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Starting March 10, 2022 the team of Maidan Monitoring Information Center documents Russian war crimes in Kharkiv city and region.

We are collecting digital forensic evidence as a part of pretrial criminal investigations to help the Ukrainian state investigators.

We monitor Russian war crimes to prevent future death.

Why We Started Documenting War Crimes

The project was launched as a result of a personal experience of a Secretary of our organization Serhii Petrov, read more – Countering Russian aggression with a camera and continued by our Chair Nataliya Zubar, read more Ukrainian Woman Has Footage She Hopes Will Be Used In War Crime Trials

Later other members of our organization and partners joined the team.

Milestones of War Crimes Accountability We Contributed To

A criminal indictment for war of aggression against Lieutenant General Andrii Ruzynskyi

May 20, 2023, Prosecutor General of Ukraine filed a criminal indictment for war of aggression against Lieutenant General Andrii Ruzynskyi, Commander of the 11th Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet of the Western Military District of the Russian Armed Forces. Between March and July, 2022, Ruzynskyi served as the Commander of the Russian military unit “Balakliya” and ordered Russian troops under his command to break through Ukraine’s sovereign border for the purpose of initiating the full-scale invasion, capture and occupation of the Kharkiv region.

Members of Maidan Monitoring Information Center team participated as involved specialists in the investigative and procedural actions of gathering evidence and in further analytical work on the processing of materials that formed the basis of this criminal proceeding, which is being investigated by investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.

Five senior officers charged with the first act of nuclear terrorism in human history

February 13, 2024, a criminal indictment for the first act of nuclear terrorism in human history was filed against five high-ranking and senior officer of the Russian army for shelling the territory of the Kharkiv Physical and Technical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which Russian troops systematically attacked from March 6 to the beginning of September 2022.

This indictment is a result of an enormous amount of work of investigators, prosecutors, experts and independent specialists, which lasted for almost two years, in which the Kharkiv team of Maidan Monitoring Information Center was involved, in particular Serhiy Petrov and Nataliya Zubar. For us, this is a great honour, a great challenge and a civic duty.

September 2024, this criminal case was moved to court. Damage to the nuclear facility could have caused an environmental disaster. The digital evidence, collected, among others, by experts from the Maidan Monitoring Information Center, is used to prove the criminal intent of the Russian officers.

Documentary films

Checkpoint Little Rohan

“Checkpoint Little Rohan” documentary follows the activities of three boys ages 9, 10 and 11 years in the village of Mala (Little) Rohan of the Kharkiv region in Ukraine during August-September 2022. The kids survived the occupation of their village by the Russian Army for one month in February-March 2022. Click for more details.

Under the Nuclear Shadow

In the northern part of Kharkiv city, 22 kilometers from the Ukrainian-Russian border, lies the verdant campus of Piatyhatky. Since 2022, this region housing nuclear facilities has been subjected to consistent Russian bombardment. Amidst this ongoing threat of nuclear catastrophe, how do the residents endure? How do they perceive their future? Click for more details.

Documentary films of our colleagues

Our team helped in the creation of the film “The Porcelain War” (97th Academy Awards Nominee, Best documentary Feature), and our contribution is noted in the final credits.

Several films of our Czech and Polish colleagues, in the creation of which our team took part, are to be released.

Our Analysis

We produce analytical reports based on the results of our work.

Useful explainer

NOTICE in criminal proceedings related to the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Ukraine

The notice contains a brief systematic description of the pretrial investigation in criminal proceedings carried out in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine, the definitions of the main terms, rights and obligations of the parties, as well as the assignment of functions between the investigator and the prosecutor.

Our Partners

Since March 29, 2022, we have been helped by our long-term partners – the Czech NGO Team 4 Ukraine. Czech criminologists, analysts, photographers and journalists help us. It was they who convinced the Czech Criminology Society to donate us the Autel drone, it was they who donated us the first car during the life of our organization. Together with them, we are documenting the long-term consequences of the war in Ukraine for culture and nature.

Together with them, we prepared and presented the tenth edition of our photo exhibition “Fracture” in the European Parliament.

Our organisation participates in the environmental coalition “Stop Poisoning Ukraine” and receives expert help from partners in the investigation of crimes of ecocide (Article 441 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

Starting 2023, our efforts are supported by our dear friends from the USA Sunflower F.U.N.D.

Our Photo Exhibitions

Together with our Czech partners Team 4 Ukraine, 10 editions of our photo exhibition “Fracture” about the war crimes of the Russian Federation were produced. These photos were exhibited during the Crimean Platform conference in Bucharest, in the parliaments of the Czech Republic and Poland, in the European Parliament and in various cities of Ukraine, Germany, Britain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Moldova.

Our exhibition as a backdrop for a Crimea Platform conference in Bucharest, April 13, 2023. Photo by Adam Sybera

Deputy Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland Bogdan Borusewicz at the exhibition’s opening in Gdańsk. | Photo: Leszek Biernacki

Member of the European Parliament Marketa Gregorova opens the Fracture Exhibition in the European Parliament. Read more here

You can see the photos from the presentations of the exhibition in this album.

Visit the exhibition startpage FRACTURE. Documents from Kharkiv

Meet The Team

Near Kharkiv. June 8, 2023. The team trains to use drones (right to left) Serhii Petrov, Yevhen Tytarenko, Kateryna and Oleksii Svid, Yuliia Hush and the investigative dog Bunny. Drone photo by Yevhen Tytarenko.

<strong>Zhenya "Snigovyk" ("Snowman") Tytarenko</strong> photographs a shot iron helmet in the village of Vilkhivka, Kharkiv region. May 12, 2022. Photo by Nataliya Zubar. — **Zhenya “Snigovyk” (“Snowman”) Tytarenko** photographs a shot iron helmet in the village of Vilkhivka, Kharkiv region. May 12, 2022. Photo by Nataliya Zubar.

**Juliia Hush** is shooting a film on a burnt tank. Photo by Yevhen Tytarenko. September 1, 2022, Little Rohan.

**Oleksii Svid** shows Czech journalists a broken tram depot. February 15, 2023, Kharkiv. Photo by Kateryna Svid.

**Kateryna Svid** enters destroyed school in Piatykhatki district. Photo by Yevhen Tytarenko. October 29, 2022 року, Kharkiv.

**Nataliya Zubar** films a destroyed school. February 12, 2023. Slatine. Photo by Yevhen Tytarenko.

**Serhii Petrov** is filming the destroyed house he lived in. August 2, 2022. Photo by Yevhen Tytarenko.

**Adam Sybera** with a rocket in Slatine. December 12, 2022. Photo by Petr Pojman

Izyum. September 16, 2022. **Petr Pojman** near the Russian tank. Photo by Yevhen Tytarenko.

Izyum. April 8, 2025. Marketa Vorel in the bombed-out apartment of a woman she found in the Czech Republic through Facebook. Photo by Nataliya Zubar.

Dovhenke/ February 16, 2024. **Nataliya Zubar** near the bomb crater 60 meter wide. Selfie.

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Who Supports Our Work

Since April 2023, this project has been supported only by private donations. Every contribution is important to us and we are always short of money, click to see how you can support us.

Starting July 2022 until April 2023 this project have funded by Crown Agents International Development.

We express our deepest gratitude to the European Union and the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation for supporting this project during the initial stage (March – June, 2022).

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