War

After the deoccupation of Ukrainian territories in Kherson region, the police found seven torture chambers and eight places where people deprived of liberty had been held. That’s according to acting chief of the Kherson Region PD communications team Andriy Kovany, who spoke at a briefing at the Ukraine - Ukrinform Media Center. "Currently, seven torture chambers and eight places of deprivation of liberty have been recorded in the de-occupied territories: three torture chambers and a place of deprivation of liberty were located directly in Kherson, another four torture chambers and seven places of deprivation of liberty were in the Berislavsky…

The Russians take Ukrainian POWs out of the places of detention allegedly for exchange and then return them to penal facilities, claiming that Ukraine refuses to exchange them. Ukraine considers it a form of torture. "Ukrainian prisoners are sometimes deliberately taken out allegedly for exchange and then returned to a penal facility and told that Ukraine refuses to exchange them. We consider it a form of torture. We emphasize that Ukraine has not rejected a single person offered by the Russian side for exchange," Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, posted on Telegram. In addition, Lubinets informed…

Russian aggressors intend to take children from the temporarily captured territories to Moscow under the pretext of a trip to see a New Year’s show. The exiled Mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, announced this on the air of the national telethon, Ukrinform reports. "Now the occupiers are trying to gather approximately 1,500-2,000 children from the temporarily occupied territory and, under the guise of New Year's holidays, take them, as they claim, to the New Year's show in Moscow. But we well remember September, when the ruscists gathered children from Enerhodar, Kamianka-Dniprovska, claiming they were taking them for a week, but…

The United States can significantly speed up Ukraine's victory in the war with Russia by boosting the supply of a range of military equipment to Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky stated this in his address to both chambers of U.S. Congress, Ukrinform’s own correspondent reports. He emphasized that "Ukraine never asked the American soldiers to fight on our land instead of us. I assure you that Ukrainian soldiers can perfectly operate American tanks and planes themselves. Our lack of armored vehicles and aviation prolongs this war and allows Russia to kill our people, to keep the occupied cities and villages of Ukraine…

Russian troops have struck the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Marhanets community with heavy artillery. The relevant statement was made by Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Head Mykola Lukashuk on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. “This afternoon it has been restless in the Nikopol district’s Marhanets community. Russian occupation troops struck its settlements with heavy artillery,” Lukashuk wrote. In his words, seven residential houses were hit. Two household buildings and a gas pipeline were seriously damaged. Fortunately, no casualties among civilians were reported. A reminder that, on the night of December 19, 2022, Russian invaders attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with suicide drones, heavy artillery and…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) recently visited the places of detention of Ukrainian POWs in the territory of the Russian Federation. "A representative of the Coordination Headquarters reported that the ICRC the other day managed to get into the places of detention of our prisoners in the territory of the Russian Federation. The ICRC representatives do not disclose the location. Also, according to the ICRC data, about 120 Ukrainian defenders in captivity received warm clothes and hygiene products," the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War posted on Telegram. As noted, this was discussed during…

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak has discussed the ways of implementing a Ukrainian peace formula at a meeting with ex-commander of the U.S. Africa Command, General David Rodriguez, former commander of the Norwegian Armed Forces, General Sverre Diesen, and regional director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) David Gorman. According to Ukrinform, the meeting took place on the evening of Tuesday, December 20, the presidential press service said. Yermak told the interlocutors about the Ukrainian Peace Formula, which President Volodymyr Zelensky presented during an online speech at the G20 Summit in Indonesia. According…

The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, and the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Rajmund Andrzejczak, have discussed the security situation in the region and scenarios for its development. According to Ukrinform, Zaluzhnyi reported this on the messaging app Telegram. "I had the honor to welcome to Ukraine the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland and my friend, General Rajmund Andrzejczak. This is an opportunity to openly discuss the security situation in the region and scenarios for its development. I am grateful that Ukraine is…

Police officers have so far opened 49,940 criminal proceedings to investigate the crimes committed by the Russians and their accomplices in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war. "Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the National Police investigators have initiated 49,940 inquiries into the crimes committed by service members of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and their accomplices in the territory of Ukraine," the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reports. In particular, 38,398 cases were opened under Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (Violation of laws and customs…

About 87,000 citizens have been evacuated from dangerous regions of Ukraine over the past few months. The Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine said this in a post on the messaging app Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "In recent months, over 43,000 people have left the dangerous parts of the Zaporizhzhia region, about 34,000 [evacuated] from the Kherson region, approximately 5,000 from the Donetsk and Luhansk region, and over 5,000 citizens from the Kharkiv region," the report reads. It added that the evacuation from the liberated territories is ongoing. According to the ministry, more than 12,000 people were evacuated…