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Ukrainian units take out Russian SAM launcher, radars, bridge layer in Donetsk Oblast (VIDEO)

Destroying Niobiy-SV radars and an S-300V launcher contributes to the campaign of the systematic strikes, leaving Russia’s air defense fragmented across occupied Donbas.

byYuri Zoria

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Ukraine strikes Russian army command post in occupied Donetsk Oblast

Russian forces had been using the facility to coordinate attacks against both Ukrainian military positions and civilian populations.

byOrysia Hrudka

Russian tanks, illustrative image. Photo via Wikimedia.

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Ukraine lost 3,600 km² to Russia in 2024, up to 20 km² daily in November

In 2024, Ukraine saw significant territorial losses to Russian forces, primarily in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.

byOrysia Hrudka

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Ukrainian residents in occupied regions face heating blackmail without Russian passport

The Center for National Resistance warns of a new strategy to pressure Ukrainian citizens through basic utility access.

byMaria Tril

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Power outages across Russia-occupied areas follow nighttime attack on thermal power plant

Acting head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) reports an overnight attempt to damage the energy system, resulting in a partial blackout and affecting "half of Mariupol, Donetsk, Yenakiyeve, and Horlivka."

byOrysia Hrudka

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Russian Aggression

Putin’s plan A failed, but there is the no less dangerous plan B: Kyiv defense experts

СDS experts highlight that Putin’s public position regarding Ukraine morphed from seeking a favorable agreement with Ukraine as…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Moscow to spend $12.4 bn on occupied Donbas in next three years

Moscow shall allocate over 900 billion rubles ($12.4 billion) in 2022-2024 over the next three years to financially…

byYuliia Rudenko

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Russian Aggression

The struggle ongoing to prevent an environmental catastrophe in war-torn Donbas

This February, in order to draw public attention to looming natural, environmental, and industrial disasters in the Donbas,…

byYuri Zoria

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Facts & figures in occupied Donbas. Is reintegration a realistic prospect?

Reliable statistics in the occupied territories? One of the main problems in Ukraine’s ORDLO* policy is the lack…

byRadio Liberty

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Telephone terrorism against Ukraine originates mostly from Russia or Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine

Since the beginning of November, there have been fake calls claiming that bombs have been planted in the…

byPaul A. Goble

Annual working-age population growth rates worldwide 2015-2020 (Sources: HSBC, UN Population Division data)

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Is handing out passports in the Donbas Putin’s solution to Russia’s demographic collapse?

Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer Russian citizenship to those living in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine and possibly others…

byPaul A. Goble

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A businessman, nurse & food technologist: stories of three civilian hostages in occupied Donbas

Mariya Tomak, one of the coordinators of the organization, has published an infographic, according to which 13 civilians…

byRadio Liberty

Devastation in the Donbas, Ukraine brought by the Russian military aggression (Image: znak.com)

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Donbas residents increasingly want to return to being part of Ukraine, Bekeshkina says

Iryna Bekeshkina, director of the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, says that those who initially supported the Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

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School children from occupied Donbas want to enter universities in free Ukraine

Hundreds of students from the Russia-occupied territories of the Donbas traveled to unoccupied Ukraine in order to take…

byOlena Makarenko

Mercenaries from the 9th Infantry Regiment of Russia's hybrid military force in the Donbas captured in firefight on June 27, 2016 being interrogated by the Ukrainian Security Service. They stated that they were commanded by officers from the regular Russian army and that a mercenary private's monthly pay in their unit is 15000 rubles or about $250 U.S. dollars. (Image: video screen capture)

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Even direct costs of Putin’s aggression unsustainable, Pashkov says

The indirect costs of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea as well as his military…

byPaul A. Goble

The surrender of the Japanese Empire in WWII aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan on September 2, 1945. Lieutenant-General Kuzma Derevyanko representing the Soviet Union signs the instrument of surrender. In 2007, Derevyanko was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. Now the Russian Federation named one of the Kuril islands in honor of this famous Ukrainian. (Image: Australian War Memorial)

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‘Moscow names Kuril island to honor Hero of Ukraine Derevyanko’ and other neglected Russian stories

The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…

byPaul A. Goble

Sheikh Said Ismagilov, the mufti of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Ukraine (Image: qha.com.ua)

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100,000 Muslims have fled Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine

Prior to Vladimir Putin’s Anschluss of Crimea and aggression in the Donbas, there were only a few thousand…

byPaul A. Goble

Issues of the two remaining newspapers in Russia-occupied Luhansk. Its official "LNR" accreditation certificate is on top. Each issue features a prominent portrait of the head of the Moscow's puppet administration for the occupied territory. (Image: apostrophe.ua)

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Media in Russian-occupied Donbas increasingly like those of North Korea, study finds

Ukrainians living in the Russian-occupied Donbas and those living in the rest of Ukraine exist in “two parallel…

byPaul A. Goble

Only goats are grazing weeds where rows of shiny new cars stood at the formerly-successful and now-robbed and abandoned Volkswagen dealership in Russian-occupied Luhansk, Ukraine. September 2016 (Image: Denys Kazansky, deniskazansky.com.ua)

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Photo essence of Putin’s “Russian world” in the Donbas

This is [Russian-occupied] Luhansk today. Goats graze weeds growing from cracks in the pavement near the robbed and abandoned…

byUkrainian media sources

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Carpathian trembitas head East

Ivano-Frankivsk (Western Ukraine) has launched an action event called “Trembity z Toretska” (Trembitas from Toretsk). Volunteers from Donetsk…

byUkrinform