LNR (“Luhansk People’s Republic”) Archives

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Ukraine’s spy agency says it eliminated Russia’s “LNR colonel” Filiponenko in occupied Luhansk (updated)

Quisling official Colonel Mikhail Filiponenko of the "Luhansk People's Republic" has allegedly been killed in a car explosion in occupied Luhansk, Russian sources report.

byYuri Zoria

andriy anofriev terrorist from so-called luhansk people's republic

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Donbas terrorist Anofriev runs Dnipro city plant, signs state contracts – journo investigation

Andriy Anofriev, a terrorist from the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic” (LNR), is quietly running his plant in Dnipro…

byUkrayinska Pravda

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Ukraine court sentences militant of LNR terrorist organization to 10 years

A militant of the LNR terrorist organization, who stormed Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk, was sentenced to 10 years in…

byOrysia Hrudka

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Russian Aggression

Russia squashes dissent, imposes terror regime in newly-occupied lands of Luhansk Oblast

After the first days of battles and the Russian breakthroughs near Schastia and in what previously was a…

byYuri Zoria

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War in Donbas

Russia’s Donbas proxies shelled Russian territory and their own civilians, SBU intercept claims

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has published a video claiming to show the “conversations between militants of the…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Russian Aggression

Russia says its proxies have right to two entire Ukrainian oblasts, withdraws from Minsk agreements

After recognizing its puppet Donetsk and Luhansk “republics” in Donbas on 21 February, Vladimir Putin on 22 February…

byAlya Shandra

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War in Donbas

After launching escalation, Russian proxies prepare to evacuate civilians, Ukraine’s Army chief says

Ukrainian kindergarten and school hit as Russian-hybrid forces escalate hostilities all over Donbas The full official statement says:…

byBohdan Ben

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Hybrid War

The “Donbas genocide myth” in the making: a kindergarten shelling case study

The propaganda campaign attempted to create a virtual reality, in which the escalation of Russian occupation forces in…

byYuri Zoria

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Russia to screen propaganda movie about Donbas worldwide. Its protagonist defected to Ukraine

Read also: Russian celebrity tank commandress defects to Ukraine, leaks details on Russian involvement in occupied Donbas Since…

byYuri Zoria

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Ukrainian court sentences Russian proxy “republic” ex-leaders to life imprisonment in absentia for 2014 airplane downing

The judges were reading out their 130-page verdict over two days. In it, they found “LNR head” Igor…

byYuri Zoria

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I narrowly escaped death in dungeons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” This is what saved me. Part 2

Communication with the outside world A very colorful type appeared in the cell. They tossed in a person…

byTexty.org.ua

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I survived the basement prisons of the “Luhansk People’s Republic.” Here is what I saw. Part 1

Summer of 2014. At that time I worked as the deputy chief of the Luhansk Regional State Hospital…

byTexty.org.ua

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War in Donbas

5 years of war: separating facts from fiction

Kyiv attacked Donbas “Ukrainian soldiers are killing people in Donbas” – this is one of ORDLO’s favorite propaganda…

byRadio Liberty

Vladimir Putin's personal advisor Vladislav Surkov (R) photographed talking to Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the assassinated head of the so-called "DNR" in 2017. Ex-PM of the "DNR" Alexandr Boroday stands to the left of Zakharchenko closer to the camera. (Photo: 161.ru)

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Surkov seen remaining in charge of Kremlin policy on Donbas, Abkhazia and South Ossetia

After a media boomlet suggesting Mikhail Babich, the recently recalled Russian ambassador to Minsk, would replace Vladislav Surkov…

byPaul A. Goble

The sign says in Ukrainian: "The Donetsk Diocese of The Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate." Photo: Andriy Bashtovyy / RadioSvoboda.Org (RFE/RL)

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Donbas occupiers doing to Ukrainian Church what they accuse Kyiv of doing to Moscow one

The so-called “Donetsk Peoples Republic” is preparing to liquidate all structures loyal to the autocephalous Orthodox Church of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Moscow increasingly acknowledges it controls Donbas regimes, Kirillova reports

Telling a lie is easy; to sustain one is hard, especially if those at whom it is directed…

byPaul A. Goble

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Who is who in Russian-run “Luhansk People’s Republic”

The local authorities of ORDLO (“certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts”, the official designation of the occupied…

byYuri Zoria

Former hostages after their captivity in the occupied Donbas.

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A month of freedom: released hostages tell about captivity and torture in occupied Donbas

Read the prisoner swap story: Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics” Three…

byYuri Zoria

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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…

byYuri Zoria

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After the coup in occupied Luhansk: a real junta and more Russian FSB control

Luhansk has been under the control of the Russian-hybrid forces since spring 2014. Moscow-installed local resident Igor Plotnitsky remained…

byYuri Zoria