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...
Starting from 2015, Stanislav Aseyev worked for different media in his hometown of Donetsk, wring his op-eds mostly for Radio Liberty. On 11 May 2017, the so-called Day of the Republic, local police detained him on his way home from the...
Before the Russian occupation of Donetsk, what is now a prison was home to the international charity foundation “IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives,” and hosted various art exhibitions and events. And now those...
Past 24 hours in the war zone On 29 November, according to Ukraine’s Joint-Forces Operation Staff, Russian-hybrid forces launched 8 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol sectors, two Ukrainian soldiers and...
Since the beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, Moscow has been pertinacious in its denial of the open secret of the presence of its troops in Ukraine’s east and even the very fact of the Kremlin’s involvement in...
Wild Field Up until the late 17th century, the huge steppe of modern Ukraine’s southeast was the country’s Outback and was often referred to as Dyke Pole, or the Wild Field. The lands had a rather sparse population of...
Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run “Donetsk People’s Republic,” has reported on his Facebook page the alleged identities of three warders involved in tortures in Donetsk-based...
Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The photo was posted by the anonymous Donetsk Tractorist channel on 27 January. Read also: Donetsk art center...
“I myself started from the bottom. I didn’t have any super training or super shoes. So, I know how young people feel in Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Druzhkovka. At this time, their families face a very difficult financial situation,...
Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people – both militants and locals suspected of spying for Ukraine – went through the facility. In particular, for 28 months, terrorists held journalist and blogger...
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...
