Tag: Russia-Ukraine war

On Monday, 25 January 2016, during the year-opening session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, representatives of the Ukrainian and Russian civil society gathered at an event organized by the Open Dialogue Foundation and the Kyiv Dialogue.

The Russian regime held a show trial involving opponents of the annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Oleg Sentsov and Aleksander Kolchenko were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on trumped-up charges of terrorism

As a result of military operations in the Donbass, hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their permanent places of residence and move to other regions of Ukraine.

The preliminary investigation into the criminal case against the Ukrainian political prisoner Nadiya Savchenko has come to an end. In the near future, the results of which will be submitted for consideration by the court.

A lot of controversies have arisen in connection with the volunteer battalions which have been involved in the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine. To a great extent, this is due to Russian media propaganda which promulgates the notion that the battalion soldiers are, in fact, ‘fascists’.

Should Poland trade in weapons with Ukraine? –Definitely. The question whether war will break out is a rhetorical one because the war has been going on for many months now – emphasized the Chair of the Open Dialogue Foundation’s Council Bartosz Kramek, interviewed by TVN BiŚ.

Tomasz Maciejczuk of the Open Dialogue Foundation talked, for Newsweek Polska, about the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Donbas and his work as a volunteer in Eastern Ukraine.

On TV Republika, a volunteer of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Tomasz Maciejczuk, talked about the beastly treatment given to Ukrainian prisoners of war by separatists

As many as 6,000 people have already died in the conflict in Ukraine. They lost their lives because Russians have decided to seperate the Donbass from Ukraine.

A volunteer of the Open Dialogue Foundation, Tomasz Maciejczuk, talked on TVN BiŚ about the Ukrainians killed amongst the rubble of the new Donetsk airport terminal.

Bartosz Kramek and Zenya Klimakyin of TVN BiŚ as well as Tomasz Maciejczuk, straight from the front line, talked about the heroic defence of the airport in Donetsk by Ukrainian soldiers.

In its news programme, TVP Rzeszów reported that a Pole has been wounded by shots fired by separatists in Donbas.

The Polish Radio station reported on more tensions in Ukraine – fights are continuously ongoing in the self-proclaimed republics. The situation was commented upon by the Foundation’s spokesman, Tomasz Czuwara.

If the conflict in the Donbas ‘freezes’, the territory controlled by separatists, in economic terms, may come to mirror the fate of Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

‘70 helmets were donated for Ukrainian soldiers by the Open Dialogue Foundation. Over 20 ODF volunteers carried the gear across the pedestrian border crossing in Medyka late Tuesday evening’ – reported the Polish Press Agency (PAP).