Alina Pavliuk
“Exchanges” of civilians. What are the current and potential risks of existing procedures?
The issue of returning Ukrainian civilians unlawfully detained by the Russian Federation has existed since the beginning of the armed aggression against Ukraine in 2014 and has significantly intensified following the full-scale invasion in 2022. According to the Media Initiative for Human Rights, as of November 2025, at least 2,436 Ukrainian civilians are being held […]
Enforced disappearances: national practice v. international standards
The issue of enforced disappearances has gained new urgency for Ukraine due to the ongoing armed conflict on its territory. Since 2014, with the occupation of the Crimean peninsula and the armed conflict within certain districts in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukrainian law enforcement agencies have recorded cases of disappearances and illegal detentions of […]
Deportation of Ukrainian citizens from the territory of active military operations or from the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine to the territory of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus
On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale aggression against Ukraine. Already from early March 2022, information began to arrive about the forcible transfer of Ukrainian citizens to the territories that had been occupied before 24 February 2022, and later – about their deportation to the territory of the Russian Federation and the […]
