Yulia Gorbunova

Yulia Gorbunova is Ukraine and Russia researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia Division. She also covers Belarus. She has most recently covered the crisis in Ukraine, where she worked extensively covering the armed conflict in the east and human rights abuses in Crimea, including enforced disappearances, prosecution and detention of Crimean Tatar and pro-Ukraine activists and abuses by paramilitary groups.