The Ukrainian Week

28 July	Politics	Who will free the Kremlin’s prisoners? How President Zelenskiy’s choice of staff will affect the cause of political prisoners
24 July	Breaking news	Ukraine reaches agreement on return of captured sailors from Russia 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	Breaking news	U.S. legislators draft sanctions on 24 FSB operatives over 24 Ukrainian POW sailors 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	Breaking news	Four Ukrainian prisoners released by Russia-backed separatists arrive in Minsk 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	Breaking news	Hundreds march in Kyiv for release of over 200 Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia 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	Breaking news	Ukrainian political prisoner Balukh tried in Crimea delivered to Russia's Tver His relocation violates the Geneva Convention
15 March	Breaking news	EU again demands Russia free Ukrainian POW sailors 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	Breaking news	Crimean court refuses to parole Ukrainian activist Russia-occupied Crimea’s Kerchensky city court during its hearing refused to release Volodymyr Balukh on parole
11 January	Breaking news	Russia may free jailed Ukrainian sailors in swap deal 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	Breaking news	Some 37 people arrested for political reasons in occupied Crimea in 2018 Among them are social activists and Ukrainian sailors, prisoners of war
6 January	Society	POWs in a hybrid war How can Ukraine protect the seamen who were taken prisoner by Russia?
21 December, 2018	Breaking news	Wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia pretrial facility recovering Lawyers visiting wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war, seamen Andriy Eider and Andriy Artemenko, in Moscow’s Matrosskaya Tishina facility
17 December, 2018	Politics	Voices crying in the wilderness The meaning of the Sakharov Prize for Oleh Sentsov
5 December, 2018	Breaking news	Ukraine offers to swap captured Ukrainians for Russian prisoners by year-end However, according to Marchuk, the Russian side does not accept such offers
24 May, 2018	Society	Oleh Sentsov’s lawyer: We have seen some reasons for optimism about the ongoing work that might lead to Oleh’s release 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	Kremlin Hostages: The key is not with Putin 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	So many suspects, so little evidence 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	Returning the hostages Freeing the Kremlin's prisoners as our main assignment for the year
19 July, 2016	Society	Double imprisonment Ukrainian prisoners in Crimea are being transferred to Russia, given Russian passports and punished for rejecting them
26 April, 2016	Society	"The expectation of death is worse than death itself" What war captives and kidnapped civilians go through in the occupied territories, and how exchange mechanisms work
26 April, 2016	Society	The great persecution 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	Hostages of the Kremlin 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	A month in captivity in the “Donetsk People’s Republic” 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