The local authorities of ORDLO (“certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts,” the official designation of the occupied territories in the east of Ukraine) were appointed by Russia to control the local population and economy....
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...
Luhansk has been under the control of the Russian-hybrid forces since spring 2014. Moscow-installed local resident Igor Plotnitsky remained the political head of the “LNR” for three years. On 21 November, a dismissed...
As we reported earlier, the occupation authorities of the Luhansk People’s Republic,” a Russian-backed proxy statelet in Ukraine’s east, released hearing-impaired Liudmyla Surzhenko on 29 July following her 16-day...
Abduction of Liudmyla Surzhenko On 16 July, Donbas activists shared urgent calls about the suspected abduction of Liudmyla Surzhenko, a 39-year-old woman who has had hearing disabilities since her childhood. According to the published...
The press release of the ECHR discloses the details of the case of Khlebik v. Ukraine. The case concerned the complaint by a man who had been convicted of several offenses by a court in Luhansk Oblast in 2013. The domestic courts were...
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...
Today, on April 23, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine reported its first casualties in the Donbas since the mission was deployed to Ukraine in 2014. One staff member had died after a patrol vehicle hit a landmine near the...
Artillery bombardments continue in the Donbas every day since late February. The 11th and 12th of March were two more days of ongoing escalation in hostilities, according to reports by local residents on social networks. As usual, most...
Overnight into February 15, north Donetsk could hear sporadic sounds of the cannonade, it was also heard in Yasynuvata and Makiyivka, cities north and northeast of Donetsk (all time EET, GMT+2). 02:00 Makiivka Vostochnyi: From the west,...
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...
