13 January, 2020 | Society | What can Ukraine offer for the release of the remaining prisoners |
29 December, 2019 | Breaking news | Ukraine president says exchange should take place on Sunday but details of the planned swap are scarce |
27 October, 2019 | Politics | What was overlooked during the return of Ukraine’s kidnapped sailors and political hostages from Russia |
26 October, 2019 | Politics | About Ukraine’s prisoners who left jail early and ended up in Moscow |
9 September, 2019 | Politics | How the Russian-Ukrainian exchange of prisoners was in question |
7 September, 2019 | Breaking news | Ukraine and Russia are preparing their first-ever big prisoner exchange since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2014 |
28 July, 2019 | Politics | How President Zelenskiy’s choice of staff will affect the cause of political prisoners |
24 July, 2019 | Breaking news | Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova told Hromadske media outlet in the town of Shchastia during the transfer of Ukrainian prisoners from the occupied Luhansk region |
19 July, 2019 | Breaking news | The U.S. "continues to strongly condemn Russia's dangerous naval assault on the Ukrainian Navy and the illegal detainment 24 Ukrainian sailors," legislators say |
28 June, 2019 | Breaking news | Russia-backed separatists from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region have released four Ukrainian citizens, who have been flown to the Belarusian capital, Minsk |
2 June, 2019 | Breaking news | Several hundred people marched on June 1 in downtown Kyiv to draw attention to more than 200 Ukrainians who have been illegally imprisoned in Russia, Russian-occupied Crimea and Russian-controlled parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts |
26 March, 2019 | Breaking news | His relocation violates the Geneva Convention |
15 March, 2019 | Breaking news | The EU demands that Russia release Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) sailors who were attacked and captured in the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018, according to a press release prepared in connection with the imposition of sanctions against eight Russians because of these events |
27 January, 2019 | Breaking news | Russia-occupied Crimea’s Kerchensky city court during its hearing refused to release Volodymyr Balukh on parole |
11 January, 2019 | Breaking news | Russia may hand over 24 Ukrainian navy sailors seized off the coast of Crimea as part of a prisoner swap deal with Ukraine later this year, the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper cited a highly-placed Russian diplomatic source |
7 January, 2019 | Breaking news | Among them are social activists and Ukrainian sailors, prisoners of war |
6 January, 2019 | Society | How can Ukraine protect the seamen who were taken prisoner by Russia? |
21 December, 2018 | Breaking news | Lawyers visiting wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war, seamen Andriy Eider and Andriy Artemenko, in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina facility |
17 December, 2018 | Politics | The meaning of the Sakharov Prize for Oleh Sentsov |
5 December, 2018 | Breaking news | However, according to Marchuk, the Russian side does not accept such offers |
24 May, 2018 | Society | On May 16, Ukrainian filmmaker currently jailed in Russia as a political prisoner went on a hunger strike. In a public letter he wrote that he would only stop the strike if all 64 Ukrainian prisoners jailed in Russia for politically-motivated grounds are released |
23 January, 2018 | Society | For Ukrainians incarcerated in the occupied territories and in the Russian Federation itself, things could get much worse in 2018. Only serious international pressure is likely to make Moscow release these political prisoners |
10 July, 2017 | Society | On June 14, it was a year since the last exchange of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia took place. Nothing has happened in all that time to make a swap more likely |
31 January, 2017 | Society | Freeing the Kremlin's prisoners as our main assignment for the year |
19 July, 2016 | Society | Ukrainian prisoners in Crimea are being transferred to Russia, given Russian passports and punished for rejecting them |
26 April, 2016 | Society | What war captives and kidnapped civilians go through in the occupied territories, and how exchange mechanisms work |
26 April, 2016 | Society | 25 Ukrainians are held in captivity by the Russians, accused of committing serious crimes. Yet international rights organizations still have not recognized them as political prisoners |
13 August, 2015 | Society | President Poroshenko says there are 30 Ukrainian citizens currently being illegally held in Russia. Human rights advocates that they know about the situation with 11, most of whom the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has yet to provide with lawyers |
16 October, 2014 | Society | Ruslan Petrenko (not his real name) from a small town near Donetsk was a pro-Ukrainian activist. This got him in trouble: he was taken hostage by the “DNR” terrorists and spent more than a month in captivity |