Russia’s forces continue to make incremental tactical successes in the Donbas, but regardless of what progress it makes now, Ukraine has already defeated Russia. After failing to achieve its initial military objectives and...
Russia abandoned the ceasefire in Ukraine’s east in early February (see EDM, February 18) and persists with low-intensity positional warfare to date, killing and wounding several Ukrainian soldiers every week. Ukraine responds...
“One hundred and thirty-five. Four-five-zero,” a Ukrainian soldier speaks into his walkie-talkie. This is how Ukrainian fighters periodically report on the situation at their posts located along the front line....
Ceasefire deal While the agreement’s full text has been released by all signatory parties, the page reserved for the signatures has only been revealed by the Luhansk occupation authorities (Lug-info.com, July 22). The scanned page...
Russia, Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and ORDLO representatives from Donetsk and Luhansk worked out this document in the Minsk Contact Group format. The document officializes the “ORDLO...
Last week amid a string of strange disparate events in the country, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy announced another ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on resolving the conflict agreed on another truce in...
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy really believes that a genuine ceasefire will be established and observed in the Donbas after July 27. “This is critically important for us,” said the Ukrainian president during an...
The disengagements of troops in Moldova and Georgia took place under interstate agreements on a ceasefire signed between heads of Russia and the conflict’s “host state.” Most of the treaties were de-facto capitulation...
Oleksandr Lashchenko: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz recently expressed hope that this time there would be a real ceasefire. General Bondar, what’s happening again? Why isn’t the truce observed? Bohdan Bondar: If the...
The “Easter ceasefire” statistics as of April 8: 2 killed in action, 27 wounded. 291 attacks in 7 days No fatalities, 5 Ukrainian soldiers wounded in 43 attacks on April 7. Ukraine announces large-scale air...
In August 2022, CBS released its documentary on military aid to Ukraine, filmed in April. The film claims that a major portion of Western military help goes missing in Ukraine but provides no proof other than short remarks from one...
