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Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch

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    Mar 25

    1/5 should immediately release scores of migrants and asylum seekers detained in the Zhuravyci Migrant Accommodation Center in NW Ukraine and facilitate their travel to  to seek refuge.

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    Mar 21

    Most of the 200k ppl still in have been sheltering in basements to avoid death/injury but ppl with limited mobility incl. older ppl and ppl w/ disabilities could not make it down into basements once electricity was cut and elevators stopped working 1/📸Sergii Marakov

    📸Sergii Marakov
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    Mar 21

    Today, Moscow court banned Meta as “extremist” following the exceptions to its policies which allowed calls for violence against Russian armed forces in Ukraine. Earlier, authorities fully blocked Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. They also threaten to restrict access to YouTube.

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    Mar 17

    "Our city center is being erased." That's what one witness to the war in Kharkiv, Ukraine's 2nd city, told . We mapped the homes of the people we spoke to to videos of their neighborhoods, schools, churches, shops destroyed in 1st 11 days. Explore here

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    Mar 17

    Some thoughts after 2 days of interviewing dozens of residents of who described to me the hell they escaped from. They were the lucky ones who were able to make it out in their own cars, but they left thousands behind with no electricity, gas, water and phone reception

    Ukraine: Mariupol Refugees
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    Mar 6

    1/ Russia enacts drastic laws to criminalize independent war reporting. Deep dive by : laws mean draconian censorship, could be retroactive for previous social media posts & impose long jail terms for criticising Russian army, sanctions on Russia.

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    Mar 7

    Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, has been under intense shelling by Russian forces for 12 days now. Efforts to evacuate civilians have been impeded by continuous fighting, which made it extremely dangerous for civilians to be on the move.

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    Mar 4

    A saving grace that there was no damage to the reactors of 's nuclear plant on March 3- but it was simply too close. There are 3 other nuclear power plants in Ukraine (discounting Chernobyl) so here's a brief🧵on what the laws of war say [1/6]

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    Mar 1

    Heartbreaking stories of those fleeing the war in Ukraine from

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    Mar 1

    If you want to understand how human rights and humanitarian law apply in the conflict in Ukraine, please read this Q & A from

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    Mar 1

    Here are 5 ‘golden rules’ for European countries as people flee Ukraine 👇 1. Treat everyone equally. 2. Humanity first. 3. Keep all families together. 4. Cut the red tape. 5. Share responsibility.

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  12. Feb 28

    Today, as the fighting continued in with new civilian casualties, ’s Supreme Court shut down Memorial, the country’s leading civil society organisation.

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  13. Feb 25

    This callous attack in has killed and injured civilians, and damaged a hospital.Russian forces should stop using cluster munitions and end unlawful strikes with weapons that indiscriminately kill and maim.

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    Feb 25

    Russian strike on hospital in . Unlawful use of cluster munition killed 4 civilians. They all have names. These are the details, from 's experts on the ground.

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    Feb 24

    One more thread today, and then I'm going to take a break and decompress for a while. This one's about protests and Russian public opinion.

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  16. Feb 24

    and the laws of war Q&A by

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    Feb 22

    President Putin signed a decree recognizing parts of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions as independent entities, and ordered Russia's armed forces to cross into Ukraine. These troops are an occupying force under international law.

    Russia and Ukraine
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    Feb 22

    Protection of civilians in Ukraine should be top priority right now. Reminder: war has been ongoing since 2014, when Russia occupied Crimea, and started backing armed groups in Donbas. Twitter Space on-topic with & :

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    Feb 22

    Just look at this insanity. Putin’s press secretary refuses to clarify if his boss has endorsed a policy that would mean invading Ukrainian cities now home to hundreds of thousands of people.

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    Feb 21

    17-page treaties of "Friendship and Cooperation and mutual assistance' between Russia and DPR and LPR for the 10 years term have already been signed: building military bases and joint border control, supporting financial and banking system of D/LPR.

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