“Russia must immediately cease its aggression in eastern Ukraine and end its occupation of Crimea,” said US diplomat Rodney Hunter. The US and Europe have accused Russia of blocking solutions to try to finally end the conflict. Putin's forces then launched a military incursion into these regions as they gave their support to the rebels.Īlmost seven years have now passed and the War in Donbas remains at a stalemate. Russia gave their backing the separatist forces which formed breakaway republics in Donetsk and Luhansk. The conflict then spiralled when pro-Russian groups in Eastern Ukraine then took up arms against the state.
Vladimir Putin's forces annexed the region of Crimea from Ukraine in a move which was widely condemned by the West. The conflict was triggered by the Ukrainian Revolution - when an uprising overthrew the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych. RUSSIA and the Ukraine have remained technically at war since 2014.
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"OHCHR received information that victims were coerced to self-incriminate, testify against others or provide DNA samples outside the standard framework for doing so," it adds.Ĭourts continue to deliver guilty verdicts in high-profile cases in which the fair trial guarantees of the accused might not have been fully respected. It reported that those nabbed by authorities are denied access to lawyers, including when they've been "abducted by police". Tensions continued though and local Russian communities tried to assert sovereignty and increase ties with Russia.Īnother source of tension has been the presence of the Russian fleet in the port of Sevastopol.īoth countries had agreed to allow the Black Sea Fleet to remain until 2017.īut after the election of the pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovych as president in 2010, Ukraine agreed to extend the lease by 25 years beyond 2017, in return for cheaper Russian gas.īoth international human rights law and international humanitarian law prohibit "torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment", it said. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred it to Ukraine. They were only allowed to return after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Josef Stalin accused many Ukrainians of collaborating with the Nazis and deported millions en masse to Central Asia and Siberia towards the end of the war. It was given autonomous republic status within Russia after the Bolshevik revolution.ĭuring World War II it was occupied by the Nazis. The region has been hotly-contested for centuries with Russia annexing Crimea during the reign of Catherine the Great in 1783 and it remained part of Russia until 1954.
The conflict in 2014 was the worst crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War which escalated after Ukraine’s pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych was driven from power after violent protests.įorces backed by Moscow, seized control of the Crimea, which has a Russian-speaking majority, and the people voted to join Russia in a referendum which was deemed illegal by Ukraine and the West.
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