What Ukraine demands Two groups of Ukrainian accusations and demands to Russia regarding terrorism in Donbas and discrimination in occupied Crimea correspond to two UN conventions against the financing of terrorism and against racial...
The report calls the occupied Crimean peninsula not just one of the world’s largest military bases but also a powerful element of the Russian defense-related industry. “By now, the Crimean enterprises are almost fully...
Is the conflict domestic or international? In December 2018, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Ukraine-related part of their “Report on Preliminary Examination Activities” has repeated the...
Today, Russians are not even hiding Russia’s participation in the war in Eastern Ukraine. In a recent interview, battalion commander of the Prizrak Brigade (“LNR”), Aleksei Markov (a Russian citizen from Moscow) admits that...
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of their ancestors from their homeland, an action in which tens of thousands died in Central Asian exile and from which...
The Ukrainian government has been working quietly but consistently through international courts to “return Russia to the framework of international law,” Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal says, an effort that has not attracted as...
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...
Even before his inauguration, incoming Ukrainian president has launched an information war against Moscow, calling on others in the post-Soviet countries to see what is “possible” if one does what Ukraine is doing and offering...
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...
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...
