Lynn Sheehan: We all have to be more focused, committed and adaptable in terms of the advice and assistance that we provide to our Ukrainian partners

An interview with Lynn Sheehan, EUAM Head of Operations

#AgentsofChange – Nina Pelkonen, EUAM Senior Adviser on investigation of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence

EU advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) has been working on gender-based violence for a long time

Sexual violence is a war crime

An OpEd by Antti Hartikainen, EUAM Head of Mission, specially for Ukraiinska Pravda

#AgentsofChange – Valentyna Kukurudzhiak, Prosecutor at Chernivtsi Regional Prosecutor’s Office

“I am the Head of the Preventing and Combating Corruption unit in Chernivtsi. My focus is on administrative offences, for example, conflicts of interest, which could be about inappropriate gifts or combining two jobs. Minor cases can be prosecuted as administrative offences. My unit covers everyone employed by the State, civil servants, deputies and workers […]

#EUAM4Ukraine: “Now wholly redeployed, EUAM experts continue building resilience with their Ukrainian counterparts”

EUAM Ukraine is back! Today, the EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine) concluded the redeployment of all its experts to their duty stations. Close to 300 staff from EU member states and Ukraine now work full-time in Ukraine.

#AgentsofChange – Ove Pettersson, EUAM Adviser and Trainer on Community Policing

“In my previous job experience in an international Mission, we once had a flat tyre. The two men changed the tyre, and the two women waited. I was thinking: ‘Wouldn’t it be more equal if one man and one woman would change the tyre?’ We were all from different EU countries, and I understand that […]

#HeroesofUkraine: The Donetsk Police Communication team risks their lives to inform about war crimes of the Russian aggressor – interview with Oleksandra Havrylko, the Head of the local police communication department

The  horrors currently taking place in Ukraine are sometimes challenging to explain in words. Here it is more appropriate to use videos and photos to show the world what crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine. The Head of Communications of the Police of the Donetsk region Oleksandra Gavrylko and her team do everything possible to […]

Markus Mitterer (EUAM Investigation Expert): Fighting for Truth and Justice

The EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) supports Ukraine’s efforts to investigate and prosecute International Crimes committed in the war. To better understand these efforts, we did a short Q&A with EUAM Senior Advisor on Criminal Investigations Markus Mitterer.

#FieldVision | EUAM Ukraine will stand and work together with Ukraine towards the common goal of moving the country ever closer to the EU

Since 2014, the EU Advisory Mission (EUAM) has advised the Ukrainian civilian security sector reform in the field of law enforcement and the rule of law

#HeroesofUkraine: White Angel will be saving lives as long as there are people in need

Every day, the White Angel, a group of police officers led by Rustam Lukomskyi, goes to the small towns of the Donetsk region near the frontline

#HeroesofUkraine: advocacy expert answers three questions on LGBT+ and human rights in wartime

Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine is a war against a sovereign country but also a war against the values of openness and diversity that the EU is defending and promoting

Statement by the High Representative Josep Borrell on the shelling of the EU Advisory Mission Field office

Today, the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine (EUAM) has obtained credible information that the premises of its Mariupol Field Office were recently hit by Russian shelling. The EUAM office and equipment sustained major damage. No Mission members or contractors were injured.

Ukraine: Statement by the High Representative on the targeting of civilians by Russia

The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the Russian Armed Forces and their proxies continued targeting of Ukraine’s civilian population and civilian infrastructure, as well as their siege of the city of Mariupol.

HR/VP: The future of Europe is being defined now

Last Tuesday we had an important debate in the European Parliament about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the European response.

#AgentsofChange – Vadym Fursa, Senior Lecturer of the Tactical Special Department of the Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs (DSUIA)