No rest for the brave. How Ukraine’s legendary “Badgers” work & fight in the war zone (photo report)
They call themselves “Badgers”, referring to their commander, Vadym Sukharevsky, call sign “Badger”, commander of the 503rd Marine…
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Czech courts sentenced two more Donbas fighters to 20 years on terrorist charges
“Behemoth” On 7 September, the Prague City Court sentenced in absentia to 20 years of prison time Czech…
Russian company relocated to Siberia 2,000 Ukrainian miners with their families
The Russian company, which is owned, in particular, by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s friend Gennady Tymchenko, doesn’t hide…
Ukraine at 30: reflecting on Ukraine’s path toward Western integration
Independence Day of Ukraine: facts & brief history After an unsuccessful coup attempt by hardline Communist Party leaders…
Pregnant, tortured, seriously ill: the women devoured by concentration camp of Russian-occupied Donbas
These women include Oksana Parshyna, a pregnant woman detained on 14 May; Nataliya Statsenko, a doctor with a…
What would happen if Ukraine implements the controversial Steinmeier formula for Donbas?
On 3 August, the press center of the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Crisis Media Center hosted the presentation of the…
Putin’s essay on Russia and Ukraine about far larger issues than that, Yavlinsky says
That it was a fundamentally imperialist challenge to the existence not just of Ukraine but of all Russia’s…
Russia’s ruling party starts campaigning in occupied Donbas for upcoming Duma elections
Developments in “DNR” and “LNR”: 23 June – 22 July 2021 Russian election campaign begins in Donetsk and…
Putin’s fixation on Ukraine is demagogic, delusional and dangerous
One impression from the lengthy and stylistically incoherent text is that the author is deeply involved with the…
US-Germany Nord Stream 2 agreement — a victory for Russia
At the same time, European gas storage levels are at only 53 percent of their capacity, or nearly…
UN releases data on Donbas war victims starting from 2014
In response to a request from RFE/RL, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has…
Putin’s new article – ‘ideological justification for a future war,’ Pastukhov says
As such, Putin’s article is a kind of justification for action, “although Putin doesn’t understand this,” the London-based…
Why the West should be paying close attention to Putin’s article
This thinly veiled ode to Pan-Slavism attempts to bind the fate of Russia and Ukraine together in a…
Digital sleuths name soldiers from Murmansk and Chechnya who fought against Ukraine in 2014
For the seventh year now, starting from the first weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’s Crimea, the…
MH17 trial: Donbas “rebels” sent targets for Russia’s artillery attacks on Ukrainian bases
The regular court hearing in The Netherlands in the case of the downing of flight MH17 where these…
Putin’s penchant for drawing and crossing ‘red lines’
One area where a significant step forward was supposed to be made in Geneva is cybersecurity, and Moscow…
Putin offering Ukraine same deal Stalin offered West Germany in 1952, Piontkovsky says
Adenauer at the time replied that he preferred to remain the chancellor of half of Germany than become…
Information warfare at sea
Not a day goes by without news from the south of Ukraine. Russia has recently deployed all of…
Putin believes only annexing Ukraine will allow Russia to be a superpower without harm to its ethnic Russian core, Eidman says
When Vladimir Putin said during his “Direct Line” broadcast that his “main achievement” lies ahead, he provided a…
Torture and imprisonment is the price of freedom of speech in Russia-occupied Crimea
While the first victims of Russian repressions in occupied Crimea were pro-Ukrainian activists who openly resisted occupation, today…
