After yesterday’s shelling of Ukrainian positions amid accusations of Ukraine’s alleged “Donbas genocide,” the occupation authorities of Donetsk (“DNR”) have reported about two ostensibly foiled...
Ukrainian kindergarten and school hit as Russian-hybrid forces escalate hostilities all over Donbas The full official statement says: According to the L/DNR, evacuation of the local population is planned in some settlements in the...
On the morning of 17 February, the Russian-occupation forces shelled the Ukraine-controlled front-line town of Stanytsia Luhanska, Luhansk Oblast, with heavy artillery, one of the shells hit the building of a kindergarten in the...
It was the morning of 9 November 2017 when Maryna Yurchak, a chemical technologist from Donetsk, was detained by Russia-controlled militants on her way to work. When Yurchak’s parents had not heard from her for the entire day, they...
The Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba appealed to journalists of Ukrainian and international media not to legitimize Russian occupation of Donbas and...
Sniper vs sniper As they say in the army, the best remedy against a sniper is a 120mm mortar. For example, if there’s gunfire from a certain area, then four or five mortars will be more effective than a sniper duel. Of course, it...
The increased threat from Russia leaves security experts in Ukraine weighing various escalation scenarios. But if specific military actions on the ground leave enough room for speculation, it is absolutely certain that Russia is preparing...
On 2 February 2022, representatives of five Western countries and Ukraine signed a Memorandum of Understanding on launching the Partnership Fund for a Resilient Ukraine. The ceremony was chaired by Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukraine’s Deputy...
This is the moving story of Vasya, a Cane Corso (Italian breed of mastiff), who served for many years in a marine corps reconnaissance platoon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was told by Olena Bilozerska, a former journalist who is now...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
