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Alex is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He is a graduate student studying political and military history. He is an avid consumer of Russian propaganda.
During the Cold War, westerners dealing with the Soviet Union grew frustrated at the automatic Soviet response to comments that were even slightly critical towards the USSR. The Soviets would say “what about …” before bringing up...
On Thursday at around 1:30 PM local time there was a car bomb attack in Novooleksiivka, Kherson oblast, about 30 km north of the border with occupied Crimea. One person was killed, four were injured. According to an initial report, the...
A week ago the SBU announced the capture of a terrorist cell that was based in Odessa and targeting the south-Ukrainian Kherson Oblast. According to the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), the operatives were prepared by the Russian...
For over a year Russian propaganda pushed the story of an anti-Ukrainian “resistance” movement in Kharkiv. This guerrilla army known as the “Kharkiv Partisans” supposedly scored major successes in sabotaging the...
The Ukrainian pro-Russian politician Medvedchuk told the Spanish magazine El Pais that, if the Minsk agreements cannot be fulfilled, perhaps it would be better for the “spirit” of the Minsk agreements and set up some kind of...
Yesterday morning a grenade exploded at an office of the Crimean Tatar Majlis organization in Kherson in Southern Ukraine. Some reports say it was an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade.) Just the door of the office was damaged, however, this is...
Several well-known Russian nationalists and Stalinists have formed the “Committee of January 25th” a new “movement” to “prevent Russia’s collapse” and to “pursue a policy of reunification of...
The Ukrainian law banning almost all trade with Russian-occupied Crimea is now in force. Activists began taking down their Crimean blockade checkpoints in December, and according to the Crimean Tatar leader Lenur Islyamov they have largely...
The blockade and blackout of Crimea got the Kremlin’s attention. Putin may be preparing a response to expand his hybrid war to Kherson Oblast. Russian propaganda trumpeted the formation of supposed “self defense groups”...
Could Russian irregulars capture Zmiinyi Island and blockade Ukraine? Russia is trying to seize still more of Ukraine, but this time at sea. The current object of Russian aggression is the Odeske natural gas field, located in the Black...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
