman from Krasnodon – KHPG

The man was abducted on June 30 near the parking lot of the "Prometheus" shopping center in Luhansk