In July 2014, Ukrainian armed forces launched an anti-terrorist operation (ATO) against pro-Russian forces which controlled large parts of the two Eastern-Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk and Luhansk also known as the Donbas. Ukrainian...
Russia controls the situation in its proxy state in eastern Ukraine, the “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) via Russian-established law enforcement agencies, or siloviki, which are at the top of the pyramid...
Background of the takeover of Donbas The protests against the Euromaidan (2013-2014) in Luhansk and Donetsk were mostly staged by pro-Russian local elites, linked to the Yanukovych’s Party of Regions (PoR). However, Russia...
During the previous week, the Russian-installed leader of Donetsk Aleksandr Zakharchenko informed that his political rival Denis Pushilin, speaker of the so-called People’s Soviet of the DNR, was dismissed from one of his posts,...
Three French local politicians from Bouches-du-Rhône county in southern France have kicked off their visit to Moscow to later illegally enter a Ukrainian region occupied by Russia. The group consists of the next politicians: Christian...
On 9 June 2017, the once Donetsk-located creative platform IZOLYATSIA marked the third year since it moved to Kyiv. “I do not know what Americans feel on 9/11, but for us the 9th of June is a special day. However, we do not want to mark...
On 6 June, Donetsk-born Ukrainian politician Yehor Firsov has reported on Facebook that Stanislav Vasin (Asieiev), a Ukrainian journalist and writer, has gone missing in occupied Donetsk: Stanislav Asieiev was born and lived in Donetsk....
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal “referendums” were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to create an illusion of all-region wide decision to separate from Ukraine. This farce, organized with Russian...
“Easter ceasefire” April 1-12: 3 soldiers killed in battles, 45 wounded, 564 attacks of Russian-hybrid forces on Ukrainian positions. ATO Headquarters reported 42 attacks on Ukrainian positions as of 18:00, April 13. No...
The 2014–2015 Battle for Donetsk International Airport will long be remembered in Ukrainian history. The Ukrainian soldiers who repelled intense daily gunfire and artillery attacks became a symbol of resistance. In fact, the opposing...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
