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Since its deployment in March 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) has monitored, publicly reported and advocated on the human rights situation in Ukraine. This briefing note emphasizes the need to ensure justice for the 48 people who lost their lives and for the estimated 247 people who sustained injuries on 2 May 2014 in Odesa during the clashes between two groups holding differing views about the state structure of Ukraine. The 2 May 2014 events can be divided into two incidents: (i) the unrest in the city centre during which six men were shot dead, and (ii) the unrest in Kulykove Pole square followed by the fire in the House of Trade Unions, which claimed the lives of 42 people.

This briefing note summarizes the developments in investigations and prosecutions of the killings and violent deaths 98 individuals (96 men, including one boy, and two women) during Maidan protests and offers recommendations to address shortcomings in administering justice for these crimes.

This report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) covers the multifaceted, interrelated and mutually reinforcing human rights violations and abuses and international humanitarian law violations, committed against civilians and persons hors de combat during the Ilovaisk events in August 2014. In particular, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) documented numerous violations and abuses of the rights to life, liberty, security and physical integrity during these events.

Since its deployment on 14 March 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) has been gathering substantial information related to the arbitrary deprivation of life, one of the gravest human rights violations, notably during assemblies, in 2014 and 2015, as well as in the eastern areas affected by the ongoing conflict.