civilians

Russians injured 22 civilians in a missile attack on the City of Poltava
News - 17 June 2024

Russians injured 22 civilians in a missile attack on the City of Poltava

According to early reports, Russians struck the civilian infrastructure with a Kh-59 cruise missile. Thereby, civilians have been injured. The Poltava Oblast Prosecutor’s Office clarified that 22 people required medical attention

Mariupol resident, Mariana Checheliuk’s health deteriorated significantly due to captivity
News - 17 January 2024

Mariupol resident, Mariana Checheliuk’s health deteriorated significantly due to captivity

Mariana Checheliuk, a 24-year-old police officer from Mariupol, has suffered a significant deterioration in her health and immune system due to her extended stay in captivity. In August 2023, she was transferred from a prison in Taganrog to Mariupol, where she is still being held. Mariana’s mother, Natalia Checheliuk, told ZMINA about this. According to […]

A Russian missile strike killed 11 people, including five children, in Donetsk Oblast while Republicans in the US Congress blocked military aid to Ukraine
News - 06 January 2024

A Russian missile strike killed 11 people, including five children, in Donetsk Oblast while Republicans in the US Congress blocked military aid to Ukraine

S-300 missiles hit the town of Pokrovsk in Ukrainian-held territory in Donetsk region

Torture in the occupied territories: global consequences of terror
Columns - 22 December 2023

Torture in the occupied territories: global consequences of terror

ZMINA Human Rights Center has been documenting war crimes committed by representatives of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine. In particular, it interviews victims of arbitrary detention, torture, and ill-treatment. Unfortunately, the practice of committing these crimes remains widespread and systemic. On December 7, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy […]

One day with volunteers in the destroyed Vuhledar, Donetsk region
Articles - 06 November 2023

One day with volunteers in the destroyed Vuhledar, Donetsk region

The ZMINA journalist, together with volunteers Andriy and Roman from the Lion's Heart military volunteer association, managed to get to Vuhledar, which was burned by Russian shelling, and saw with her own eyes how this point of invincibility was being equipped

Over 1300 Ukrainian children have been evacuated abroad for treatment since Russia’s war
News - 13 October 2023

Over 1300 Ukrainian children have been evacuated abroad for treatment since Russia’s war

Ukrainian children and adults with complex mine-blast wounds, burn injuries, oncological pathology, and diseases requiring complex, specialized treatment can be evacuated for treatment in foreign clinics

Families of POWs and missing persons unite to oversee the work of state bodies in Ukraine
News - 22 August 2023

Families of POWs and missing persons unite to oversee the work of state bodies in Ukraine

The families of prisoners of war (POWs) and missing persons believe that Ukraine’s government’s plan to transfer the Commissioner for Missing Persons functions to three different agencies will significantly impair the families’ ability to communicate directly with the authorities and search for their loved ones. Therefore, they plan to create an association of civil society […]

Four stories of missing persons in the occupied territories of Ukraine
Articles - 21 August 2023

Four stories of missing persons in the occupied territories of Ukraine

ZMINA retells four stories about the abduction and disappearance of Mykola Harbar, a hunter; Vasyl, a handyman; Volodymyr Khorolsky, a territorial defense volunteer; and Artur Baranets, a policeman

Almost 80% of Ukrainian refugees and IDPs plan to return home, UN study
News - 21 August 2023

Almost 80% of Ukrainian refugees and IDPs plan to return home, UN study

76% of refugees and 82% of internally displaced Ukrainians plan to return home whenever possible. At the same time, about 15% of both refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) say they want to do so within the next three months. Karen Whiting, Deputy Representative of the UN Refugee Agency in Ukraine, shared in the podcast […]

Older people and some families with children refuse to leave the evacuation areas in Kharkiv region
News - 21 August 2023

Older people and some families with children refuse to leave the evacuation areas in Kharkiv region

The head of the Kupyansk city military administration emphasized that the evacuation is not mandatory, so those who do not want to leave can refuse by writing a statement

Almost 16% of respondents across Ukraine said they had witnessed Russian war crimes
News - 01 August 2023

Almost 16% of respondents across Ukraine said they had witnessed Russian war crimes

Almost 16% of Ukrainians across the country said they had witnessed Russian war crimes. These are the findings of a study conducted by the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV) in cooperation with the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Center for Political Sociology. The sociologists interviewed 2001 respondents aged 18 and older, and […]

A resident of Nova Kakhovka, abducted three times, was found in one of the Simferopol detention centers
News - 26 July 2023

A resident of Nova Kakhovka, abducted three times, was found in one of the Simferopol detention centers

Russian occupying forces tortured the man and tried to find out whether Leonid Adolfovych Kondratsky was the great-grandson of Adolf Hitler

Almost 80% of Ukrainians have relatives or friends wounded or killed due to Russia’s war
News - 04 July 2023

Almost 80% of Ukrainians have relatives or friends wounded or killed due to Russia’s war

The vast majority of Ukrainians – 78% – have close relatives or friends who have been injured or killed by the Russian invasion, according to the results of a sociological survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on May 26-June 5, 2023. The overwhelming majority of the population has close relatives or […]

126 Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity, most of them civilians
News - 04 July 2023

126 Ukrainian women are in Russian captivity, most of them civilians

As of the end of June 2023, 126 women are still in Russian captivity. This news was reported by the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories and the National Information Bureau. “According to the National Information Bureau, as of the end of June 2023, 126 women are in Russian captivity. Of these, 46 […]

A witness account of abduction and torture in Hornostaivka village, Kherson region
Articles - 26 June 2023

A witness account of abduction and torture in Hornostaivka village, Kherson region

Read a full witness testimony of Serhii, a Kherson region resident, about his abduction and torture experience. Due to safety concerns, ZMINA changed the name of the torture survivor

News - 31 January 2017

Residential areas of Avdiivka are under shelling. Government is preparing evacuation

There are casualties among the civilian population and destruction in Avdiivka

Paralympic Games kick off in Rio de Janeiro. Stories of Ukrainian athletes
News - 07 September 2016

Paralympic Games kick off in Rio de Janeiro. Stories of Ukrainian athletes

Ukrainian team in Rio will be most numerous in its history – 172 athletes