08 October 2025

The Mission’s Team Participated in the OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw

The Head of the Crimea Platform Department, Nelia Grynyshyn, delivered a statement during the plenary session of the OSCE Human Dimension Conference, which is taking place in Warsaw from 6 to 17 October 2025.

She emphasized that, as a result of the occupation, the Crimean Peninsula has turned into a territory where independent journalism no longer exists, as professional activity equals risk, and objective reporting may cost one’s freedom. Russia has effectively destroyed freedom of speech and peaceful assembly in the occupied Crimea. Ukrainian media outlets have been shut down, independent journalists and civic activists face persecution, and any dissent is suppressed through repressive measures.

In her address, Nelia Grynyshyn stressed that the occupation practices Russia began testing in Crimea in 2014 – and has continued to implement in the newly occupied territories of Ukraine – pose a threat that no country in the world is protected from today.

Concluding her speech, the Head of the Crimea Platform Department referred to the recently adopted PACE resolution, calling on the international community to intensify efforts aimed at freeing Ukrainian journalists.

Photo: OSCE/Piotr Dziubak