SLOVIANSK Welcome to Sloviansk, Ania says, greeting us warmly before adding, You will not like it. I immediately take that as a personal challenge. But I get it. It’s gray. There are a lot of broken things. Many stray dogs. Our hotel...
According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the academic year in the liberated cities of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts began as scheduled, on September 1. In...
Kyiv theater director Pavel Yurov and artist Denis Grishchuk spent 70 days as hostages of the separatists led by Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov) in Sloviansk. Pavel was born in Antratsyt (Luhansk Oblast) and Denis in Donetsk. On April 25 they...
June 2, 2014 Pastor Serhiy Demydovych, Interviewed by Tetiana Rudenka Serhiy Demyovych, pastor of the Good News Church in Sloviansk on the situation in his city, reconsidering his own Christian position, challenges to the evangelical...
Forces of the Ukrainian Army interrogate a captured separatist that discloses shocking details of the Kremlin-backed militants’ treatment of the local population of the Donbas region of Ukraine. In particular, the separatist tells...
Some 500 residents of Sloviansk, which was liberated from Russian terrorists on July 5, held their third Sunday assembly, reports TV Channel 5, August 3. City residents at the pro-Ukraine demonstration discussed how to restore their city,...
A number of journalists, including VICE News’ Simon Ostrovsky, who has done some of the best reporting on the crisis in eastern Ukraine to date, posted photos today of an exhumation being conducted by police. Police informed...
A group of 21 psychologists from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have returned from Sloviansk. They were on the road for three days providing counseling and humanitarian assistance for city residents. Deutsche Welle spoke with the...
On July 15, employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) together with the experts from the explosive technical service within the Interior Ministry and servicemen of the Sokil special sub-unit of the Interior Ministry uncovered an...
On July 5, the eastern Ukrainian town of Sloviansk was recaptured by the Ukrainian military, driving out pro-Russia rebels and ending their three-month occupation. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky travels back to Sloviansk and...
In Petrozavodsk on June 1 began the trial of one of the most amazing people I have ever known – local historian Yuriy Dmitriev. He has dedicated his life to the dead. He is accused either of producing child pornography or illegal...
