Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights

Italy allows Ukrainian commissioner access to suspect in Nord Stream sabotage

Italian authorities granted a Ukrainian parliamentary commissioner access to Serhiy Kuznetsov, a Ukrainian man suspected of the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, for a four-hour meeting on Nov. 15, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said in comments to news outlet Babel.

18 November 2025, 04:35 PM

Over 11,000 complaints on human rights violation filed in March — Ukrainian Ombudsman

The Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights received 11,139 complaints from citizens regarding their rights violations, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets wrote on April 7.

8 April 2025, 08:07 AM

Unacceptable and escalating: Lubinets warns of rising enlistment office violations

The number of reported rights violations during mobilization activities by territorial recruitment center staff has risen in 2025, with the nature of these violations changing, Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said in a Telegram post on March 21.

21 March 2025, 02:42 PM

15-year-old boy brutally beaten in dormitory in Khmelnytskyi: Ukraine's Ombudsman responds

A 15-year-old student of a vocational school was brutally beaten in a dormitory in Khmelnytskyi, resulting in his hospitalization in intensive care. The Human Rights Commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, responded to the incident.

15 October 2024, 12:47 PM

Russia holds 14,000 Ukrainian citizens hostage — Ukrainian Ombudsman

Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said that Russia is illegally holding more than 14,000 Ukrainian citizens, and the work on their return is the most difficult, Interfax-Ukraine reported on June 30.

30 June 2024, 03:55 PM

Russia exploiting prisoner swap issue to destabilize Ukraine by contacting POW families – ombudsman

Russia is using the issue of prisoner exchange to undermine the situation in Ukraine, telling relatives that it is allegedly ready to return the soldiers, while Kyiv is blocking the process, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets reported on Telegram on March 16.

16 March 2024, 07:55 PM

Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights