Why are the UN peacekeepers not still deployed in the conflict zone in the Donbas? Ukraine has been calling to deploy a UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbas since February 2015. Russia had rejected any peacekeeping efforts since...
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...
The failure of Vladimir Putin to get a sit down with Donald Trump represents “the agony of the Kremlin’s ‘Trump is Ours’ special operation” and is leading some in Putin’s entourage to think about...
On 20 September 2017, at the United Nation’s General Assembly (UNGA), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for the deployment of a UN-led peacekeeping mission to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine that would...
Poroshenko stressed that there is undeniable proof of Russian involvement in the conflict as he showed the military IDs: “The Russia’s mantra that ‘we are not there’ does not hold water. There are undeniable...
Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin stated that no one in the UN Security Council supported the Russian formula for a UN peacekeeping mission in the Donbas. The minister’s statement was made against the...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
