Here is how Vasyl Piddubnyi expresses this idea. Piddubnyi himself is a volunteer fighter, a writer, and editor of the three volume work, A Word About War: Why veteran’s literature? 1. Writing is a form of stress relief, according to...
French journalist Paul Gogo, who was in Donbas with William Roguelon (key prosecution witness in the Markiv trial) and who Roguelon phoned during the gunfire and shelling in Sloviansk, called the sentence of the Pavia court “quite...
During the hearing, the judge gave defendant Vitaliy Markiv the opportunity to make a final statement. The soldier said that he would not go into more detail because his lawyers had explained everything in previous court hearings. “I am...
Rapetti refuted the prosecution’s accusation of Markiv’s complicity in the killing of Italian photographer Andrea Rochelli and his translator Andriy Mironov in Donbas in May, 2014. The lawyer focused on analyzing the expertise results,...
As per BBC Ukraine, Tsemakh’s daughter and his Kyiv-based attorney Roman Hontarev insist that former “DNR” operative, 58-year-old Soviet-Afghan war veteran Volodymyr Tsemakh, was detained on 27 June in his apartment in...
On 28 June, Ukrainian top Minsk negotiator Leonid Kuchma visited the location to inspect the withdrawal and an army press officer told at a press briefing: “Today after we received guarantees from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission...
Ukraine’s memorandum comprised 17,500 pages and weighed 90 kilos. A special cart was used to transport the documents: The fundamental reasoning of the Ukrainian case is two-fold: First, to prove that DNR and LNR (Donetsk and Luhansk...
In his hour-long argument, Niccolo Bertolini Clerici, representing the interests of Ukraine, underlined the main charges, namely Markiv’s complicity in the death of two foreigners near occupied Sloviansk. He noted that among the 30...
The attorneys of the civilian plaintiffs – Rocchelli’s family and Italian journalism organizations – addressed their closing arguments to the jury. They expressed their support for the prosecution’s accusation, namely that...
Read also: Everything you wanted to know about the Minsk peace deal, but were afraid to ask Former Ukrainian President (1994-2005) Leonid Kuchma was a chief Ukrainian envoy in the Trilateral Contact Group in 2014-2018. It was he who had...
A report on how Russia pursues hybrid war to destabilize Ukraine has been published on 16 July 2019 at the UK-based Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest independent defense and security think tank. It is the first major...
