Preliminary documents of the international monitoring group according to the results of the monitoring mission carried out from October 23 to 30, 2016 in areas of the Donetsk region.

The preliminary report has been prepared by members of the international monitoring group according to the results of the mission, which took place from October 23 to 30, 2016 in the territory of the Donetsk region under Ukrainian control. The mission’s participants were representatives of civil society organisations from Germany, Ukraine, Poland and Russia.

The group consisted of:

• Anastasia Koehler (Germany), German-Russian Exchange

• Thomas Schneider (Germany), German-Russian Exchange

• Valerii Novikov (Ukraine), Luhansk Regional Human Rights Centre ‘Alternatyva’

• Denis Denisenko (Ukraine), Luhansk Regional Human Rights Centre ‘Alternatyva’

• Natalia Ponomareva (Ukraine), Starobelskii civil organisation ‘Volia’

• Grzegorz Russek (Poland), ‘Wschodnia Perspektywa’ Association

• Dmitrii Egoshin (Russia), human rights activist