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.
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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.
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.
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."
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
Carpathian trembitas head East
Ivano-Frankivsk (Western Ukraine) has launched an action event called “Trembity z Toretska” (Trembitas from Toretsk). Volunteers from Donetsk…