The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine published in December the Report on the Human Rigths situation in Ukraine, describing events that happened in June-November, 2025. ARC’s experts actively communicated with UN Mission officials, describing to them the war crimes and gross human rights violations, committed by Russian forces in the occupied territories of Ukraine, including Crimea.
Report points that in occupied territory, Russian occupying “authorities” continued to restrict civilians’ rights and violate fundamental provisions of international humanitarian law. The occupying “authorities” continued to implement “legislation” allowing expropriation of allegedly abandoned residential property. “Summer camps” and changes to the 2025-2026 “school curriculum” reinforced Russian “patriotic education” for children as young as three years old in occupied territory of Ukraine, while militarized “competitive activities” were held for children under the oversight of soldiers from the Russian armed forces. Residents of occupied territory faced continued restrictions on freedom of expression, religion, and privacy, including prosecution for perceived pro-Ukrainian expression.
Report points that in occupied Crimea, just regarding “court documents” that are publicly available, Russian-appointed “courts” convicted 38 people (15 women and 23 men) in Crimea for acts that OHCHR assessed as legitimate exercises of their freedom of expression, including, for example, posting on their personal social media profiles items such as patriotic Ukrainian songs and statements or images that mocked or criticized the occupying “authorities”. Also Russian-appointed “courts” “convicted” 209 individuals (144 women and 65 men) in Crimea for the so called “discrediting the armed forces of Russia” during the reporting period.
In October, the occupying “authorities” charged four Crimean Tatar women with “involvement in a terrorist organization” based on their suspected membership in “Hizb ut-Tahrir”, an “Islamist organization” banned under Russian law but not under Ukrainian law.
The UN demanded Russia immediately cease all acts of extrajudicial execution, torture, ill-treatment, and sexual violence against both prisoners of war and civilian detainees and end all unlawful practices relating to detention; provide the International Committee of the Red Cross full, regular, and unimpeded access to all Ukrainian detainees; and ensure that detainees are provided with information about their places of detention.
UN demanded Russia to immediately halt the “conscription” of protected persons from occupied territory into its armed forces and end all practices that pressure or compel them to “register for military service”, including through the “mandatory use of state digital services,” immediately end the “confiscation” of property in occupied territory, and repeal the “legislation” that facilitates the expropriation of so-called “abandoned” properties, to end all forms of “patriotic”-military education and propaganda in schools and summer camps, etc.
