Three years in separatist captivity in eastern Ukraine have taken a toll on Mykola Herasymenko’s health. He has constant headaches, and the chronic pain in his back makes walking a struggle. Doctors are in the process of doing more...
Ivan Tyrenko is a released hostage who is undergoing rehabilitation at Kyiv’s the Feofaniya Clinical Hospital. He says his condition is good. He jokes a lot and realizes, little by little, that he is finally free. Tyrenko was one of...
Russia had effectively blocked the prisoner exchange process in the Donbas for 15 months from September 2016, when two Ukrainian nationals were released from captivity. This September Ukraine was ready to release...
What do people mean by “the Croatian Scenario”? What time does it refer to? The “Croatian Scenario” refers to the Balkans in the mid 1990s. At that time, the Croatian War of Independence was taking...
Russia’s pullout from ceasefire monitoring team The Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) for the issues of ceasefire and stabilization of the delimitation line was created in September 2014 in the East-Ukrainian...
Such an opinion was recently expressed in a radio broadcast by the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), His Holiness Svyatoslav, when he was asked what we, the citizens of Ukraine, should and could do to stop the war in the...
My father, Viktor Makidon, was an officer in the Myrotvorets Battalion. He died of a heart attack in Sloviansk on July 22, 2014. He had retired before the war started in Eastern Ukraine, but decided returned to his duties as a policeman...
The prisoner swap process had been de-facto blocked by Russia for 15 months. The last exchange took place on 17 September 2016, when Ukrainian nationals Volodymyr Zhemchuhov and UN mission employee Yurii Suprun were released from...
Moscow completely controls the situation in the occupied Donbas, Vitaly Portnikov says; and consequently, one should not view what is going on there in recent days as any threat to its ability to dictate outcomes but only as an occasion...
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...
In August 2022, CBS released its documentary on military aid to Ukraine, filmed in April. The film claims that a major portion of Western military help goes missing in Ukraine but provides no proof other than short remarks from one...
