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Peace to Ukraine
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How Ukraine can defeat Russia
With the sixth year of warfare in Donbas, the end of Russia’s war against Ukraine seems nowhere in…
Traps of the Transnistrian conflict
Whenever the connection of Russian military personnel to events in Transnistria, the separatist-controlled territory of Moldova, or in…
Everything you wanted to know about the Minsk peace deal, but were afraid to ask
What are the Minsk Agreements? The Minsk Protocol (later known as Minsk-1) with the Minsk Memorandum of September…
Will a UN peacekeeping operation finally unfold in the occupied Donbas?
Why are the UN peacekeepers not still deployed in the conflict zone in the Donbas? Ukraine has been calling…
A month of freedom: released hostages tell about captivity and torture in occupied Donbas
Read the prisoner swap story: Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics” Three…
PACE urges Russia end support to illegal armed groups in Donbas, cease repressions in Crimea
As several amendments to the initial draft resolution were passed, 56 delegates representing the PACE member states favored the resolution,…
No longer ATO, not yet a war. Ukraine adopts controversial “Donbas reintegration” bill
On 18 January 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament, or Verkhovna Rada, adopted the law on the reintegration of Donbas…
Chaplain Mykola: For patriotic priests, the “front line” represents all of Ukraine!
– The number one mission for anyone who loves Ukraine is protecting Ukraine, but not only in the…
Donbas Buddhist monks settle in Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains after fleeing war
Serhey Filonenko, Buddhist monk: “Everything that happened is connected with the Donbas and with war. Everything has started from…
What do teens in occupied Donetsk want in life?
Kirill Second-year student at Donetsk National University “Leisure time or holidays? What’re you talking about?… Who’re you kidding?…
“My spirit is not broken”: one Ukrainian soldier’s harrowing account of surviving in captivity
Three years in separatist captivity in eastern Ukraine have taken a toll on Mykola Herasymenko’s health. He has…
Torture and humiliation: freed Ukrainians talk about Donbas captivity
Ivan Tyrenko is a released hostage who is undergoing rehabilitation at Kyiv’s the Feofaniya Clinical Hospital. He says…
Largest prisoner swap in Donbas: 73 Ukrainians released from captivity of Russian-run “republics”
Russia had effectively blocked the prisoner exchange process in the Donbas for 15 months from September 2016, when two Ukrainian…
What Ukraine can take from the “Croatian Scenario” of conflict resolution
What do people mean by “the Croatian Scenario”? What time does it refer to? The “Croatian Scenario” refers…
Another ceasefire begins in Donbas after pullout of Russian observers followed by escalation
Russia’s pullout from ceasefire monitoring team The Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) for the issues of ceasefire and…
UGCC Major Archbishop Svyatoslav: “The war will stop when we stop pretending there’s no war!”
Such an opinion was recently expressed in a radio broadcast by the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic…
Children of war: 17-year-old Misha and Artur talk about their fathers, childhood and war
My father, Viktor Makidon, was an officer in the Myrotvorets Battalion. He died of a heart attack in…
Ukraine may swap its 74 hostages in occupied Donbas before New Year
The prisoner swap process had been de-facto blocked by Russia for 15 months. The last exchange took place on…
Portnikov: Putin has four Donbas scenarios and will choose worst one for Ukraine
Moscow completely controls the situation in the occupied Donbas, Vitaly Portnikov says; and consequently, one should not view…
Russian proxy republic leader in Donbas threatens to attack UN peacekeeper mission
Deynega underlined that “not one single man bearing a weapon will enter “LNR-controlled” territory”. When Leonardo Svidovsky, the…