The UN is concerned about the escalation of violence and the increase in the number of victims - over 9 thousand people - in the south-east of Ukraine, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Taye-Brooke Zerihoun told members of the Security Council. “Despite a number of positive developments, the situation in Ukraine is alarming.…
Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders said in an interview with the NY Daily News that the Israelis killed “10 innocent” people during the Gaza conflict. Israel reacted negatively to the remark of a participant in the US election race, who is a Jew, accusing Sanders of using...
In less than two years of the war in Donbass, more than 9 thousand people became victims of hostilities, says the report of the monitoring mission of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “In general, for the period from mid-April 2014 to February 15, 2016...
The US and Russia have reportedly reached an agreement on a ceasefire plan in Syria starting Saturday. Officials and diplomats (quoted by Western news outlets on condition of anonymity) report that the ceasefire does not apply to hostilities against the Islamic State ...
The conflict in Ukraine "significantly affected" the lives of 580 children living in the war zone. These figures were named in the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The foundation said in a statement that more than a third of these children need mental health and community support. ...
The International Criminal Court allowed the prosecutor's office to start investigating crimes that were committed in 2008 in South Ossetia and Georgia. The decision states that the crimes were committed on Georgian territory, since the international community does not recognize the independence of the republic. The crimes were committed during the "international military conflict" from July 1 to October 10 ...
This is stated in the response received from the prosecutor's office to Sergei Krivenko, head of the commission on civil-military relations of the Presidential Human Rights Council. The oversight agency, as follows from the document, did not reveal cases of violation of rights and non-observance of social guarantees in relation to the families of military personnel who died in the line of duty. Krivenko, sending requests to the main ...
During the conflict in Donbass, at least 2 thousand people disappeared. This was stated by the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Ukraine, Alain Aeschliman. “According to the information that is available, at least two thousand people have disappeared, and from them...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said that Turkey should pay compensation to Moscow for the downed Su-24 military aircraft, and not insist on the legality of its actions. The Russian front-line bomber Su-24 was shot down by Turkish fighters in late November. The incident led to ...
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov spoke about the incident with the governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, which took place during a meeting of the National Council of Reforms. According to Avakov, in response to accusations of corruption on the part of Saakashvili, he threw water on him in ...