systemic violations of many human

of religious communities was imposed, and of the 1,156 religious communities which had Ukrainian legal status only about 400 had gained Russian legal status by early 2016, when the re-registration deadline expired. Serious systemic violations of many human rights also took place in the eastern parts of Ukraine’s Donbas Region before Russia’s February 2022 renewed invasion. Among the freedom of religion or belief violations documented by Forum 18 in the occupied Luhansk areas up to the February 2022 renewed invasion are the banning by the State Security Ministry (SSM) secret police of all Ukrainian Baptist Union communities, despite this being illegal under LPR law as no court order was apparently made; สล็อต