In early May, my friends and I decided to take a trip to the village Bohdanivka with to see how it was doing now, after nearly a month of occupation by Russian forces. Located 37 km from Kyiv, it bore the main brunt of the battle for the...
The report’s authors conclude that the informational influence of Russia on Ukrainian society remains “relevant and systemic,” “the Kremlin shows a high degree of adaptability, increasingly relying on local agents...
Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea and that it has promoted demographic change there in violation of the Geneva Convention. But Ukrainian experts are...
On 6 June, the NGO Myrnyi Bereh presented its report titled “Executed in Donbas” in Kyiv. Human rights activists, lawyers, and civil investigators collected information on 95 cases of intentional homicides and...
At a minimum, 9640 people have been killed and 22,431 wounded as a result of military actions in eastern Ukraine, according to the United Nations monitoring mission’s latest quarterly report. But the document notes that the indirect...
On June 29, in response to the continuous massive firing on their positions, the Ukrainian army was forced to retaliate with two brief hits at the advance positions of the 7th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Army Corps of the Russian...
A new 156-page investigative report identifies for the first time perpetrators of war crimes in Russia’s war in East Ukraine. The extensive evidence presented will be submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague which...
On JULY 17, 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed in Eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. A preliminary report by the Dutch Safety Board released on September 9, 2014 based on examination of the debris, covering a large...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
