Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics”
Russia had effectively blocked the prisoner exchange process in the Donbas for 15 months from September 2016, when two Ukrainian…
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Russia stands behind “DNR” leader’s order to confiscate food crops, echoing Stalin’s Holodomor
Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian client statelet, the Donetsk Peoples Republic, has called for the…
Ukrainian civil resistance to Russian occupation in Donbas
When his native city Donetsk was run over by Russian-militant forces in the summer of 2014 and severed…
“DNR leader” Zakharchenko orders confiscation of local crops
The text of this “Order” dated Novemeber 3, 2017 has been published on the “DNR” website. “Cereals and…
BBC: How the “DNR” special services & troll factory scare Russians with terror attacks
Masked faces, distorted voices, poses from action movies and ready-to-use firearms - the Russian-language Internet is full of…
Russian “siloviki” oversee power vertical of occupied Donbas
Russia controls the situation in its proxy state in eastern Ukraine, the "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DNR") via Russian-established law enforcement…
Who is who in Russian-run “Donetsk People’s Republic”
Background of the takeover of Donbas The protests against the Euromaidan (2013-2014) in Luhansk and Donetsk were mostly…
“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…
United Ukraine supporter appointed head of ruling “party” in occupied Donetsk
During the previous week, the Russian-installed leader of Donetsk Aleksandr Zakharchenko informed that his political rival Denis Pushilin, speaker…
Kremlin-run “DNR” opens fake diplomatic mission in France. Are Nordic countries next?
On 25 September Hubert Fayard, a small right-wing French political party known as the National Center of Independents…
Russia set to cut funding of proxy “republics” in Donbas in favor of Crimea – media
The Russian government intends to stop the "humanitarian assistance to certain territories" in favor of financing projects in…
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…
Why did the Russian-militant forces attack Krasnohorivka? Latest flare-up in Donbas, explained
The last week in Ukraine was marked by a sudden announcement by the chief of the unrecognized "Donetsk…
French politicians to visit Donbas to “support Russian army being bombarded by Ukraine”
Three French local politicians from Bouches-du-Rhône county in southern France have kicked off their visit to Moscow to…
Ukraine has not “lost” uncontrolled Donbas yet, new poll shows
More than three years have passed since, in the aftermath of Euromaidan and occupation of Crimea, referendums under…
Slovyansk and Kharkiv key to understanding war in Ukraine
Hello and welcome to Head-to-Head. It’s Vivica Williams and today we're talking with Paul Niland, a political commentator…
Deception, Disinformation, and Doubt: Hybrid Warfare in Eastern Ukraine
Conflict Context To start, the Euromaidan—the initial flashpoint from which armed conflict became possible—was not simply a response…
Russian-backed leader Zakharchenko demands Ukraine recognize “Donetsk republic”
The leader of the Donetsk separatists, Alexander Zakharchenko, made it clear that his “people’s republic” wants to be…
Economic separation of Donbas “republics” from Ukraine likely to create more economic woes
The severing of economic links between the areas controlled by separatists and the government in Ukraine’s Donetsk and…
Moving poem by Yuliya, wife of Oleksandr Korinkov, prisoner in the “DNR”
A raven croaks its dreary song above the man sitting in darkness, A darkness covered in sorrow, even…