Religious discrimination. On September 8, 2015, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released its 11th report on the situation of human rights in Ukraine. Under the heading “Freedom of Religion or Belief,” it reported: “In a statement issued on 20 May, the head of the ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ threatened to ‘brutally fight sects’ and stated it did not recognize any religions apart from Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Islam and Judaism.” The report observed: “The Jehovah’s Witnesses community appears to have been particularly targeted.”
https://www.jw.org/en/news/legal/by-region/ukraine/religious-freedom-under-threat-eastern-regions/
Here's an update.
https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/ukraine/donetsk-peoples-republic-bans-jehovahs-witnesses/
