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“Angels” risked everything to bring them home — Ukrainian soldiers escape from Russian forced labor in occupied Luhansk

Ukrainian Naval special intelligence unit “Angels” has reported successfully returning home a 29-year-old Armed Forces veteran and a…

byOlena Mukhina

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Single act of sabotage 500 kilometers inside Russia rippled into ammunition shortages at front

Partisans disrupted the North Caucasus rail lifeline, leaving artillery units waiting for munitions that never came.

byOlena Mukhina

The Kerch bridge, also known as the Crimean bridge

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Ukraine’s cyber warriors crush Russian control systems in Crimea, steal 100TB of secrets

A covert cyber assault crippled occupation networks, downloaded troves of classified data, then wiped everything clean.

byOlena Mukhina

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Ukraine rewrites Budapest Memorandum with 40 burning Russian jets targeted by drones launched from cargo trucks

A coordinated drone strike inside Russia marks a new chapter in Ukraine’s fight for sovereignty and security.

byOlena Mukhina

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Ukrainian Special Forces in secret mission against Russians in Sudan – WSJ

In a bid to undermine Russian influence and deprive the Wagner group of gold mining profits, Ukrainian special forces have been deployed to Africa.

byYevheniia Martyniuk

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Putin’s shift on Skripal case makes a broader war more likely, Pastukhov says

By insisting that Skripal deserved his fate rather than simply denying that Moscow had anything to do with…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin speaking in occupied Sevastopol on the anniversary of the WW2 Victory Day to celebrate Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine conducted by his military and special forces two months earlier. May 9, 2014 (Image: kremlin.ru)

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Putin didn’t annex Crimea to boost his ratings, Portnikov says

Many commentators are suggesting that Vladimir Putin may seek “a new Crimea” to salvage his ratings with the…

byPaul A. Goble

RT America - Kremlins special operation - Made in Moscow - Danger highly toxic - Handle with care (Image: Euromaidan Press)

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Moscow deploys the most dangerous kind of disinformation against Ukraine

Lies are one thing; disinformation quite another, as the late Nathalie Grant warned decades ago. The first can…

byPaul A. Goble

Image: "Putinist Russia" by Saint Tepes via DeviantArt.com

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Putin can’t ‘catch up and surpass West’ — he can only exploit divisions and spread chaos, Yakovenko says

For more than 200 years, Russian leaders were inspired by the idea that their country could “catch up…

byPaul A. Goble

A painting of Trump, Putin and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen prominently displayed at a Trump party in Moscow hosted by Kremlin functionaries to celebrate his election as US president, which was facilitated by Russia's covert meddling. Russia's meddling in French elections six month later to help Le Pen backfired and she lost to Emmanuel Macron. November 2016, Moscow, Russia (Image: mogaznews.com)

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Putin conducts his foreign policy like a special op, Melnikov says

Vladimir Putin is conducting his foreign policy like the special op of an intelligence service, reflecting both his…

byPaul A. Goble

Putin’s special operations achieve a second and larger victory when they are exposed

Many in the US and elsewhere are horrified by Vladimir Putin’s overt and covert efforts to affect the…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russia using “organized chaos” to subvert Ukrainian government – analyst

Russia’s hybrid aggression unleashed against Ukraine has transitioned to a phase where Moscow seeks non-military means of 'resolving'…

byInformation Resistance

Trump and Putin. (Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Aleksey Nikolskyi/Getty Images and Jim Watson/Getty Images.)

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Trump Revolution: From Russia With Revenge

Last week the Washington Post Deputy Editorial Director Jackson Diehl published an article titled "Putin's hope to ignite Eurasia-style protests in the…

byKseniya Kirillova

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Putin has launched ‘world war against trust,’ Yakovenko says

US President Barack Obama put his finger on what Vladimir Putin is about when he said after his…

byPaul A. Goble

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How Russia’s use of deniable assets bamboozled western security services

"Russia... That realm of darkness which oppresses Ukraine." - Ivan Franko There are some predators, such as…

byStephen Komarnyckyj

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Ukraine publishes video proving Kremlin directed separatism in eastern Ukraine and Crimea

On 22 August 2016, Ukraine’s General Prosecutors Office (GPO) released a video it says proves that top officials of…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

Information war. Propaganda (Image: belvpo.com)

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Ukrainians parroting Moscow’s line more dangerous than Russians who do, Portnikov says

The Kremlin understands that most Ukrainians distrust Russian media outlets and so has made a major effort to…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian military firing on Ukrainian positions from high caliber machine gun near Donetsk in July 2016. (Image: social media)

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Why the slow-burning Russo-Ukrainian war suddenly has gotten much hotter

A UN agency says the number of civilians who died as a result of the fighting in the…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian football/soccer fans at 2016 UEFA European Cup in France: "Crimea is ours, Marseilles is ours!"

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Russian football louts in Marseilles part of Putin’s ‘hybrid war’ against the West

The attack of Russian football louts against English fans in Marseilles was a well-organized action that was part…

byPaul A. Goble

The Russian occupation force in the Donbas ordered a large supply of fake Ukrainian uniforms (Image: Ukrayinska Pravda)

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War in Donbas

Putin’s hybrid force in Donbas accepting a large delivery of fake Ukrainian combat uniforms

On a procurement order from the Russian hybrid military force in the Donbas, a garment factory in Donetsk [in Russia-occupied…

byUkrayinska Pravda