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Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova signed two new communications to be filed at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The communications concern the "marches of prisoners of war" in occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the destruction of bridges by the occupiers in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

"We have held the first meeting of the International Council of Experts on Crimes Committed amid Armed Conflict with the participation of its foreign members. This advisory body will make us more effective in investigating and prosecuting for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Crimea and Donbas," Venediktova posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

She called it symbolic that the activity of the council "began with the signing of two new communications to be filed at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. One of them was prepared by prosecutors of the War Department at the Prosecutor General's Office, the other by the Donetsk and Luhansk regional prosecutor's offices together with the Global Rights Compliance LLP and the Luhansk regional human rights center Alternative."

According to Venediktova, the communication, prepared by the Prosecutor General's Office, concerns the facts of public humiliation of Ukrainian prisoners of war detained by representatives of illegal armed formations of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic".

We drew the attention of the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC to three most flagrant incidents: the "POW parade" on August 24, 2014, which involved 53 detained service members; the capture of 101 members of the Donbas special battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine; the "POW parade / march" on January 22, 2015, involving 20 detained service members. Our soldiers were marched through the occupied Donetsk and filmed by Russian media. They were subjected to physical violence in order to publicly punish them and to show the media their helpless state. Prisoners of war were constantly threatened with murder, and the presence of the armed members of illegal armed formations further convinced them that the threats would be implemented."

Prosecutors believe that "these facts must be preliminarily classified as a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, namely, committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment."

Another communication concerns the attacks on bridges and the destruction of bridges in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts affected by the armed hostilities. These are data on 43 incidents in the period from May 2014 to January 2019. These facts can be qualified by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC as war crimes under Article 8 of the Rome Statute, namely: intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects during an international armed conflict or destructing enemy property during an international armed conflict.

According to Venediktova, both communications underscore that the International Criminal Court has the appropriate jurisdiction to open an investigation into the alleged war crimes.

In total, 24 communications have already been filed to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC.

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DUBLIN, October 06, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Ukraine: Data Centre Landscape - 2021 to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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The Ukraine Government in February 2021 revealed plans to build large Data Centres with 250 MW up to 500 MW of power alongside nuclear power stations. The facilities are to be used for crypto-currency mining and according to the state-owned energy utility Energoatom could consume up to 2 to 3 GW of power.

In 2020 a contract was signed between Energoatom and H2 LLC to build a USD $700 million Data Centre facility at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. There is also a plan to build a Data Centre next to the Rivne nuclear power plant with power of from 250 MW up to 500 MW, with construction to start during 2022.

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KYIV/MOSCOW, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Ukraine called on the United States and Germany on Friday to impose sanctions on Russia's Gazprom (GAZP.MM), which it accused of using energy as a weapon after the energy giant implemented a transit deal with Hungary that deprives Kyiv of gas supplies.

Under the terms of a long-term supply deal with Budapest that kicked in on Friday, Gazprom will no longer ship its gas to Hungary via Ukraine, but will send it via Serbia and Austria instead.

That deprives Ukraine of transit revenues and also means it can no longer import reverse flow gas via Hungary, which it has been doing since 2015 as a way of not buying gas directly from Russia.

Ties with Moscow have been in crisis since its annexation of Crimea in 2014 and backing for a separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine.

Yuriy Vitrenko, the head of Ukraine's Naftogaz, called on Washington and Germany to honour what he said were pledges to get tough with Moscow made in the context of the separate Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany.

"The Kremlin is doing this on purpose. It's not even sabre rattling, it's the obvious use of gas as a weapon," Vitrenko said on Facebook.

"A joint statement from the United States and Germany said that if the Kremlin used gas as a weapon, there would be an appropriate response. We are now waiting for the imposition of sanctions on a 100% subsidiary of Gazprom, the operator of Nord Stream 2."

He was referring to an agreement between Berlin and Washington on Nord Stream 2 struck in July. read more

The dispute comes at a sensitive time for Russia, which wants Germany to certify the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany now that it has been completed. Russia faces accusations from Kremlin critics that it is trying to speed up that approval process by deliberately not doing enough to supply Europe with gas during an energy crunch that has seen spot gas prices soar.

Russia denies the allegations.

There was no immediate response from Washington or Berlin to Vitrenko's call. The Kremlin dismissed Ukrainian criticism as unfounded and politicised.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was fulfilling all its obligations under existing natural gas contracts.

"There have been and will be accusations against Russia, the majority if which are politicised," Peskov said, when asked about Ukraine's complaints.

"The main thing in this situation is that we are consistently fulfilling our obligations."

Gazprom did not respond to a request for comment.

'SHOCKING RISE' IN GAS PRICES

Russian gas supplies via the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which traverses Poland, fell on Friday by almost 77% from Thursday, data from grid operator Gascade showed, as Gazprom booked only a third of the capacity available for October. read more

The Russian company has repeatedly said it is supplying customers with gas in full compliance with existing contracts and that additional supplies could be provided once Nord Stream 2 is launched. read more

Gazprom's natural gas exports outside the former Soviet Union rose 15.3% year on year in the first nine months of 2021 to 145.8 billion cubic metres (bcm), the Russian gas producer said on Friday.

