Since Russia’s attack on Ukrainian ships and capture of 24 sailors on 25 November 2018, Ukraine has been trying to receive international recognition for the captives being prisoners of war. The PACE resolution 2259 (2019) adopted on 24...
The international community must do everything possible to save the Ukrainian sailors Russian forces took prisoner because Vladimir Putin is behaving toward them in exactly the same way Stalin treated his enemies in 1937, accusing them of...
Read also: Russian attack on Ukrainian ships near Kerch Strait – full chronology On its YouTube channel, the SBU shared the corresponding records presented by SBU Deputy Head Oleh Frolov at the briefing. SBU operatives “used...
What happened on November 25 in the Kerch Strait is an obvious act of military aggression, and this fact is clear even to Russians. The international community’s response to Russia’s aggression has been unequivocal, and Putin has...
Commander of the guard ship “Don” reports to HQ, “I pushed it the Ukrainian tugboat the second time, I tore its board a little bit along the ship feed, I have the thoughts, f*ck, to beat the battleships Ukrainian armored...
The Ukrainian patrol ship “Hryhoriy Kuropiatnykov” slowly leaves the port of Odesa. Aboard the vessel, there are more people than usual: military prosecutors, representatives of the Ukrainian oil and gas sector, and an assault group of...
The Kremlin uses a variety of instruments to indirectly influence the media in the Black Sea Region countries (Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia). This conclusion was voiced over in Kyiv during the round-table “Diagnosing...
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...
If Russian Forces Come by Sea: The Odesa-Transnistria Scenario Putin hasn’t given up the idea of bringing war to Ukraine’s major port city of Odesa (Odessa). While the city of Mariupol is needed to create a land bridge from Russia to...
Two weeks ago I explained why Romania will fight Russia if Putin expands his war from Donbas further into Ukraine. A few commented that Romania wouldn’t fight – they are mistaken. Romania will fight, as abandoning Moldavia to...
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...
