On January 26, 2022 in Paris, senior political advisors to the Russian, Ukrainian, German and French heads of state and government convened to “reanimate” (such is the term in circulation) the quadrilateral...
On the quality of life in Kyiv Mr. Etienne de Poncins came to Kyiv as an Ambassador in 2019. So, at the moment of the interview, he’s been living here for two years. Keeping in mind well-known facts about unbelievably beautiful...
Short fire Russian-backed militants launch 6 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Mariupol sectors, including heavy artillery and weapons banned by Minsk. Between evenings of Dec 3-5, OSCE SMM recorded 153 violations,...
According to the statement published by the Élysée Palace, on 6 December French President Emmanuel Macron met with the heads of state and government in the so-called Quint format, a decision-making group consisting of the US and...
On 17 November, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs openly published on its website a document (archived) containing diplomatic correspondence between Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov and his French and German counterparts, Jean-Yves Le...
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...
The long-awaited meeting of advisers to the Normandy Four leaders in Berlin not only failed to lead to any breakthroughs in the Russia-Ukraine talks on the war in the east of Ukraine, – Ed. but also became a disappointment of sorts...
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’s presidential envoy for conflict-management in Ukraine, Dmitry Kozak, has sent a highly undiplomatic letter to his other counterparts in the “Normandy” forum, gloating over bypassing this forum to maneuver Kyiv...
The COVID-19 coronavirus emergency gives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a non-political excuse for stepping back from the plan that his envoy, Andrii Yermak, accepted from Russian presidential envoy Dmitry Kozak on March 11 in the...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
