On February 27, Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky, terrorist leaders of the uncontrolled territories in the Donbas, delivered an ultimatum, demanding Ukraine to stop the civil trade blockade of the Donbas, threatening to take...
Activists have been blocking several railway lines connecting the Donbas with its occupied parts since January. The blockade created obstacles for transportation of coal for anthracite-fired power plants in Ukraine and of iron ore raw...
On January 25, demobilized soldiers and veterans of Ukrainian volunteer battalions launched a trade blockade of the occupied parts of the Donbas. The economic blockade of the Donbas will hit Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, as...
After a period of relative stagnation, the situation in Donbas is experiencing the largest escalation in two years. Avdiivka, a small town in the government-controlled outskirts of Donetsk, is seeing the most of it. On the night of 30...
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) revealed one of numerous schemes by which the so-called republic’s leaders receive money from Ukraine, part of which is used to finance armed forces of the “republic” which is...
The key players in the Donbas’ booming smuggling business are politicians, oligarchs, and the criminal underworld. Coal, gold, gasoline, and cigarettes are the main resources the separatists are fighting for in eastern Ukraine, an...
After the publication of the facts on the DNR/LNR “republics” by the German newspaper Bild, both the West and Ukraine must decide if they will continue to remain blind to the real issue of the occupation of the Donbas. In fact,...
Investigative and analytical journalists who take on historical issues venture into delicate territory and often leave open the possibility of historical inaccuracy, thus weakening their conclusions. As the saying goes, the chain is only...
Alexander Borodai, former “prime minister” of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR), told a meeting of Russian nationalists recently that Rinat Akhmetov was supporting the DNR terrorists. The...
Due to the ongoing conflict in the Donbas, the football champion of Ukraine, Donetsk Shakhtar, may relocate to western Ukraine. The newspaper Sportyvka reported that the club had signed a lease for the Arena Lviv Stadium for the next three...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
