Fighting was concentrated in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions last week. Russian forces gained full control of Mariupol.
Olha Polishchuk is the Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia Research Manager at ACLED and has been with the organization since September 2018, originally hired as the Ukraine Researcher. Currently, she manages a team of researchers covering countries across Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia and oversees the dataset and analysis work for the region. Olha holds an LLM in Law of the Sea from the Arctic University of Norway, an LLM in Human Rights Law with International Law from the University of Kent, and a bachelor's degree from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She has experience working in the private law sector, with Ukrainian government institutions, and human rights NGOs.
Fighting was concentrated in the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions last week. Russian forces gained full control of Mariupol.
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