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A philologist by education, in 2003-2007 Yuri worked as a journalist in a Luhansk online media. He was born and lived all his life in the peaceful provincial city of Luhansk, where nothing serious happened. Until 2014.
Now he is an IDP. Follow Yuri on twitter: @loogunda
In the recent week, there has been a significant increase in the number of alleged and confirmed Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s rear military facilities in the occupied territories. Ukrainian troops are now actively using the tactical...
Initially being cagey about war losses, Ukrainian officials started divulging the numbers Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in his Facebook post that Ukraine desperately needs much more heavy weapons and ammunition including...
A Russian PoW having Ukrainian citizenship and even speaking Ukrainian is a fairly common occurrence in the ongoing war. Shortly before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the occupation authorities of Luhansk and Donetsk...
Bigger picture In the first weeks of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia ditched its early plans to cut off the entire Ukrainian group of forces in the country’s east from the rest of Ukraine as Kharkiv in the north...
Currently, Kherson Oblast, which was occupied by Russian troops in the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion, is formally ruled by a handful of local collaborators. They exist only to create a media illusion of free will of the...
Shortly before midnight on 27 April, a series of explosions rocked central Kherson, a south-Ukrainian regional capital occupied by the Russian troops since the first days of Russia’s all-out invasion. Local journalists found evidence...
The Russian occupation authorities of Luhansk and Donetsk ordered a “general mobilization” on 19 February, when Russia was unsuccessfully trying to create pretexts for its upcoming full-scale invasion of Ukraine. All local men...
Irmino attack On the evening 26 April, residents of Russian-occupied cities in the area of Popasna, Luhansk Oblast, reported that Ukrainian artillery hit a Russian military facility in occupied Irmino about 20 kilometers from the front...
The first reports on the fire at an oil depot in Russia’s Bryansk emerged about 2 a.m. This CCTV video allegedly shows the first explosion which caused the first fire: https://twitter.com/Andryulik/status/1518466374321987584?assasa...
The ongoing deportation of the Ukrainians to Russia presented in Russian propaganda outlets as evacuation includes passing the deportees through various checks in what the Russian authorities call the “filtration camps,” where...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
