Ukraine

Ukraine regularly submits data on hate crimes to ODIHR. In 2019, the National Police of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs worked with ODIHR to publish an information booklet on Categorizing and Investigating Hate Crimes in Ukraine: A Practical Guide. Ukraine's National Human Rights Strategy includes an objective to "create a system for preventing, combatting, documenting and investigating hate crimes". In 2020, a working group co-ordinated by the Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament was created to improve hate crime recording procedures.

SELECT YEAR

OFFICIAL DATA

Year	Hate crimes recorded by police	Prosecuted	Sentenced
2021	Not available	Not available	Not available
2020	203	170	6
2019	256	235	4
2018	178	149	6
2017	163	94	3
2016	144	76	2
2015	157	79	3
2014	33	33	2
2013	Not available	Not available	Not available
2012	3	2	Not available
2011	5	Not available	Not available
2010	5	Not available	Not available
2009	2	Not available	Not available

Hate crime recorded by police

National developments

The Interior Ministry and the Office of the Prosecutor issued a joint instruction to law-enforcement bodies to register crimes committed on the basis racial, ethnic or religious intolerance.

The criminal code was amended to include aggravating circumstances in sentences for crimes motivated by “racial, national or religious intolerance”. The types of crimes added in the amendments include murder, intentional grievous bodily harm, intentional bodily injury of medium gravity and threatening to kill.

KEY OBSERVATION

No information is available.

Incidents reported by civil society, international organizations and the Holy See

Reports

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

The Diversity Initiative recorded 26 assaults. Seventeen incidents were reported to have been brought to the attention of the police. The Congress of National Communities of Ukraine reported 37 assaults. Victims included persons from Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Caucasus.

Anti-Semitic hate crime

The Congress of National Communities reported an anti-Semitic assault, two cases of arson and 17 cases of vandalism. The Jewish Foundation of Ukraine reported three assaults, six cases of vandalism and 20 instances anti-Semitic graffiti. The Stephen Roth Institute reported 20 violent incidents.

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

Racist and xenophobic hate crime

UNHCR reported anti-Semitic and xenophobic graffiti painted on the office of the NGO Chernihiv Civic Committee for the Protection of Human Rights. The incident was reported to the police.