Considering the lack of reaction by the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine towards supporting facilities in the anti-terrorist operation zone, the Commissioner sent multiple acts of response to the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Despite the Decree of the President of Ukraine #875 dated 14.11.2014 “On urgent measures for stabilization of social and economic situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions”, none of the facilities of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine have been transferred to the territory controlled by Ukrainian government, including those in close proximity with hostilities. Therefore, staff and detainees are under constant threat at these facilities. This negligence of behalf of officials led to, for instance, tragic events at Chornukhyne correctional colony (#23) in Luhansk region. According to available information, 380 convicts had to leave the facility due to constant fire from the so-called LPR. As a result, some convicted person died, and only 83 of them returned to the facilities. Another 23 persons arrived at Ukrainian checkpoints. They are currently in Artemivsk remand prison. Information from ministries and agencies, state regional administrations on measures in response to recommendations from the Commissioner for Human Rights on protection of rights and freedoms of persons in places of detention in ATO zone Unfortunately, a large number of people in penitentiary facilities, institutions of the systems of education, health care, and social protection, stayed on the temporarily occupied territory due to delay in fulfillment of the Commissioner’s recommendations on evacuation. For example, the Ministry of Social Policy explained that it is impossible to evacuate care recipients without their consent and physical possibility of transferring bedridden patients. According to boarding facilities of the social protection system, as of 1 February 2015, there were 1 596 vacant places in boarding facilities. Information on their location was transferred to social protection departments of Donetsk and Lugansk regional state administrations. Donetsk Regional State Administration transferred 1.5 thousand residents of boarding facilities from the zone of active ATO hostilities to boarding facilities for veterans and persons with disabilities of the social protection system in the region and Ukraine. The transfer took place pursuant to personal applications of the citizens. According to the letter to the Commissioner for Human Rights from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine #1/10-3676 dated 10.11.2014, residents of Makarenko vocational training school of social rehabilitation in Makiyivka were relocated to Balakhiv school of social rehabilitation. All students are provided with proper conditions for living, studies and upbringing. Children have sufficient supply of food, warm clothing and footwear, as well as medical care. There is heating in premises of educational institutions. In addition, according to the letter from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine #1/10-3676 dated 25.12.2014, children from Yasynuvata general education health care boarding school of I-II tiers #14 for children with scoliosis (Donetsk region) were transferred to Oleksiyevo-Druzhkivka general education health care boarding school of I-III tiers of the same profile. Children have sufficient supply of food, warm clothing and footwear, as well as medical care. In response to the letter to the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 9 February 2015, the Inter-Agency Cooperation Headquarters for Social Protection of Ukrainian citizens relocating 22