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During a meeting with EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore, Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova discussed respect for children's rights, ensuring gender equality, and the rights of national and sexual minorities.
On October 21, the Russian occupation forces violated the ceasefire four times, including once with the use of weapons proscribed by the Minsk agreements.
21 October 2021
The European Union is concerned about the situation of detainees in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and calls on the occupation authorities of non-government-controlled areas to greenlight monitoring and access to detainees.
OSCE SMM is unable to send a patrol from the Donetsk Patrol Hub as the Mission members are still blocked in the hotel they reside in the temporarily occupied Donetsk.
The foreign delegation led by European Union's Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore visited the Joint Forces Operation area in eastern Ukraine on October 20.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupation forces violated ceasefire 14 times, including three – with the use of weapons proscribed by the Minsk agreements.
20 October 2021
Russian-backed forces continue to block the hotel in occupied Donetsk where OSCE observers reside, according to daily report 245/2021 published by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine on October 19, 2021.
The European Commission has announced an additional €3.5 million in humanitarian aid to support vulnerable people affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has presented state awards to three servicemen.
The Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group has said that the Russian Foreign Ministry has officially recognized the participation of Russian citizens in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Russia may resort to new provocations against representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reported on Facebook.
On October 19, Russian occupation forces eight times violated the ceasefire in eastern, while a Ukrainian serviceman was wounded in one of the enemy attacks.
Special Representative of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on Eastern Europe Daniela De Ridder (Germany) said that undue restrictions on the freedom of movement of the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine are a troubling development that must be reversed.
19 October 2021
Russia, which unleashed the war in eastern Ukraine, obstructs a peaceful settlement of this armed conflict.
No third country has the right to veto Ukraine's accession to NATO. Ukraine is free to determine its future without external interference.
The United States intends to strengthen its strategic defense partnership with Ukraine, according to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
At the level of defense ministers, Ukraine and the United States coordinated the steps of practical implementation of agreements to ensure Ukraine's defense on land, in the air, at sea, and in cyberspace from existing and potential threats.
Between the evenings of 15 and 17 October, the OSCE SMM recorded 734 ceasefire violations in Donetsk region and 78 ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed enemy caches of weapons in Donetsk region and Kherson. Among the seized items is almost 15 kg worth of explosives with detonators, as well as anti-tank mines.
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has resumed patrolling from its forward patrol base in Horlivka, according to a spot report issued by the SMM on October 19.
Russian occupation forces over the past 24 hours seven times breached the ceasefire, including one time with the use of weaponry proscribed by the Minsk Agreements.
18 October 2021
As many as 426 citizens of Ukraine are being held in inhumane conditions in detention centers in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine on trumped-up politically motivated charges, according to Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova.
In Horlivka, the town in the area beyond Ukrainian government control, members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission are being held in a hotel against their will.
Ukraine has received another load of United States government's foreign technical assistance. This is the second batch the American partners delivered for the needs of Ukraine’s Armed Forces following the agreements reached during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent visit to the United States.
Ukraine has received another load of United States government's foreign technical assistance. This is the second batch the American partners delivered for the needs of Ukraine’s Armed Forces following the agreements reached during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent visit to the United States.
Russian occupation forces over the past 24 hours committed four ceasefire violations in the Joint Forces Operation zone.
16 October 2021
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will meet with Ukraine's top political and military leadership as part of his visit to Kyiv next week, according to the website of the U.S. Department of Defense.
The National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has approved Ukraine's Defense Plan, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov has said at a briefing.
Over the past day, October 15, eight ceasefire violations by the armed formations of the Russian Federation were recorded in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in eastern Ukraine, the JFO press center wrote on Facebook.