In 2025, the Mission continued its active work, focusing primarily on people’s needs. Over the course of the year, the Mission:

Processed 3520 appeals from Ukrainian citizens, including Crimeans. The appeals primarily concerned the procedures for obtaining secondary education certificates, issuing Ukrainian passports, providing Ukrainian-format military registration documents to Crimeans of conscription age, protecting property rights, and more.

Additionally, through cooperation with relevant state institutions and non-governmental organisations, we managed to:

• help 20 people, including seven children, leave temporarily occupied Crimea and obtain certificates for return to Ukraine;
• restore pension provisions and establish other social payments for 35 Crimeans;
• issue passport documents, including for citizens outside Ukraine, to 53 citizens from the temporarily occupied peninsula.

Furthermore, the Mission held over 90 meetings and receptions with:

• representatives of foreign diplomatic missions in Ukraine;
• foreign media and journalist delegations from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America;
• foreign parliamentary delegations;
• representatives of international organisations, think tanks, experts, and others.

Prepared over 250 daily monitoring reports on the situation in temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as 48 briefings on the general situation and suspected international crimes. It also developed analytical briefs presented at international platforms of the UN and URC-2025, covering the following topics:

• children (on the use of Crimea as a transit hub for deportation and forced displacement);
• ecology (on the consequences of Russian aggression for the Black Sea ecosystem);
• culture and religion (on the systemic destruction of religious diversity, persecution of Crimean Tatars, the ousting of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and the use of the Russian Orthodox Church as a tool of occupation policy).

Along with this, the Fifth Summit of the International Crimea Platform and the Fourth Parliamentary Summit were held in 2025.

The Fifth Summit was attended by over 60 participants, while the Parliamentary Summit brought together approximately 70 delegations, in both online and offline formats, from approximately 50 countries, including representatives of international parliamentary institutions. Additionally, the third international conference “Crimea Global. Understanding Ukraine through the South” was held. The event drew about 300 participants, both in person and online.

Throughout the year, over 15 locations were launched as part of the “Letters to a Free Crimea” initiative, which aims to remind society about the Ukrainian captives of the Kremlin, and to show political prisoners that people care about them, worry about them, and await their release. In total, around 2,000 letters were written within the project in 2025.

In 2025, the Mission launched an educational and informational platform for residents of the Crimean Peninsula, aimed at providing information on access to Ukrainian education regardless of their location. Furthermore, in collaboration with the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, the Mission developed and implemented a general short-term professional development programme entitled “Public Administration in the De-occupied Territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”. The training was attended by 100 individuals, including 85 civil servants and 15 local government officials.

Among other things, the Mission prepared proposals for state authorities regarding the application of sanctions as a mechanism to protect national interests and respond to violations of international law. For example, in February of this year, the NSDC enacted the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 68/2025 on the application of sanctions. The list included 31 archaeologists, for whom the Mission, together with the NGO “Regional Centre for Human Rights”, prepared information materials and submitted relevant proposals.