Metinvest: Avdiivka Coking Plant beyond repair due to Russian attacks
Its largest consumers of coke were Azovstal and Illich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol, which are not expected to resume operations in the foreseeable future.
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Daily review: US warns of “severe costs” if Russia invades Ukraine, Russia arrests three Ukrainian “spies,” Akhmetov covered up accident at power station
Catch up with the latest news from and related to Ukraine with Euromaidan Press’ daily review. Quick fire…
Zelenskyy claims planned coup attempt, denies Yermak postponed Wagner operation, blames journalists: takeaways from 5-hour press marathon
Plotted coup d’état and oligarch Akhmetov The Ukrainian president said that a coup plotted against has been planned…
Month-long underground strike of miners in Zelenskyy’s hometown highlights ills of oligarchic economy
Kryvyi Rih is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk oblast which is the birthplace of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The…
Why can’t Ukraine just get rid of its oligarchs?
Whence came the oligarchs? To answer why the oligarchs are so omnipresent in Ukrainian life, one has to…
Portnikov: Putin’s coalition now rules Ukraine
The Zelenskyy-Kolomoyskyi-Medvedchuk coalition confidently rules Ukraine with the tacit support of Akhmetov. It is a coalition of treason,…
Portnikov: Ukraine’s development will resume after crisis caused by Zelenskyy
Today’s 40-year-olds have lost the chance to see a truly sovereign and successful Ukraine. If they are lucky,…
Ukraine’s new state coal giant – reform conduit or corruption sinkhole?
On 6 December 2017 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine created a new coal giant – the National Coal…
“Donetsk People’s Republic” ex-PM inadvertently admits he carried out Kremlin plans
As Crimea was occupied by Russia at the end of February 2014, Russia established several training camps in…
Ukraine imposes official blockade on occupied territories demanding stolen assets back
On March 15, President Petro Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of the NSDC (National Security and Defense Council…
What assets did Russia’s puppet republics seize from Ukraine? Full list
On March 1, so-called LNR (“Luhansk People’s republic”) grabbed 3 coal companies owned by Ukrainian tycoon Rinat Akmetov:…
Donbas “republics” seize Ukrainian assets blaming blockade
On February 27, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, terrorist leaders of the uncontrolled territories in the Donbas, delivered…
Oligarch Akmetov’s plants in occupied Donbas stop production amid trade blockade
Activists have been blocking several railway lines connecting the Donbas with its occupied parts since January. The blockade…
Ukrainian blockade of occupied Donbas to hit law enforcement agencies hardest — military expert
On January 25, demobilized soldiers and veterans of Ukrainian volunteer battalions launched a trade blockade of the occupied parts of…
The Avdiivka coke factory is in trouble, and that’s bad news for Ukraine’s industry
After a period of relative stagnation, the situation in Donbas is experiencing the largest escalation in two years.…
Blood coal: oligarchs, terrorists and POW labor in Russo-Ukrainian war
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) revealed one of numerous schemes by which the so-called republic’s leaders receive money from…
Inside the booming smuggling business in the Donbas
The key players in the Donbas’ booming smuggling business are politicians, oligarchs, and the criminal underworld. Coal, gold,…
Will Ukraine and the West acknowledge the real occupation of the Donbas?
After the publication of the facts on the DNR/LNR “republics” by the German newspaper Bild, both the West…
The pitfalls of not doing your homework
Investigative and analytical journalists who take on historical issues venture into delicate territory and often leave open the…
Akhmetov cooperating with Donbas terrorists — DNR leader
Alexander Borodai, former “prime minister” of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR), told a meeting of Russian nationalists…