After the change of powers in Kiev in February 2014, the hotheads began to claim that Ukraine was moving in the direction of building a mono-ethnic state. Despite the action taken by the public officials to mitigate such extremist statements, the mass demonstrations flooded the Southeast Ukraine, and most importantly, Donbas, the most passionate part of the country. The civil war unleashed. Unfortunately, the new government has chosen a forceful resolution of the ethnic conflict by declaring the anti-terrorist operation against the Russian-speaking rebels in Donbass. It is only after concluding the Minsk agreements with the active involvement of the OSCE in September this year, did Kiev recognise that there was no military solution to this problem. There is still a lack of a clear programme to stop the violence and atrocity crimes. We, human rights activists, believe that it is impossible to resolve the Ukraine’s crisis without decentralisation of power and redistribution of resources, whatever form it may take: federalisation, autonomy, or other. This would allow the regions to use the actual economic output of their productivity. The right to use minority languages, including the Russian language, on a par with the state language should be guaranteed in all spheres of life in the regions inhabited by the minority language-speaking population. We also rely on the aid from the UN agencies, especially the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, whose representatives are now working actively in Ukraine, in ending the war and the massive violations of human rights, including minority rights, which are very vulnerable in this armed conflict.