Persecution (attacks, violence, killings) OHCHR – UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine (1 August 2021 - 31 January 2022), 28 March 2022 "18. OHCHR is concerned about the complete lack of accountability for past attacks on Roma settlements, including those in the village of Loshchynivka, Odesa region in 2016 and Vilshany, Kharkiv region in 2017. While OHCHR welcomes the increased public reactions of the Ombudsperson’s Office condemning hate speech, it notes the continuing lack of any legislative framework to prohibit incitement to violence, hostility and discrimination… 86. […] OHCHR is concerned about the complete lack of accountability for past attacks on Roma settlements. On 6 December 2021, the Odesa district administrative court rejected the lawsuit filed by Roma individuals who were evicted from Loshchynivka village in August 2016, in which they sought compensation for the decision of the village head to order their eviction and the failure of police to protect the victims. The judgement rejecting the lawsuit was delivered following a retrial of the case after the Supreme Court quashed the April 2019 appeal court judgment granting partially the victims’ claims. 87. Similarly, no one has been held accountable for the 2017 attack in Vilshany, Kharkiv region, in which a Roma man was killed. OHCHR observed that the trial against the two men charged with the murder progressed slowly and the investigation of another alleged perpetrator by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office was closed for the fourth time. 88. OHCHR is concerned about the failure by local authorities to facilitate public participation in decision making on environmental issues in the village of Makukhivka, close to Poltava city. In particular, local authorities have not taken meaningful steps to resolve social and ethnic tensions, as well as address environmental damage and water pollution around an illegal landfill in the village. The landfill, which does not have any official documentation as required by Ukrainian law, allegedly pollutes ground waters and negatively affects the health of those living in the area. Due to low housing prices and income-generating opportunities from manual recycling, there have been increasing numbers of Roma moving to the area and increasing tensions between the local Roma and non-Roma villagers. VII. Leave no one behind – economic and social rights 89. During the reporting period, OHCHR continued monitoring the difficulties facing individuals and vulnerable groups in the enjoyment of socio-economic rights. These include homeless persons, persons with disabilities, Roma, and persons living in rural and conflict-affected areas." US DOS, Report on the human rights situation, Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine (1 August 2021 - 31 January 2022), 28 March 2022 "In self-proclaimed ‘republics’, OHCHR continued to observe a lack of media coverage critical of or different from the official position of the ‘republics’ on various matters. […] OHCHR is concerned about the complete lack of accountability for past attacks on Roma settlements, including those in the village of Loshchynivka, Odesa region in 2016 and Vilshany, Kharkiv region in 2017. […] The landfill, which does not have any official documentation as required by Ukrainian law, allegedly pollutes ground waters and negatively affects the health of those living in the area. […] Due to low housing prices and incomegenerating opportunities from manual recycling, there have been increasing numbers of Roma moving to the area and increasing tensions between the local Roma and non-Roma […] in the vicinity of the police or FSB buildings. […] list of limited exceptions. […] Entry was, inter alia, granted to travellers visiting close family members in Crimea, provided that the latter held Russian Federation citizenship. […] No exception was provided to Ukrainian citizens who own land in Crimea and faced the risk of its forcible sale or nationalization due to Russian Federation restrictions on owning land plots by “foreigners” in “border 13