The Odesa appellate court made the first-instance court start the case of the Roma victims of pogroms in Loshchynivka.

The lawyer, head of the Roma Human Rights Center Volodymyr Kondur told about the first victory in the criminal case on antiRoma pogroms in the village of Loshchynivka, Odesa region, on 18 January 2016. The court reversed the decision of the investigator of Prosecutor's office on non-recognition of the Roma as victims.

Loschynivka Village Council (Odessa region) became one of the winners of anti-award "Discriminator - 2016". On December 10 in Kyiv the names of persons and organizations that during the year most grossly violated the principles of equality and non-discrimination in Ukraine were announced by Coalition for Combating Discrimination in Ukraine. 

Children from Roma families forcibly evicted at the end of September 2016 from the village of Loshchynivka in Odesa region not only left without a roof over thier heads, but have to meet the cold season without warm clothes. Public activists urged to help the affected families. 

On September 8 the Coalition of Roma NGOs submitted an official letter to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. It comprises 2 following suggestions: to create an institution that will be responsible for the implementation of the Roma strategy 2020 and to consider the possibility of introducing a new post of Ombudsman for Roma minorities.