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Avdiyivka city, Donetsk region
Avdiyivka was in the zone of active hostilities from the summer of 2014 to February 2015. During this time, seven shells fell on the territory of Avdiyivka Central City hospital. Even now there are numerous tubes left after the multiple rocket launcher systems “Grad” fell on the territory of the hospital. As representatives of the LRHRC "Alternative" found out, all glasses were smashed out in the traumatology department in August 2014.
The shell flew through the window into the ward and, as a result, the nurse was injured – her finger was torn off. A fragment of the projectile hit the stomach of the who was in the operation ward causing her death.
Complete glazing of the main hospital building was carried out with the funds of the Avdiyivka coke and chemicals plant. But in October 2015, after bombardments recurred, the hospital again was left without window glass. The windows were clogged with plywood and polyethylene.
The hospital consists of two buildings connected by a transition: the main five-story and the other, smaller one. As a result of significant damage caused to the main building right before the autumn-winter period, the hospital administration and city authorities decided to transfer the Central Hospital to the smaller building, in which the hospital operates till now.
In January 2015, the shells fell into the building of the infectious disease department. Shrapnel damaged the roof (now the refurbishment is planned), nutrition unit, morgue and central sterilization department.
In the winter of 2014–2015, there were no lights, water and electricity in the city. Employees of the city administration of the Ministry of Emergency Situations brought technical water to the hospital, whereas drinking water was fetched from wells on the premises of local houses.
Before the control of the Ukrainian authorities was restored over the city at the end of July 2014, it had been controlled by armed formations of the so-called "DPR" for several weeks. During this period, the national treasury departments and the tax inspection did not work, so the hospital staff did not receive wages for three months.
At the present moment, the building of the hospital was included in the list of objects that are subject to prior restoration in Donetsk region, design and budget documentation is being prepared. To help the Ukrainian military on the territory of the institution, a stabilization point was opened where military doctors work together with civilian doctors.
Among the problems voiced by respondents, low availability of medical personnel has an important place: the hospital is staffed with doctors by 30 %, and with other medical personnel by 65 %. For a qualitative and timely inspection, the hospital requires a mobile X-ray machine.
The publication was written in the frame of work of the Coalition "Justice for Peace in Donbass" on the project "The usage of methods and means of warfare prohibited by international law against civilian health facilities during an armed conflict in the east of Ukraine", carried out with the support of the International "Renaissance" Foundation.
Photo: Suspilne On September 15, human rights activists held campaigned near the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine requesting adopton of the...
Photo: Suspilne
On September 15, human rights activists held campaigned near the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine requesting adopton of the bill No. 2698 "On amendments to certain legislative acts of Ukraine concerning the implementation of international criminal and humanitarian law."
The adoption of this draft law would harmonize Ukrainian criminal legislation with the norms of international criminal and humanitarian law. Ukrainian law enforcement officers would be able to correctly qualify crimes committed during the war in the East of Ukraine. The bill would make it impossible to amnesty people who have committed war crimes. Also, these cases cannot simply be closed by the statute of limitations.
The bill on war criminals No. 2689 was registered in the Verkhovna Rada in December 2019.
Former prisoners of war and representatives of public organizations took part in the action. Center for Civil Liberties, the Izolyatsia art fund and the Arts & Rights project were the organizers of the event.
53% of Ukrainians believe that only those persons whose guilt in war and other serious crimes will be proven in court should be pros...
53% of Ukrainians believe that only those persons whose guilt in war and other serious crimes will be proven in court should be prosecuted for cooperation with the authorities of the so-called “L/DPR.” This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Ukraine and in cooperation with the ZMINA Center for Human Rights.
In the course of the poll, Ukrainians were asked who should be prosecuted for cooperation with the authorities of the so-called “DPR” / “LPR”.
Half of the respondents, namely 53%, believe that it should be only those whose guilt in war and other serious crimes will be proven in court.
22% say that everyone who held leadership positions in the so-called “DPR” / “LPR” should be prosecuted .
7% believe that all residents of the occupied territories who somehow cooperated with the local authorities.
Another 3% believe that no one should be responsible.
Recently, on September, 4 human rights defenders organized a discussion in Pokrovsk "Are we ready for reconciliation?"
More than 100 mercenaries from more than 30 countries are fighting on the side of illegal armed groups in Donbass. Deputy Prosecutor...
More than 100 mercenaries from more than 30 countries are fighting on the side of illegal armed groups in Donbass. Deputy Prosecutor General Gunduz Mammadov mentioned this in an interview for Radio Liberty.
“The Office of the Prosecutor General registered criminal proceedings on the facts of the participation of more than 100 foreign citizens in the illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation in the armed conflict in Donbas against Ukraine. The geography of the countries of origin of mercenaries is very diverse and comprises more than 30 states, including France, the Czech Republic and even Chile. The largest number of them are from Spain and Serbia - 27 people, Moldova - 26, France - 20,” - said Mammadov.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, citizens of Bulgaria, Armenia, Italy, Spain, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, the Netherlands, Germany, and others, participated in the illegal armed groups in Donbas as well.
Mercenraies took part in various units, in particular, the so-called 14th territorial defense battalion "Prizrak", 11th separate motorized rifle regiment "Vostok", 7th separate motorized rifle brigade "Chistyakovskaya", 1st separate motorized rifle brigade "Slavyanskaya", separate reconnaissance battalion "Sparta," a separate assault battalion" Somalia ", illegal armed formations" Rusichi "," Wolf`s Hundred "," Bryanka USSR "and others.
Previously, in Kazakhstan, Yevgenii Shcherbak was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for mercenarism as part of the illegal armed formation in Donbas after the Russian Federation refused to grant him asylum.
The Secretariat of the Coalition «Justice for Peace in Donbas»
