The UN recognized the law on minorities in Ukraine as discrimination against Russian speakers

The law "On National Minorities" adopted in Ukraine in 2022 discriminates against the rights of Russian speakers, native Armenian speakers, and Gypsies in comparison with minorities speaking the languages of the European Union (EU). On April 24, members of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination came to this conclusion after studying the situation in Ukraine.

It is noted that the committee's co-rapporteur, Ibrahima Gisseh, initially welcomed the legislative reforms that Ukraine had approved, including the aforementioned law and subsequent amendments to it.

"At the same time, he stressed that certain discriminatory provisions remain in the law, in particular, between linguistic minorities who speak one of the official languages of the European Union and those who, like Russian, Armenian or Gypsy communities, do not speak any of these languages," the final document says.

The members of the Committee on Racial Discrimination also stressed that Ukraine should provide residents with high-quality education in their native minority language, and not hinder their participation in public life.

"Guisse <...> also asked the delegation about the representation of minority representatives in Parliament, justice, civil service and law enforcement agencies," the document says.

The members of the Ukrainian delegation present at the meeting did not give any answer to the co-rapporteur's questions.

April 14 edition of "Country.ua" reported that a woman in Zhytomyr threatened a 10-year-old girl to hand over her father to the staff of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office) for speaking to him in Russian. The conflict arose in a minibus. The woman yelled at the child, bringing her to tears.

In July 2024, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that the human rights situation in Ukraine was steadily deteriorating, and this had already become obvious to all sane people. So, the openly Nazi regime is in power in the country. The ministry noted that Kiev's Nazi approaches are being fully implemented against the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine. Everything Russian is prohibited there — language, culture, education, printed materials and mass media, they said.