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…
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Battle of Ilovaisk: Honoring Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Bloodiest Battle
The mother of Yevhen Kharchenko, a killed volunteer fighter in the Donbas Battalion, shows a photo of a…
Three years after deadliest battle in Donbas, official investigation skims over guilt of Ukrainian command
The investigation into the responsibility of Ukrainian commanders is highly important not only for the sake of historical…
New Chain of Bakery Cafes Employs Ukrainian War Veterans
"We are developing the idea that a veteran is a successful person, a person who has ideas, who…
Relatives of soldiers killed in Donbas war march in alternative “parade” for Ukraine’s independence
/Photos: Olena Makarenko Read more: Ukrainians celebrate 26th anniversary of Independence | Photos Pentagon chief in Kyiv: defensive…
Probe into Ukraine’s largest military defeat at Ilovaisk pins blame on Russian invasion, admits mistakes
On 14 August 2017, Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office (GPO) released the results of a probe into Ukraine’s largest…
Ukraine’s ATO veterans go from protecting their country to protecting its cats
They don’t only protect their country. In their regular lives, some veterans of the conflict in eastern Ukraine…
Japanese go crazy over Ukrainian anime-style soldiers
The artist works under the nickname @msc_nm and posts many of his drawings on Twitter. The Ukrainian heroes…
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…
Shmulyevich: Putin to reprise Stalin’s Winter War in Finland strategy against Ukraine
One of the most important features of Moscow’s behavior but one that at the same time Western leaders…
Ukrainian attitudes harden against Kremlin’s positions on Donbas
According to new polls, 60 percent of Ukrainians favor the introduction of international peacekeepers in the Donbas; and…
Donetsk “separatists” call to replace Ukraine with Russian imperial province Malorossiya
On 18 July, Aleksander Zakharchenko, the Kremlin-installed leader of so-called Donetsk People's Republic, a breakaway region in Ukraine's Donbas, delivered…
Who is who in the Minsk process | Infographics
The Minsk peace process is so far seen as the only way to stop the war between combined…
Flight MH17 three years on: getting the truth out of Eastern Ukraine
Contents Very detailed evidence Pro-Kremlin media aim at creating confusion The long list of pro-Kremlin disinformation about MH17…
Russian Airborne Colonel Gratov detained in Ukraine
On 10 July at a briefing in the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, the ATO spokesperson Col. Andriy Lysenko said…
Georgia’s lessons of peacebuilding now instructive for Ukrainians
I met Julia in 2016, when being a volunteer in the summer peace camp for Ukrainian kids who…
Russian contract soldier captured in Donbas confirms he was on active duty
Viktor Ageyev, the 22-year old Russian soldier detained in eastern Ukraine on 24 June 2017, confirmed that he…
Marta Havryshko: In the ATO zone, women are often sexually abused by soldiers, but refuse to speak out
Marta Havryshko, Candidate of History, Junior Researcher at the Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Studies the history of…
The Russian war against Ukraine by the numbers
There is no “Ukrainian crisis,” as so many in Moscow and the West continue to say; there is…
Ukrainian Security Service colonel killed, three wounded in car blast in Donbas
A car explosion at 19:00 on 27 June 2017 took the life of Yuriy Voznyi, a colonel with…