On 15 January, Ukrainian military reporter Andrii Tsaplienko shared a photo of OSCE-marked vehicles transported near the Izvaryne border checkpoint in occupied Luhansk Oblast near the Russian border. OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission...
An unrecognized “court” in Russia’s proxy “Luhansk People’s Republic” had “sentenced” two Ukrainians working for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine to 13 years in prison for...
Ukraine’s use of a Turkish-made Bayraktar drone has drawn the ire of Germany’s Foreign Ministry. “Berlin is very concerned about the increase in the intensity of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, as well as the message of...
The OSCE had mandated the OM in 2014 to watch the cross-border traffic, which at that time and thereafter included Russian military equipment and personnel en route to Russian and proxy forces in Ukraine’s Donbas. Those same forces...
The truce came into force on 27 July and was violated by Russian-backed forces which shelled Ukrainian Army positions after some mere minutes. The agreement on the truce was reached on 22 July at a regular meeting of the Trilateral Contact...
Those in Ukraine and elsewhere who fear that the Steinmeier plan will end by becoming the Putin plan are justified in their concerns as even the most superficial examination of what has happened elsewhere along Russia’s periphery...
“I think it is an exaggeration” In the course of the following day, several Russian and Ukrainian media quoted Ms. Serova’s statements. Some of them questioned if she would, in fact, have been able to follow the...
On 28 June, Ukrainian top Minsk negotiator Leonid Kuchma visited the location to inspect the withdrawal and an army press officer told at a press briefing: “Today after we received guarantees from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission...
Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian client statelet, the Donetsk Peoples Republic, has called for the confiscation of all agricultural food products and their being handed over to his regime, an ugly order in...
Deynega underlined that “not one single man bearing a weapon will enter “LNR-controlled” territory”. When Leonardo Svidovsky, the host of Theme of the Day asked him whether UN peacekeeping forces would be...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
