Ukraine: Zelensky’s Plan Has No Legal Foundation

Rudi Friedrich, Commentary in taz, 07.09.2023

Ukrainian military conscripts who currently reside in the EU are in an uproar. President Zelensky announced that he will submit extradition requests to recruit those who have fled the country and evaded a draft. Due to the European Council Directive 2001/55/EC of July 20, 2001, better known as the “Temporary Protection Directive” (TPD), all Ukrainian citizens receive temporary humanitarian residences in the European Union at the moment. More (in English and German)

Ukraine: Release peace activist Yurii Sheliazhenko and drop all charges against him

EBCO, WRI, IFOR, Connection e.V., 17.08.2023

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO), War Resisters’ International (WRI), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and Connection e.V. strongly condemn the fact that Yurii Sheliazhenko (Ukranian: Юрій Шеляженко), a well-known conscientious objector, pacifist, human rights defender and lawyer, Executive Secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (Ukranian: Український Рух Пацифістів), has been placed under partial house arrest by the Solomyanskyi District Court of Kyiv on 15 August 2023. More