Amid the continuous military escalation at Ukraine’s borders, Russian state-controlled media continue to cultivate disinformation narratives about imminent or even ongoing atrocities against the population in Donbas. All obviously,...
Things are heating up in Donbas. In the last 24 hours, there has been a sharp rise in the attacks of the Russian proxy Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” on Ukrainian positions. This has been accompanied by a surge...
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyi addressed the residents of the occupied part of Donbas and reiterated that the military-political leadership of the state does not plan or conduct offensive operations...
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...
The propaganda campaign attempted to create a virtual reality, in which the escalation of Russian occupation forces in Ukraine would appear as a Ukrainian “cynical” attack on civilians. The Russian propaganda machine even tried...
The media has recently been full of warnings of Russia’s imminent invasion of Ukraine. The head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service claims that Russia has everything it needs for a full invasion of Ukraine, and the US has warned...
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...
In Putin’s thinking, an invasion of Ukraine would not be an attack on a sovereign state but a just reclamation of Russia’s sphere of influence from “Western foreign influence.” The statements below made by...
As was reported earlier, this week Russia is effectively blocking the Black and Azov seas for Ukraine under the pretext of military drills. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims this is a violation of international law. But a...
On 12 February, Ukrainska Pravda published an analysis prepared by the experts of the Center for Defense Strategies, Andriy Zagorodniuk, Alina Frolova, Oleksiy Pavliuchyk, and Viktor Kevliuk, titled “Is an invasion of Ukraine...
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...