Ukraine is hoping that the European Union, of which it is not a member, will intervene and rein in Gazprom.

"The monopolisation of gas routes by Gazprom, which we are now observing, raises the question of the fundamental principles of the functioning of the EU (European Union) gas markets - competition and transparency," said Sergiy Makogon, the head of the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System operator.

"The strengthening of the dominant position of one player and their use of leverage for obviously political purposes against the backdrop of a shocking rise in gas prices in Europe must be stopped," he said.

Ukraine has opposed Russia's new gas deal with Hungary, calling it this week a "purely political, economically unreasonable decision". It has asked the EU's executive to assess whether it respects European energy law. read more

Kyiv is also lobbying the West to try to prevent the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which bypasses Ukraine, from starting up.

German utility Uniper, part of the group of Western companies supporting Nord Stream 2, said on Friday it did not expect the pipeline to help ease the tight global gas market this winter as an operating licence is unlikely to come quickly. read more

UKRAINE AND HUNGARY AT ODDS

The row over the gas deal has spilled into a bilateral dispute between Kyiv and Budapest, which are already at odds over the use of the Hungarian language in Ukrainian schools.

Hungary accused Ukraine of meddling, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday dismissed Ukraine's criticism of the gas supply agreement. read more

Orban, who faces his first competitive election next year after three landslide victories since 2010, said that without the gas deal Hungarians would have to pay much higher prices.

"We need gas. This is the reality. You (the Ukrainians) need to agree with the Russians," Orban told public radio.

Reporting by Natalia Zinets and Andrew OsbornAdditional reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin, Dmitry Antonov and Tom Balmforth in Moscow and Krisztina Than in BudapestWriting by Matthias Williams and Andrew OsbornEditing by Alexander Smith and Frances Kerry

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Overview of the role of Christmas in Ukraine

Traditional Ukrainian Christmas festivities start on Christmas Eve, which is celebrated on 6 January, as reckoned by the Julian calendar. The Christmas celebrations end on 19 January, the date of Epiphany, or Yordan in Ukrainian, by the Julian calendar.[4]

As of 2017, 25 December, Christmas day by the Gregorian calendar, became an official government holiday in Ukraine. The Eastern Orthodox Church and Ukrainian Greek Catholic Churches predominantly follow the Julian Calendar, and 7 January is also a public holiday in Ukraine.[5][6] In December 2020, the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, said that changing the date of Christmas to 25 December in Ukraine is possible after both the church and the faithful are ready for such a decision, after conducting educational work. It was stated that the postponement of the Nativity of the Lord would entail a change in the dates of all fixed holidays to 13 days ago.[7] In December 2020, the head of the UGCC, Patriarch Sviatoslav, stated that the Greek Catholic Church would resolve this issue "together with our Orthodox brothers." He also noted that this issue is not dogmatic, it should overcome church divisions, not cause new ones, and in his opinion, the transition to celebrating Christmas in a new style 25 December, should be initiated by the laity.

Christmas Eve, or as its called Sviatyi Vechir or Sviatvechir in Ukrainian ("Holy Evening") is filled with numerous customs and rituals. Traditions include decorating house and dinner table with special attributes (a symbolic sheaf of wheat called the didukh, garlic, hay, and others), performing koliadky ('carols') and so on. Each ritual has its own meaning and purpose, as such a few wisps of hay on the embroidered tablecloth as a reminder of the manger in Bethlehem. One prominent customs of the night is a special supper, called Sviata Vecheria ("Holy Supper").[citation needed]

Whole family brings together to have a dinner which includes 12 dishes. These twelve dishes traditionally do not contain meat, milk, or eggs when served for this meal. [8]Kutia (sweet grain pudding) is traditionally served at the Ukrainian Christmas dinner table. It is often the first dish in the traditional twelve-dish Christmas-Eve supper and is rarely served at other times of the year.[9]

At the end of the Sviata Vechera the family often sings carols (koliadky, singular koliadka). In many communities the ancient Ukrainian tradition of caroling is carried on by groups of young people and members of organizations and churches calling at homes and collecting donations. Well-known carol is "Boh predvichnyi narodyvsia".[10]

When the children see the first star in the eastern evening sky, the dinner may begin. In farming communities the head of the household brings in a sheaf of wheat called the didukh which represents the importance of the ancient and rich wheat crops of Ukraine, the staff of life through the centuries. Didukh means literally "grandfather spirit" so it symbolizes the family's ancestors. In city homes a few stalks of golden wheat in a vase are often used to decorate the table, they also decorate the dinner table with garlic.

A shopka is a traditional portable nativity scene used to represent nativity and other figures in a puppet form.

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