With the sixth year of warfare in Donbas, the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine seems nowhere in sight. Russia is playing the long game. The Minsk agreements ostensibly set up to broker a peace agreement are a win-win for Russia...
Whenever the connection of Russian military personnel to events in Transnistria, the separatist-controlled territory of Moldova, or in the occupied territories of Ukraine’s Donbas, come up, Russia is quick to deny they were there at...
What are the Minsk Agreements? The Minsk Protocol (later known as Minsk-1) with the Minsk Memorandum of September 2014 and the Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements (Minsk-2) are agreements between Ukraine and...
Why are the UN peacekeepers not still deployed in the conflict zone in the Donbas? Ukraine has been calling to deploy a UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbas since February 2015. Russia had rejected any peacekeeping efforts since...
Read the prisoner swap story: Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics” Three years behind bars in his occupied hometown Yenhen Chudnetsov, a resident of occupied...
As several amendments to the initial draft resolution were passed, 56 delegates representing the PACE member states favored the resolution, no member voted against, 10 abstained. The Assembly calls on all member states to...
On 18 January 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament, or Verkhovna Rada, adopted the law on the reintegration of Donbas in its second reading, with 280 out of the total 450 deputies voted in favor. The law gives Russia the status of an occupying...
– The number one mission for anyone who loves Ukraine is protecting Ukraine, but not only in the military sphere. I’m talking about the spiritual defense of our country, because Russia is conducting a hybrid war against all of...
Serhey Filonenko, Buddhist monk: “Everything that happened is connected with the Donbas and with war. Everything has started from there. I am from Donetsk, for example.” Yet their arrival has not been welcomed by all...
Kirill Second-year student at Donetsk National University “Leisure time or holidays? What’re you talking about?… Who’re you kidding? You know, I hardly have time to study… and never mind have fun with...
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...
