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...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in his interview with Russia’s RBK channel warned that it would not be possible to “continue the work of the Normandy Four” “with a clean slate.” Lavrov is demanding that the new Ukrainian...
Kyiv attacked Donbas “Ukrainian soldiers are killing people in Donbas” – this is one of ORDLO’s favorite propaganda lines that has been consistently spread and broadcast for the past five years. The “DPR/LPR” information policy...
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...
The Prosecutor declared that senior sergeant of the National Guard of Ukraine Vitaliy Markiv did not actually kill Rocchelli, but that he informed the National Guard Command about civilian movements near Zeus Ceramica factory, Donetsk...
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...
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...
Can Vladimir Putin stop shooting and killing Ukrainians? Of course he can. He doesn’t need any agreements with anybody – not with Zelensky, not with Poroshenko, not even with Merkel. He simply has to want to do it. Presidential...
– In your opinion, were the Ukrainian authorities right in not allowing Ukrainian citizens residing in Russia to vote in the upcoming elections? – I don’t know; I’m neither a politician nor a diplomat. I believe that either...
There are so many aspects to Vladimir Putin’s “hybrid” war against the West that it is remarkably easy for Moscow to hide what it is doing one place by doing something else elsewhere. That makes the annotated checklist of his...
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...
