Throughout 2023, Russian servicemen continued to commit numerous violations of international humanitarian law on the territory of Ukraine – deliberate killings and casualties among civilians, summary executions and torture of combatants, sexual violence, indiscriminate attacks, threats to high-risk facilities, looting of property, illegal deprivation of liberty. These violations are the focus of the Annual digest on human rights violations during the war in Ukraine, prepared by the Eastern Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives. It briefly outlines the main types of IHL violations that took place in Ukraine during 2023 or became known during this or that period of time.

Premeditated murders and tortures of civilians, sexual violence and deliberate attacks on the civilian population and civilian objects - this an incomplete list of crimes committed in November by the Russian military. This is stated in the digest from the experts of the EUCCI.

On 3 December, the International Day of people with disabilities is commemorated. We decided to dedicate today's text from the #mistsya_nesvobody chapter to this date. There is no official statistics on how many people with special needs are held captive in the "LDNR" ("Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics"), yet we can say for sure that they are the most vulnerable category among prisoners. What can they and their relatives hope for? More on this later.

Russian military personnel continue to violate the norms of international law in the territory of Ukraine. In particular, in July, experts of the Eastern Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives recorded the following types of offenses

The Russian Federation does not reduce the scope of shelling of civilian objects, the number of reports of premeditated murder and sexual violence has increased, and the threat to peaceful nuclear facilities remains. These and other violations of IHL norms are reported in the Digest prepared by the Eastern Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives.

The largest number of victims killed in the Bucha Raion was males aged between 35 and 60 years (44%). Most of the murdered civilians whose cause of death could be established have died as a result of gunshot wounds, the digest of human rights violations, released by the Eastern Ukrainian Center for Civic Initiatives, says.

The number of new violations committed by the Russian military in Ukraine is growing rapidly.