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Survival or crime: how Ukraine punishes collaborationism
Publications - 30 July 2024

Survival or crime: how Ukraine punishes collaborationism

The analytical report is aimed at researching trends in the practice of considering cases on collaborative activity in Ukraine and analysing the relevant case law, studying developments in amending criminal legislation, as well as communication and public perception of responsibility for collaborations and the demand for justice, with the aim of further improving legislation on […]

“85% of men will pass through this detention centre”: analysis of the testimonies of those detained in the district police department during the occupation of Kupiansk
Publications - 17 January 2024

“85% of men will pass through this detention centre”: analysis of the testimonies of those detained in the district police department during the occupation of Kupiansk

The purpose of this report is a detailed study of the illegal detention of civilians in the temporary detention centre of the Kupiansk district police department. The document singles out the categories of persons who were subjected to illegal detention, analyzes the circumstances and grounds of such detention, the conditions of stay in the illegal […]

Collaborationism and abetting the aggressor state: practice of legislative application and prospects for improvement
Publications - 30 October 2023

Collaborationism and abetting the aggressor state: practice of legislative application and prospects for improvement

This analytical report seeks to identify the main trends and problems in the application of Articles 111-1 (“Collaborationism”) and 111-2 (“Abetting the aggressor state”) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine through the analysis of judicial practice, as well as the results of in-depth interviews with representatives of law enforcement agencies (National Police of Ukraine, State […]

Mechanisms (ways) for returning Ukrainians deported to the territory of the Russian Federation
Publications - 09 October 2023

Mechanisms (ways) for returning Ukrainians deported to the territory of the Russian Federation

Since the beginning of the large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, Ukraine 5AM Coalition has been documenting the facts of international crimes committed by the forces of the aggressor country, including the deportation of Ukrainian citizens to the territory of the Russian Federation. In the report presented by the Coalition in January 2023, the deportation of […]

Torture chamber at school: an analysis of the testimonies of detainees in the village of Bilyayivka, Kherson region
Publications - 31 August 2023

Torture chamber at school: an analysis of the testimonies of detainees in the village of Bilyayivka, Kherson region

The purpose of this analysis is a detailed study of the illegal detention of civilians in the premises of the Biliaivsky educational complex «Secondary school – preschool educational institution (nursery–kindergarten) of I–III degrees’’ during the occupation of the village of Bilyayivka by the Russian Armed Forces of the Novooleksandrivka rural community of the Beryslav district […]

“Women’s cells” of Kherson torture chamber: analytical report based on the testimonies of detainees
Publications - 13 July 2023

“Women’s cells” of Kherson torture chamber: analytical report based on the testimonies of detainees

The report analyses all stages of the confinement of women by representatives of the Russian Federation in Temporary detention center (TDC) No. 1 of the Main Department of the National Police in Kherson Region, located at 3 Teploenerhetykiv Street, during the occupation of the city of Kherson, in particular, the circumstances and reasons for detention, […]

Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of active citizens during the full-scale armed aggression by Russia against Ukraine
Publications - 04 July 2023

Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of active citizens during the full-scale armed aggression by Russia against Ukraine

This report provides data on enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of active citizens, including public activists, volunteers, journalists, local government officials and employees, educators, religious figures, cultural figures, as well as relatives of active citizens; these disappearances and arbitrary detentions took place on the territory of nine regions of Ukraine, which were or remain occupied […]

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
Publications - 16 January 2023

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 […]

Forced conscription of Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territory of Ukraine by the Russian Federation: facts and legal classification
Publications - 12 January 2023

Forced conscription of Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territory of Ukraine by the Russian Federation: facts and legal classification

One of the tasks of Ukraine 5AM Coalition is to document the consequences of the large-scale aggression of the Russian Federation after 24 February 2022. The problem of forced conscription of Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territory (TOT) is one of the widespread and massive war crimes committed during the Russian aggression against Ukraine. […]

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