Russia brags about “Russian” Crimea in DPRK atlas where South Korea “annexed” by North
The Russian Embassy in the North Korea in their 12 October post on Facebook proudly reports that Crimea,…
Poll results: Slight improvement amid national pessimism in Ukraine, positive local outlook
IRI's Center for Insights in Survey Research held a public opinion survey of the residents of Ukraine from 9 June…
Ukraine’s Donbas-reintegration bill branding Russia “aggressor state” passes first reading
"Donbas laws" Re-integration law The first bill "On the specifics of the state policy to ensure the state sovereignty…
Catalonia is (not) Crimea. The differences and commonalities of two referendums
The Russian state-funded TV channel RT broadcasted an interview with Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party…
Kremlin-run “DNR” opens fake diplomatic mission in France. Are Nordic countries next?
On 25 September Hubert Fayard, a small right-wing French political party known as the National Center of Independents…
Ukrainian soldiers battle wildfires, along Russian-controlled troops, in war-torn Donbas
On 22 September about 15:00, a Ukrainian military unit near the village of Novoyanysol 30 km northwest of Mariupol caught fire,…
Russian attack helicopter violates Ukrainian airspace first time since 2014
On 5 September, Facebook user Viktor Vyshnivetskyi shared three photographs and a video of a military helicopter flying…
Pro-Chechen fighter killed in car blast in Kyiv
On 8 September at 18:08 a car blast rocked the area of Bessarabska Ploshcha in the center of…
Putin suddenly wants armed peacekeepers in Donbas. Why now? What for?
Having ignored all previous Ukrainian proposals to deploy UN peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, Putin now claims that Russia…
Donetsk separatist referendum organizer: “Return to Ukraine is inevitable, Donbas is Ukraine”
First, the Ukrainian online newspaper Segodnya.ua published a recent Facebook comment by Roman Lyagin in which he calls the…
The dangerous life of pro-Ukrainian activists in occupied Donbas
As we reported earlier, the occupation authorities of the Luhansk People's Republic," a Russian-backed proxy statelet in Ukraine's east,…
Luhansk militants tortured disabled Ukrainian woman to make her “confess” she is a spy
Abduction of Liudmyla Surzhenko On 16 July, Donbas activists shared urgent calls about the suspected abduction of Liudmyla…
Ukraine’s most powerful wind turbines now produced 45 km away from the front line
In May, Fuhrlander Windtechnology company (FWT) manufactured Ukraine’s most powerful windmill generator in Kramatorsk, a city in war-torn Donetsk Oblast…
European Court of Human Rights hints Russia responsible for Donbas damages
The press release of the ECHR discloses the details of the case of Khlebik v. Ukraine. The case concerned…