The European Court of Human Rights confirmed public hearings regarding the decision in the case of the occupation of Donbas

The European Court of Human Rights officially announced that on January 25 it will issue a decision in a major case about the occupation of Donbas.

This was reported by the press service of the European Court of Human Rights.

“The European Court of Human Rights will rule on admissibility in the case “Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia” (applications Nos. 8019/16, 43800/14 and 28525/20) at an open hearing on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. in the House of human rights in Strasbourg,” the message reads.

The European Court of Human Rights explained that the case concerns the conflict in eastern Ukraine involving pro-Russian separatists, which began in 2014, and, in particular, the alleged constant practice (“administrative practice”) of violations of the Convention by the separatists of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR “) and the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”), as well as the downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.

The applicants in this case are Ukraine and the Netherlands. The Russian Federation is the respondent state.

The court’s recognition of the admissibility of the case will mean that the court recognizes Russia’s control over Donbas and determines the temporal and territorial limits of the occupation. This decision of the European Court of Human Rights will become an argument for other court processes.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, 337 children are considered missing, and 459 minors have died at the hands of the aggressors.

This is reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.

As noted by the prosecutor’s office, as of the morning of January 19, 2023, at least 1,368 children suffered.

According to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, the official number of children who died is 459.

The number of victims in the war increased – 909 minors who received injuries of various degrees of severity.

Juvenile prosecutors emphasize that these numbers are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

Children were most affected in:

• Donetsk region – 429,
• Kharkivska – 269,
• Kyivska – 117,
• Mykolaivska – 82,
• Chernihivska – 68,
• Luhansk – 66,
• Khersonska – 83,
• Zaporizhia – 84,
• Dnipropetrovsk – 57.

The latest discovered facts of crimes against children:

• as of January 18, it became known about three more dead children and three wounded as a result of an enemy rocket attack on a residential building in the city of Dnipro on January 14. So far, 6 children have died. 17 were injured.

As reported, 3,126 educational institutions were damaged due to bombing and shelling by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. 337 of them were completely destroyed.

In addition, juvenile prosecutors report that they have already found 9,091 children. The prosecutor’s office considers 337 minors to be missing.

In addition, the department emphasized that 13,916 children were deported to Russia and the so-called republics, of which only 126 minors were returned home.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the troops of the Russian Federation have killed 459 children in Ukraine, and another 909 children have been injured.

This is reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office.

“As of the morning of January 19, 2023, more than 1,368 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to the official information of the juvenile prosecutors, 459 children died and more than 909 were injured of various degrees of severity,” the message reads.

It is emphasized that the specified numbers are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in the places of hostilities, in temporarily captured and liberated territories.

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the largest number of children were affected in Donetsk oblast – 429, Kharkiv oblast – 269, Kyiv oblast – 117, Zaporizhia oblast – 84, Kherson oblast – 83, Mykolaiv oblast – 82, Chernihiv oblast – 68, Luhansk oblast – 66, Dnipropetrovsk oblast – 57.

Russian troops damaged a total of 3,126 educational institutions in Ukraine by bombing and shelling, 337 of them were completely destroyed.

125 children illegally deported to the Russian Federation from the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian army were returned to Ukraine. In total, Russia kidnapped almost 14 thousand Ukrainian children.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has destroyed 200 and damaged about 1,000 medical facilities. This was announced by the Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko.

“If we talk about damaged objects, that is, the hospital has several buildings, then the number is more than 1,000. Almost 200 are completely destroyed, they cannot be restored,” the minister said.

According to him, if necessary, these hospitals will be rebuilt “from scratch” – according to new projects and with the use of new technologies. Lyashko also noted that it was possible to restore part of the medical facilities.

“We are working in this direction, and the government allocates subventions to the regions to restore and start health care facilities,” the minister added.

The head of the Ministry of Health added that the restoration of the hospital that was damaged by Russian shelling in October 2022 has been completed in Kyiv.

A few days ago, it was reported that the Russians shelled a hospital in Kurakhovo.

More than 200 athletes, trainers and employees of physical culture and sports institutions have died since the beginning of the full-scale war, according to the Minister of Youth and Sports Vadym Gutzait.

“The lives of 12 experienced and very young members of our sports family have been cut short by enemy missiles and bullets since the beginning of 2023. More than 200 Angels of sports – since the beginning of the war,” the press service of the ministry said, referring to Gutzeit’s words.

In Ukraine, 320 sports facilities have already been damaged by the military aggression of the Russian Federation, 87 of them have been completely or partially destroyed, the amount of losses exceeds 250 million dollars.