The decision sparked international outrage and indignation. The Ukrainian Ministry of foreign affairs in its statement called Putin’s decision “one more deliberate step towards demolishing the Minsk Agreements,” “a...
After a media boomlet suggesting Mikhail Babich, the recently recalled Russian ambassador to Minsk, would replace Vladislav Surkov as the Kremlin’s point man on the Donbas, Abkhazia and South Ossetia (charter97.org and iarex.ru), sources...
In late April, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a simplified procedure allowing residents of the so-called “DNR/LNR republics” to obtain Russian passports. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called this step...
Losses of industrial capacities In 2014, the banking sector sustained 53 billion UAH losses ($1.4 billion). Simultaneously, depositors withdrew their deposits worth almost 60 billion UAH ($4.5 billion), which accounted for 13.7% of the...
“Most people who have survived such trauma, who have seen such things, are broken by them… but Yana remains unbreakable.” (quote from the film) The story follows 18-year-old Yana Zinkevych who, when war came to her country...
Markiv’s lawyers say that the last court hearing on April 12 was just another demonstration of the lack of key evidence in Markiv’s involvement in the tragic death of the Italian reporter near Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast. One of the...
Representatives of presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky say that the expansion of the “Normandy format” negotiations to resolve the conflict in the Donbas would be among his first initiatives if he is elected president of Ukraine....
Read also: Two “DNR ministers” surrender to Ukraine. Will the rest follow? In occupied Donetsk, Svitlana Driuk was a local TV propaganda celebrity, who was presented as a peaceful civilian who rose to the defense of her Donbas...
HE WANTED TO BECOME A SOLDIER… Serhiy was born on January 13, 1984 in the town of Oster, Chernihiv Oblast. His mother worked in a kindergarten, and his father was a turner in a factory. Serhiy dreamed of becoming a soldier. “After...
The so-called “Donetsk Peoples Republic” is preparing to liquidate all structures loyal to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine by expelling its priests and seizing their churches, exactly the kind of actions Donetsk...
When Ukrainian prosecutors released audio intercepts that appeared to show the direct involvement of Kremlin top advisor Sergey Glazyev in Russia’s takeover of Crimea and pro-separatist rallies in eastern Ukraine in August 2016, they...
