The collection of preliminary interviews by lawyers and psychologists of the Center for the Documentation of War Crimes (hereinafter - the Center) began on September 12, 2022, and from that time until December 27, 656 preliminary interviews were collected. Witnesses and victims reported about 4487 war crimes. Interviews were collected directly at the Center premises (Marszalkowska 77/79) in Warsaw and during the visits of specialists (lawyers and psychologists) to the places of centralized re...

Last week (January 23–29) saw a distinctive turning point in strengthening Ukraine's defense capability. Our Armed Forces will receive German Leopard tanks and US Abrams tanks. Germany also allowed other countries to re-export tanks of their production. Over the past week, Ukraine has expanded the tank coalition to 12 countries, which can potentially provide more than 300 modern vehicles. At the same time, russia is planning a new wave of offensive in the coming months, mobilizing Ukrainian c...

For now, at least until the end of hostilities, a tribunal on russian propagandists seems to have little chance of working. However, there is a way to at least partially reduce the damage from their actions, such as to impose sanctions against the propagandists themselves and against TV channels and other media that share disinformation. OPORA explored what sanctions against russian media had been imposed by various countries of the world and why it is important to continue lobbying for their...

Last week (January, 16–22) the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and the Netherlands announced another package of military assistance to Ukraine. This happened against the backdrop of the 8th Ramstein meeting on January, 20. The weapons batch to be transferred to Ukraine mostly contains armored vehicles and artillery systems, as well as additional air defense systems. However, during the meeting in Ramstein, the participants did not st...

Ukrainian civil society organizations call on Western decision-makers to unite and provide Ukraine with modern Western tanks during the next Rammstein meeting on January 20. Ukraine is constantly suffering from massive Russian attacks on civilian facilities and energy infrastructure. There is a clear pattern of Russian treatment of residents in the occupied towns, which are visible after the liberation: torture prisons, numerous war crimes, kids abducted and deported to Russia and others. Rus...

In a previous review, OPORA wrote that the beginning of January stayed in the memory due to the fact of  providing Ukraine with a Patriot air defense squadron and a little more than 400 units of various armored vehicles. The trend also remained relevant in the past week (January 9–15). In particular, Poland was the first among the allies to announce that they would transfer 14 modern Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine. Now, the permission for their supply shall come from Germany as a manufacturer cou...

In the event when during the stay of the respondents in Poland, Ukraine will be holding national elections, most of the study participants (82%) would like to participate. Compared to the turnout in the last national elections in Ukraine (parliamentary elections in July, 2019), today, respondents are more eager to participate in the elections. Sometimes, the discussion of elections came as a surprise because Ukraine currently has the martial law, and the conduct of elections can only be possi...

56% of respondents used Facebook, it became the main source of news for 15%. The advantage of this social network is the automatic selection of information, the disadvantage is about the long time to publish a piece of news and how it is displayed on the feed. YouTube was viewed by 51% of respondents, as the main source of news it is used by 12%.