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Donbas war (2014-present)
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Paralympic medalist: I removed my prostheses and showed ATO soldiers that they can do without them
Oksana Masters: “My heart is with Ukraine and the people who protect their country!” Oksana Masters (born Oksana…
White Russian officer and Vlasovite source of Putin’s ‘hybrid war’ strategy, former KGB psychoanalyst says
Yevgeny Messner (1891-1974), last chief of staff of the Kornilov Division of Baron Wrangel’s White Russian Army and…
More Ukrainians have been forced to flee violence in their country than Syrians have had to flee theirs
Because of Russian actions, more than three million Ukrainians have fled the Donbas and Crimea either to other…
Return from the world of the dead
Report from the Lviv Military Hospital where doctors, volunteers and ordinary people help wounded ATO soldiers. Ten…
Kyiv must use military means to recover occupied territories, Borovoy says
Now that Vladimir Putin is focused on Syria and clearly unlikely to stop there, the Ukrainian government should…
Canadian doctors operated on young victim of Russia’s hybrid war in Donbas
On 27 October 2015, doctors from the third Canadian medical mission to Ukraine made a reconstructive operation on Mykola, a…
Debaltseve: volunteer shoots film about his comrades-in-arms (video)
The Information and Resistance Group has published a video that was shot and edited by a volunteer (Roman,…
Lviv Prosecutor defends Donetsk Airport for 5 months
Breaking stereotypes Maksym Hryshchuk is a Lviv Prosecutor who volunteered to go to the ATO war zone. He…
OSCE hated by all sides of conflict: letter from occupied Donbas
The OSCE mission is supposedly one of the few agencies that connect the warring sides of the Donbas…
Kremlin reining in radical Russian nationalists lest Donbas veterans join them
Fearful that returning veterans of Russia’s aggression in the Donbas may join forces with radical Russian nationalists, the…
Moscow continues to prepare mercenaries for Ukraine
Although the ceasefire in the Donbas appears to be holding for now and although the world’s attention has…
Putin’s wars already costing Russia ~100 billion US dollars a year, Illarionov says
Estimating the real costs, direct and indirect, of a military conflict is always difficult because so many factors…
Love story from the frontlines: Mariupol girl marries wounded soldier of Donbas Battalion
A soldier of the Donbas Battalion and a Mariupol girl got married at the Hospital for the Disabled…
Putin’s “peacemaking” in Ukraine is continuation of his war by other means, Portnikov suggests
Clausewicz famously observed that “war is the continuation of politics by other means;” but in the case of…
Avoiding World War III at stake in fight about veto powers in UN Security Council, Moscow scholar says
The United Nations was set up to prevent World War III, Elena Galkina writes. But with wars raging…
‘Putin will never leave Ukraine in peace,’ commentators say
Vladimir Putin’s new war in Syria has driven Ukraine off the front pages of the world’s press, and…
Moscow now emphasizing subversion over direct aggression in Ukraine, Kyiv analyst says
No one should conclude that the current lull in the fighting in the Donbas marks the end of…
Putin’s desperate attempt to legalize “KrymNash” (CrimeaIsOurs)
The war in Syria is the Kremlin’s last hope to achieve recognition, albeit informal, of Russian-occupied Crimea and…
Russia and Ukraine: assembling Putin’s “Syrian puzzle”
A strange elation has been spreading in social networks: Putin supposedly has become actively involved in Syria and, therefore,…
Russian aggression in Ukraine reflects major demographic considerations
The continuing de-Russification of Russia, caused by the influx of migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus and…