The Ukrainian Justice Ministry is helping citizens prepare individual complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), according to Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko.
“Already 600 complaints from Ukrainian citizens prepared with the help of the Justice Ministry were sent to the European Court,” he said.
According to Petrenko, Ukraine as a state has sent four complaints to the ECHR against Russia. The complaints indicate human rights violations from the annexation of Crimea and military operations in Donbas.
The minister says he is confident that Ukraine will find a way to make Russia liable for its military aggression and annexation of Crimea in the International Court of Justice.
Ukraine's ICTV channel shared a photo of a 74-year old man from the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps and told his story:
“In his spare time, he pickles cabbage. He says that if you do everything right, then a three-liter jar can hold five cabbages. The next day Tykhon will put on a bulletproof vest, get into a car along with the personnel and will head to Bilokamyanka to carry out an assault.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will visit Ukraine in September, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin announced today.
“NATO secretary-general’s visit next month will be really significant, watch for this visit,” Klimkin said.
In other news, Russian President Vladimir Putin will head Russia’s delegation to the 70th UN General Assembly, which will open on September 15 in New York.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s National Front party won’t participate in local elections on October 25 this year.
The decision was made by the party’s political council, he says.
“These elections are local, not national. Ukrainian people must elect new representatives to the local government,” said Yatsenyuk.
Some political scientists have already speculated as to why the National Front made this decision:
Interesting figure cited by the Kremlin-funded RT network:
