On 6 December 2017 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine created a new coal giant – the National Coal Company (NCC). It happened after months of fruitless negotiations in parliament. However, even though the creation of the company...
As Crimea was occupied by Russia at the end of February 2014, Russia established several training camps in Crimea for its militants who were later used to instigate and wage war in the Donbas. After training in one of such camps, an...
On March 15, President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of the NSDC (National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine) to ask it to halt all cargo traffic with the occupied territories in Eastern Ukraine: Due to the escalation...
On February 27, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, terrorist leaders of the uncontrolled territories in the Donbas, delivered an ultimatum, demanding Ukraine to stop the civil trade blockade of the Donbas, threatening to take...
Activists have been blocking several railway lines connecting the Donbas with its occupied parts since January. The blockade created obstacles for transportation of coal for anthracite-fired power plants in Ukraine and of iron ore raw...
On January 25, demobilized soldiers and veterans of Ukrainian volunteer battalions launched a trade blockade of the occupied parts of the Donbas. The economic blockade of the Donbas will hit Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, as the...
After a period of relative stagnation, the situation in Donbas is experiencing the largest escalation in two years. Avdiivka, a small town in the government-controlled outskirts of Donetsk, is seeing the most of it. On the night of 30...
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) revealed one of numerous schemes by which the so-called republic’s leaders receive money from Ukraine, part of which is used to finance armed forces of the “republic” which is waging war...
The key players in the Donbas’ booming smuggling business are politicians, oligarchs, and the criminal underworld. Coal, gold, gasoline, and cigarettes are the main resources the separatists are fighting for in eastern Ukraine, an...
The three-month campaign leading up to the spring presidential elections officially started on 31 December 2018. According to current polls, no single candidate stands out. Among leading candidates, however, most can be classified as...
