Russian occupation forces released Fr Bohdan and Fr Ivan (with 8 other Ukrainian civilians) in a prisoner exchange on 28 June 2024 after 19 months in detention. Russian occupation forces have also apparently murdered religious leaders they have seized. On 13 February 2024, unknown men from the occupation forces seized 59-year-old Fr Stepan Podolcha

In another case, Rustem Asanov, a Crimean Tatar, was Imam of the Muslim Birlik (Unity) Mosque community in the village of Shchastlivtseve in Henichesk District in Ukraine’s Kherson Region. Russian occupation forces detained and tortured him in March 2022. After they released him, Russian occupation forces came to inspect the Mosque’s contents.

Freedom of religion or belief violations in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory are part of a much broader pattern of serious human rights violations of all kinds committed by Russian occupation forces, as the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has documented in detail fr

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Public debt-to-GDP ratios remained high, with increasing reliance on external borrowing to meet fiscal obligations. Despite efforts to improve investor confidence, actual foreign direct investment inflows in 2024 fell short of projections. The Federal Board of Revenue also failed to meet its tax collection targets despite imposing heavy taxes. Paki