Multimedia project Izolyatsia: Must Speak sheds light on infamous Donetsk “concentration camp”
Before the Russian occupation of Donetsk, what is now a prison was home to the international charity foundation…
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Daily review: Russia opens “cultural center” in seized Donetsk temple, US&UK warn Russia against invading Ukraine, Associated Trio visits Brussels
Past 24 hours in the war zone On 29 November, according to Ukraine’s Joint-Forces Operation Staff, Russian-hybrid forces…
Donbas “republics” urge Moscow to openly send mercenaries to Ukraine’s east: Ukrainian MoD
Since the beginning of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, Moscow has been pertinacious in its denial of the…
Ukraine’s New York: child of a tragic love story of European industrialists and Donbas
Wild Field Up until the late 17th century, the huge steppe of modern Ukraine’s southeast was the country’s…
Three warders who tortured prisoners in occupied Donbas “concentration camp” ID’d as Russian citizens
Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev, a former captive of the Russian-run “Donetsk People’s Republic,” has reported on his Facebook…
First public photos of Russian-run Donetsk concentration camp leaked online
Cells, torture tools, and the yard: these are the first-ever public photos of the Russian-hybrid-forces-run Izolyatsia prison. The…
Danyl Boldyrev: “I would like to climb in Donetsk again”/ Being20 Series
“I myself started from the bottom. I didn’t have any super training or super shoes. So, I know…
Donetsk art center turned into concentration camp: former hostages share their memories
Over the five years of its existence, several hundred people – both militants and locals suspected of spying…
Ukrainian elderly trapped on COVID-19 lockdown on both sides of front-line in Donbas: video
Chasiv Yar hospice In the town of Chasiv Yar, a family volunteered to create a hospice that sheltered…
Donetsk-born teenager recalls years of her living in occupied city
Hello! My name is Nastia. When the war began, I was just 11, and I lived in occupation…
Bellingcat publishes interactive map of Russian artillery strikes across Ukrainian border
In July 2014, Ukrainian armed forces launched an anti-terrorist operation (ATO) against pro-Russian forces which controlled large parts of…
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…
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…
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…
Displaced art. The IZOLYATSIA art center, having fled occupied Donetsk, flourishes in Kyiv
On 9 June 2017, the once Donetsk-located creative platform IZOLYATSIA marked the third year since it moved to…
Ukrainian journalist missing in occupied Donetsk, illegal arrest suspected
On 6 June, Donetsk-born Ukrainian politician Yehor Firsov has reported on Facebook that Stanislav Vasin (Asieiev), a Ukrainian…
Three years after sham referendums in Donbas, no Russian Spring
Three years ago, on 11 May 2014, illegal “referendums” were held in occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk…
One Ukrainian soldier killed in battle. Russian-hybrid forces hold drills amid “Easter ceasefire” #DonbasReports
“Easter ceasefire” April 1-12: 3 soldiers killed in battles, 45 wounded, 564 attacks of Russian-hybrid forces on Ukrainian positions.…