Any crisis, particularly armed conflict, is inevitably accompanied by rising levels of poverty and increased societal demand for both material and financial humanitarian assistance. Following the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine became a hub for the operational activity of various humanitarian organizations – both international and domestic. The unprecedented volume of aid flowing into the…
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ProtectEU: a European Internal Security Strategy
Security is the bedrock upon which all our freedoms are built. Democracy, the rule of law, fundamental rights, the wellbeing of Europeans, competitiveness and prosperity – all hinge on our ability to provide a basic security guarantee. In the new era of security threats that we now live in, EU Member States’ ability to guarantee…
Dmytro Yagunov: How to Return Trust to the Police in Postwar Ukraine
During the war, the Government had the priority to combat against Russian occupiers, where a traditional peace-time issue of human rights approach has been replaced with humanitarian law. There are grounds to believe that Ukraine will have a generation of police officers grown up on the long distance from procedural justice and human rights. We can also presume…
Maryna Demura: The State of Compliance with Fundamental Human Rights Guarantees in Criminal Proceedings Under Martial Law
Access to a lawyer is an important guarantee of the right to a fair trial, the right to defence, the presumption of innocence and other fundamental rights. In Ukraine, representation in courts and public authorities is carried out exclusively by lawyers (advocates)[1]. Article 213 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (CPC) obliges the official who carried out…
Dmytro Yagunov, Maryna Demura: Domestic Violence in Ukraine. Policing and the Impact of the War
Recently, domestic violence has become an object of special attention by the Parliament, the Government, and the society in general. Therefore, domestic violence could be an attractive object for criminological research in the context of the impact of the War on the society. In 2017, the Criminal Code was supplemented by Article 126-1 according to…
Dmytro Yagunov: Crime Rates in Ukraine and the Impact of the War
In 2022, the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies (hereafter – LEA) registered 362636 crimes with corresponding criminal proceedings where the above-mentioned numbers reflect both criminal proceedings with concrete suspects and so-called “factual” criminal proceedings (without concrete suspects). It should be noted that the number of registered crimes even for the period of ten months of 2022…
Albert Yezerov: The Impact of War on Human Rights: Restrictions and Derogations
krainian statehood has existed and transformed for more than ten years in conditions of the Russian armed aggression. Although Ukraine’s institutional system has been constantly tested by political crises and corruption, and traditions of constitutionalism were not well established before the War, the State is a developing constitutional democracy. The political and legal reality that…
Khatia Dekanoidze: Police Reform in Ukraine: Achievements and Failures
The Soviet Union established a deeply corrupt and flawed criminal justice system designed to protect itself. Infiltrated by organised crime, it essentially functioned as a criminal body. Following the Soviet collapse, except for the Baltic states, corruption, clan-based structures, nepotism, and human rights violations persisted in the newly independent republics, mirroring the Soviet framework. It…
Supreme Court (Ukraine): Artificial Intelligence Responses Are Not Recognised as a Source of Reliable, Acientifically Proven Information
Artificial intelligence can be a useful and helpful informative tool in the field of justice, but it cannot replace either a judge or the principles of relevance, admissibility and reliability of evidence provided for in Chapter 5 ‘Evidence and Proof’ of the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine. This conclusion was reached by a panel of…
Ukraine: Ministry of Internal Affairs Plans to Introduce Police Officer Position in Every Community This Year
On 18 August 2025, Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine presented a draft Government Action Programme outlining key areas of state policy for 2025–2026. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, took part in the presentation. During the discussion panel, the Minister spoke about the work of the…