Despite the intended all-for-all exchange of prisoners negotiated last fall by the Ukrainian and Russian presidents in Paris and two successful prisoner swaps that followed, the Russian occupation authorities of Ukraine’s Donbas...
Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people – both militants and locals suspected of spying for Ukraine – went through the facility. In particular, for 28 months, terrorists held journalist and blogger...
Mariya Tomak, one of the coordinators of the organization, has published an infographic, according to which 13 civilians are currently being held hostage in Luhansk Oblast, and 76 civilians in Donetsk Oblast. Iryna Herashchenko, Vice...
If the West doesn’t recall the 1936 Nazi Olympics when thinking about the FIFA World Cup competition to be held in Russia in 16 days, then when will it? Tata Gutmakher asks, adding that unfortunately it appears the West “doesn’t...
In 1787, Prince Grigory Potemkin erected special villages to impress his lover, Catherine the Great, on her trip to Crimea. Unlike real Russian villages, these were clean and bright and designed to give the impression that the people there...
Read the prisoner swap story: Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics” Three years behind bars in his occupied hometown Yenhen Chudnetsov, a resident of occupied Makiivka and a...
After yet another detention of Ukrainian citizens in Russia, Ukrainian officials began to speak again about the danger of travelling to the neighboring country. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that such trips often become a...
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...
From the moment that Savchenko’s plane landed at Boryspil airport, we needed to stop thinking about her and her attempts to live up to her own image and, instead, to focus on those remaining in Putin’s dungeons. The appearance...
On 16 September, seven more Crimean Tatars from the Crimean peninsula which Russia occupied in 2014 were predictably sentenced to monstrous terms by a court in Rostov-on-Don. Marlen Asanov, Memet Belyalov, Timur Ibragimov, Server...
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