The Verkhovna Rada has proposed to create temporary commission to investigate crimes against journalists and other employees of media entities committed by Russia’s armed formations.

The draft resolution No. 14198 was submitted by MP Yevhenia Kravchuk on 7 November 2025.

It proposes to create a Temporary Investigative Commission (TIC) consisting of 13 MPs for one year. Yevhenia Kravchuk (“Servant of the People” faction) is proposed as the commission chair, and MP Yaroslav Yurchyshyn (“Holos” faction) as the deputy chair.

The TIC’s primary tasks are to include:

  • Reviewing the progress of investigations into crimes against journalists and media workers in Ukraine, in particular in the temporarily occupied territories.
  • Verifying details in cases of premediated murder, torture, kidnapping, unlawful detention, and destruction of journalists’ property as documented by law enforcement bodies, international structures, or civil society organisations.
  • Coordinating with the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service, the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications, as well as with specialised civil society organisations.
  • Preparing proposals for improving legislation to provide additional safety guarantees to journalists in combat zones.
  • Assisting international investigations, in particular in cooperation with the OSCE, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, and other institutions.

The proposed composition of the commission is as follows:

  • Mykola Knyazhytskyi (“European Solidarity” faction);
  • Pavlo Bakunets (“Dovira” group);
  • Ihor Huz (“Za Maybutne” group);
  • Serhiy Sobolev (“Batkivshchyna” faction);
  • Mykhailo Papiyev (“Platform for Life and Peace” group);
  • Mykyta Poturayev (“Servant of the People”);
  • Serhiy Ionushas (“Servant of the People”);
  • Dmytro Slynko (“Servant of the People”);
  • Tetyana Tsyba (“Servant of the People”);
  • Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk (“Servant of the People”);
  • Bohdan Yaremenko (“Servant of the People”).

MP Yevhenia Kravchuk hopes that the parliament will adopt this draft resolution next plenary week.

“I hope that the Verkhovna Rada will discuss this issue at the next meeting after approval by the Regulations Committee,” she wrote in a Facebook post on 10 November.

On 5 November 2025, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a resolution approving an address to the UN, EU, and NATO institutions, parliamentary assemblies and leading international journalistic organisations calling for increased political and diplomatic pressure, and sanctions on Russia due to its systematic crimes against journalists and media workers.