On 13 November, Luxembourg will take over the presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers from Lithuania for the next six months. The handover will take place at a meeting of representatives of the 46 member states of the Strasbourg-based organisation. Lithuania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis, will take stock of Lithuania’s presidency and will give the floor to Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, who will present the priorities for his country’s presidency. “At the initiative of the Lithuanian Presidency, two Ukrainian women from Yahidne village (Chernihiv region of Ukraine) will come to testify” to the crimes committed by Russian troops, a statement from the Council of Europe reads. In spring 2022, Russian troops detained 300 civilians crammed in a school basement for over a month.