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The Loss of Civilian Population, the Destruction of Housing And ДоповіДь про втрати цивільного населення, руйнуванняREPO житла та інфраструктуриRT the loss of civilian population, внасліДок війни на схоДі україни the destruction of housing and infrastructure as a result of the armed conflict in eastern ukraine kharkiv human rights publisher 2018 УДК 355.244.01-053.18(477.61/.62-07)(047)=111 Д68 THE LIst OF ABBREVIatIONS АТО — anti-terrorist operation; BTD — battalion of territorial defense; CC — Criminal Code of Ukraine; CIOP — check-in/out point; CL — contact line; This report was prepared with financial support of CMA — civil and military administration; DB — database; DSA — District State Administration; ECtHR — European Court of Human Rights; HRMM — United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine; HS — human settlement; GS — General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; IAF — Illegal armed formations; IDP — Internally displaced persons; KHPG — Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group; LA — local authority; LAF — legal armed formations; LOHRC Alternative — Luhansk oblast human rights protection center “Alternative”; MD — Ministry of Defense of Ukraine; MDNP — Main Department of National Police; Yuriy Aseev, Stanislav Pylaev, Yana Smelyanska, Anastasia Yegorova, Yevgeniy Zakharov MIA — Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine; Д68 Report the loss of civilian population, the destruction of housing and infrastructure as a result MM — mass media; of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine / compiler Yevgeniy Zakharov; CO «Kharkiv Human Rights МТОТ — Ministry for Temporary Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons of Ukraine; Protection Group». — Kharkiv: LLB “Human Rights Publisher”, 2018. — 116 p. NPU — National Police of Ukraine; NSDC — National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine; ISBN 978-617-7391-34-9 ORDLO — separate areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts on non-government controlled territory; Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group offers the readers the report on the results of study of the consequences of the OSCE — Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; armed conflict for civilian population and civilian objects on the territory, where in 2014–2015 there were hostilities, and along the demarcation line between the occupied territories and the territories controlled by the government. PCPCRF — Public Committee for the Protection of Constitutional Rights and Freedoms; RB — roadblock; This report was prepared by Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group with the support of the United Nations RSA — Regional State Administration; Development Program (UNDP) and the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, National Endowment for Democracy, International Renaissance Foundation. RSVF — rocket system of volley fire; The views, expressed in this publication, are those of the authors and may not coincide with the official position of the UNDP, SSU — Security Service of Ukraine; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, National Endowment for Democracy, International Renaissance Foundation. S.-c. “LPR” — so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic”; УДК 355.244.01-053.18(477.61/.62-07)(047)=111 S.-c. “DPR” — so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic”; SLC — Strategic Litigations Center; © Yuriy Aseev, Stanislav Pylaev, Yana Smelyanska, UAF — Ukrainian Armed Forces; Anastasia Yegorova, Yevgeniy Zakharov, 2018 UAMBR — United Airmobile Brigade; © Yevgeniy Zakharov, compiled, 2018 URPI — Unified Register of pre-trial investigation; © CO “Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group”», 2018 VRU — Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. ISBN 978-617-7391-33-2 © Oleg Miroshnychenko, design, 2018 2 THE LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 3 SUMMARY INTRODUCTION O “Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group” Section 6 and annexes 2, 3, 4 contain the in- harkiv Human Rights Protection Group offers the While the accounting for the military men who C(KHPG), a Ukrainian non-state non-profit human formation about deaths and injuries of civilian Kreaders the report on the results of study of the were killed or wounded on the controlled territories rights organization, presents this report, which residents of HS near CL. Annexes 2 and 3 examine consequences of the armed conflict for civilian pop- is careful, the accounting for the deaths and injuries contains various information about deceased and the events, that caused deaths and injuries of the ulation and civilian objects on the territory, where of the civilians is not kept by state authorities at all. wounded civilians and the destructions of houses civilians, accordingly, in seven districts — Stanitsa in 2014–2015 there were hostilities, and along the Such accounting is kept on the