Aleksandr Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian-backed “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine, has been reportedly killed in an explosion in central Donetsk. The news was reported by local...
On 22 February 2014, after three months of protests during the Euromaidan revolution and over a hundred dead, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled Kyiv, was swiftly impeached by the Ukrainian parliament and ended up in Russia....
Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian client statelet, the Donetsk Peoples Republic, has called for the confiscation of all agricultural food products and their being handed over to his regime, an ugly order in...
Background of the takeover of Donbas The protests against the Euromaidan (2013-2014) in Luhansk and Donetsk were mostly staged by pro-Russian local elites, linked to the Yanukovych’s Party of Regions (PoR). However, Russia...
During the previous week, the Russian-installed leader of Donetsk Aleksandr Zakharchenko informed that his political rival Denis Pushilin, speaker of the so-called People’s Soviet of the DNR, was dismissed from one of his posts,...
Russia is a huge insane asylum whose patients live in their own political and historical reality. But the cries of a madman do not need to lead to any action. The statement by the chieftain of the Donetsk mercenaries Alexander Zakharchenko...
The leader of the Donetsk separatists, Alexander Zakharchenko, made it clear that his “people’s republic” wants to be recognized by Ukraine, thus adding yet another condition unacceptable to Kiev in the ongoing...
On 8 February 2017, at 6:12 AM, Mykhailo Tolstykh, callsign “Givi,” was killed in his office in occupied Donetsk, the “Ministry of Defense” of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” reported. Givi was the...
Moscow may or may not use the “LNR” or “DNR” to renew its aggression against Ukraine, but it now faces the challenge of preventing the two from going to war against each other, one it can meet, but that by...
Two years after tragic events at Euromaidan and the escape of disgraced president Victor Yanukovych, Ukraine is changing, but it is also facing big challenges – the war with Russia, the occupation of Crimea, and disappointment with...
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...
