The decision sparked international outrage and indignation. The Ukrainian Ministry of foreign affairs in its statement called Putin’s decision “one more deliberate step towards demolishing the Minsk Agreements,” “a...
After a media boomlet suggesting Mikhail Babich, the recently recalled Russian ambassador to Minsk, would replace Vladislav Surkov as the Kremlin’s point man on the Donbas, Abkhazia and South Ossetia (charter97.org and iarex.ru), sources...
In 2018, the Ukrainian side of the Trilateral Contact Group on settlement of the conflict in Ukraine (TCG or the Minsk group) managed to release only one Ukrainian serviceman from the ORDLO, or the occupied part of country’s...
Read also: Two “DNR ministers” surrender to Ukraine. Will the rest follow? In occupied Donetsk, Svitlana Driuk was a local TV propaganda celebrity, who was presented as a peaceful civilian who rose to the defense of her Donbas...
The so-called “Donetsk Peoples Republic” is preparing to liquidate all structures loyal to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine by expelling its priests and seizing their churches, exactly the kind of actions Donetsk...
Read more on the sham elections: Phony “elections” in Russia’s phony “republics” in Ukraine: a legitimization of the occupation The 9 persons are subject to EU restrictive measures, which involve a travel ban and asset freeze,...
Back in spring-summer 2014, Russian-backed forces took control of the territory which is now officially referred to as “certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts” (ORDLO) in OSCE documents and Ukrainian legislature. As soon...
The solution, in Russia’s disinformation style: attack the opponent TV channel Rossiya 1 made bold false claims aiming to show how the Ukrainian President was ignored, dismissed and isolated by the other leaders in Paris. It showed...
Since the international community considered the “general elections” in unrecognized “DNR” and “LNR” illegitimate, no real international monitors were sent to observe the event. Identified...
“Election vegetables” A number of measures were announced and then taken to attract voters. Among them were “celebrations” on central squares of Luhansk and Donetsk, interactive events, dance and sports shows,...
In and around the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, there has arisen in the post-Soviet era a trio of creative musical figures of an exceedingly singular character. All three, as it happens, are women. And though Ukraine is hardly known as a...
