Ukrainian birth certificates.30 The remaining 57 percent of children who do not have these certificates are at risk of statelessness because they will not be able to obtain the passport of a Ukrainian citizen. Thus, there is an acute need for an administrative procedure to register births in territories that are not controlled by Ukraine. This would relieve applicants of the need to appeal to a court. Expulsion of Ukrainian Citizens from Russia into the Combat Zone In its practice, ADC Memorial has seen numerous cases where people from territories in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts that are not controlled by Ukraine have been declared violators of residence and/or work rules for foreigners in Russia and charged under article 18.8 and 18.10 of the RF Code of Administrative Offenses, which stipulates penalties in the form of a fine with administrative expulsion from Russia and placement in a temporary detention center for foreign nationals. In many cases, courts that order expulsion commit various irregularities, including disregarding family ties and ignoring both the military actions in eastern Ukraine and the fact that many people from the Donbass region are applying for asylum in Russia. In September 2017, the Kalinsky District Court of Saint Petersburg issued two simultaneous decisions on the expulsion of V., a woman from Luhansk Oblast in Ukraine: one for violation of migration rules and one for performing illegal work activities in Russia. However, V. was never duly notified that there were two administrative cases against her. The court that issued the decision did not take account for the fact that V. was the common-law wife of a Russian man who, as a cancer sufferer, was in need of her care, or for the fact that expulsion to Luhansk Oblast presented a threat to her life because of the continuing armed conflict there. V. was placed in a foreign national detention center to secure her expulsion. One month later, V.’s attorney was able to successfully appeal this decision: in cancelling the decision, the Saint Petersburg City Court took into account Article 3 of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and Article 3 of the European 30 UNHCR data, https://www.unhcr.org/ua/wp-content/uploads/ sites/38/2018/10/2018-09-UNHCR-Ukraine-Statelessness-Update-FINAL-EN.pdf 17