occupied territories, and infrastructure as a result of hostilities during Luhanska, Popasna, Novoaydar, Maryinka, Volno- CL bet ween the occupied territories and the territo- but the published data is controversial. Therefore, the armed conflict in the east of Ukraine in 2014–2018. vakha, Bakhmut, Yasinuvata, as well as the towns ries controlled by the government, which practically authors of the study have set a goal for themselves Section 2 “Introduction” contains short informa- of Avdiivka and Mariupol, and contain the extracts remained an area of hostilities in 2015–2018. to clarify the number of killed and wounded persons, tion about KHPG, expresses gratitude to the inter- from the interviews with the witnesses of events. KHPG was registered in 1992. KHPG tries to the number of damaged and destroyer residential national charitable institutions which supported Annex 4 is dedicated to deaths and injuries of the change the situation with the right to life, freedom and administrative buildings, to analyze the causes our efforts and partner organizations that partici- civilians in the same areas as a result of explosions from torture and ill-treatment, freedom from arbi- of deaths, injuries and destructions and prepare the pated in the collection of information. of mines, tripwires and other explosive devices. trary detention, freedom of speech and informa- recommendations in order to reduce the losses of ci- Section 3 “Methodology” describes the kinds of The civilian victims of air raids and the people killed vilians, buildings and infrastructure objects. tion, the right to privacy, and the rights of vulner- the sources of information, methodology of monitor- and injured on RB and during the crossing of CL are The losses were divided in two parts: Those which able groups of population — prisoners, PLWH, drug ing visits to HS on the territory controlled by the gov- presented separately. occurred during hostilities in 2014 in HS that were addicts, asylum seekers and others in Ukraine for ernment, interviewing of the victims of hostilities, Section 7 shows the scale of losses of civilian liberated from illegal armed formations, and those better. SLC of KHPG, created in 2003, examines methodology of collecting, verifying and summari- population in time and geographic dimensions. which occurred in HS along the CL, most of them around 200 cases per year in national courts and zing the information concerning the losses of civilian According to the results of the monitoring of KHPG had fierce battles in 2014 and there is a new shelling ECtHR. The lawyers of the Center have won more population and attacks on civilian objects on the ter- the losses are estimated approximately as 3500 de- every day now, and the losses keep increasing. Con- than 120 cases in ECtHR on the articles 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, ritory controlled by the government, methodology of ceased and 7000 wounded civilians. cerning the first part, the previously collected data 13 and other articles of ECHR, more than 400 cas- collecting, verifying and summarizing of the similar Section 8 examines the placement of military was systemized, the final data of killed and wounded information on the uncontrolled territory, as well as units and conducting the hostilities from the terri- es are pending consideration in ECtHR, more than persons was documented. Concerning the second the DB of KHPG as an instrument of analysis of the tory of HS as one of the causes of significant losses a half of them concern the crimes committed during part the data concerning the losses was clarified and collected data. The DB of KHPG contains more than of civilian population. the armed conflict in the east. the causal link was analyzed between the scale of 28 600 episodes with coded personal data concern- Section 9 contains various information concern- According to the HRMM’s data, during the entire losses and the placement of military units and the ing around 6.6 thousand civilian victims of the armed ing the destruction and damage to the residential conflict period, from 14 April 2014 to 15 May 2018, places from which the shelling was carried out. conflict and around 20.3 thousand of damaged and buildings and the objects of infrastructure on the at least 2,725 civilians have been killed: 1,568 men, In the part studying the losses of civilian popula- ruined residential buildings and infrastructure ob- controlled and uncontrolled territory. Some ex- 961 women, 93 boys, 47 girls and 56 adults whose tion in 2014–2015 and the issue of compensations jects with identification of their addresses. amples of the destructions on the non-government sex is unknown. An additional 298 civilians, includ- for the civilian victims of the conflict KHPG coope- Section 4 analyzes the responses to the infor- controlled territory are given in Annex 5. Annexes 6 ing 80 children, were killed by the downing of flight rated with other members of Coalition “Justice for mation
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