Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics”
Russia had effectively blocked the prisoner exchange process in the Donbas for 15 months from September 2016, when two Ukrainian…
Browsing Category
War in Donbas
1326 posts
War in Donbas: videos, news, opinions.
What Ukraine can take from the “Croatian Scenario” of conflict resolution
Contents What do people mean by “the Croatian Scenario”? What time does it refer to?“Operation Storm”Who speaks about…
Another ceasefire begins in Donbas after pullout of Russian observers followed by escalation
Contents Russia's pullout from ceasefire monitoring teamAnother escalation in the DonbasThe US and Canada's green light to the lethal aid can…
From combat to coding: how one IT company is helping Ukraine’s war veterans
Serhiy Koziuk is a web developer. He decided to enter the profession after being wounded in the war in…
Ukraine’s ‘Sparrow-LE’ drone soars to new heights
The drone is meant to be used for surveillance. It’s equipped with cameras, navigators, and antennas to transmit…
UGCC Major Archbishop Svyatoslav: “The war will stop when we stop pretending there’s no war!”
Such an opinion was recently expressed in a radio broadcast by the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic…
Children of war: 17-year-old Misha and Artur talk about their fathers, childhood and war
My father, Viktor Makidon, was an officer in the Myrotvorets Battalion. He died of a heart attack in…
“If a doctor saves one life at war, he saves an entire world.” The story of a military surgeon in Ukraine
“He wasn’t in agony because his right hand had been severed; he very calmly asked, “Will I live…
Arming Ukraine: capability requirements—a view from Kyiv
Much of the recent discussion in NATO capitals focuses on whether Ukraine should be supplied with “lethal aid”…
Ukraine may swap its 74 hostages in occupied Donbas before New Year
The prisoner swap process had been de-facto blocked by Russia for 15 months. The last exchange took place on…
New Ukrainian ‘Cyborgs’ war film chronicles heroic defense of Donetsk Airport
The fierce fight for Donetsk International Airport over the winter of 2014/2015 became much more than a battle…
Donbas on the brink of environmental catastrophe
Chemical plants and steel mills are just some of the more than four thousand ticking ecological time bombs…
Marine Commander Sukharevsky: We’ll never give up Mariupol!
-The army is a mirror of our society, and children are our future. We soldiers may look very…
Meet the foreign fighters defending Ukraine from Russian aggression
This is Mamuka Mamulashvili. He’s one of the foreign volunteer fighters currently serving in Ukraine’s armed forces. He…
Portnikov: Putin has four Donbas scenarios and will choose worst one for Ukraine
Moscow completely controls the situation in the occupied Donbas, Vitaly Portnikov says; and consequently, one should not view…
Chaplain Kostyantyn Kholodov: War is a terrible thing that changes a man’s mindset
The war is well into its fourth year, but the law on military chaplaincy has yet to be…
Coup attempt underway in occupied Luhansk: what we know so far
The coup was triggered by a ruling of the so-called Luhansk city Leninskyi district court dismissing an "LNR"…
The Soldier and the Doctor: A story from the front lines
The pain could be relieved somewhat if he stared at the sky. It would recede deep behind the…
Russia stands behind “DNR” leader’s order to confiscate food crops, echoing Stalin’s Holodomor
Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian client statelet, the Donetsk Peoples Republic, has called for the…
Russian proxy republic leader in Donbas threatens to attack UN peacekeeper mission
Deynega underlined that “not one single man bearing a weapon will enter “LNR-controlled” territory”. When Leonardo Svidovsky, the…