According to the diplomats, Russia may unilaterally recognize the so-called “LPR” and “DPR” as “independent republics.” The Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) has said Russia is trying to legitimize its “puppet” formations, the so-called “Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics” (“LPR/DPR”), by engaging them in the highest international platforms, in particular the UN, as well as by possible

He participated in subversive operations against Ukrainian soldiers near the town of Zolote in Luhansk region. A former sniper who was a member of an illegal armed formation controlled by the self-proclaimed “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) and fought against Ukraine’s military in Donbas has been detained in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. This was announced by the press center of

Slovyansk (Ukraine) (AFP) President Volodymyr Zelensky rose to power last year on a pledge to end the conflict in eastern Ukraine which has left Russia-backed separatists controlling two areas of the country and thousands dead. But nowhere has the failure so far to fulfil that pledge fallen more flat than in the east itself, where Russian-speaking inhabitants yearn for a

As expected, the negotiation process has reached an impasse in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG, Minsk Group) that tries to resolve the conflict in the east of Ukraine ongoing for more than six years now. The talks have faced a stalemate in the same way as many times before when Russia resorted to demanding Ukraine to fulfill the points of

According to Stanychno-Luhanska District State Administration, Russian-occupation forces in Donbas are shelling the forestland near the entry-exit checkpoint, as a result of which new wildfires emerge. “According to the residents of Stanytsia Luhanska, starting from 23:30 shots from large-caliber weapons from the occupied territory were recorded. After that loud explosions of shells were noted in the area of the entry-exit

According to a DM source, he will accept the offer, subject to the release of Witold Fokin. Diplomat Markiyan Lubkivsky told Media Detector that he had received an offer to join the Ukrainian delegation to the Tripartite Contact Group for the Peaceful Settlement of the Situation in Eastern Ukraine from the head of the delegation to the TCG Leonid Kravchuk and the Office of

If the Verkhovna Rada does not change the resolution on local elections, it will block not only the exchange of prisoners, but also all the work of the Trilateral Contact Group on the Peaceful Settlement of the Situation in Donbas. The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG, Ukraine’s first president Leonid Kravchuk, said this in a comment to

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in response to the statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the lack of progress in the implementation of the Minsk agreements has recalled that the Minsk agreements signed by the Russian Federation in 2014 confirm its status as a party to the conflict. “I am especially offended to read these words of Minister

The barbaric and thoughtless closure of the mines, which was started this year by representatives of the illegal armed groups “LPR-DPR”, led to the expected consequences, which were warned by environmentalists. An ecological catastrophe has started in Donbass. Due to the cessation of mine drains, rivers, ponds and reservoirs in the region are rapidly losing water and sinking. And so far it is

Editor’s Note Amid the mass protests in the city of Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East, a Russian commenter explains how the predominantly Ukrainian past of the entire region is now largely and intentionally ignored by the Russian authorities.Most Russians and many outsiders believe that when the Russian Empire acquired the Far East, it dispatched Russians to settle the area

On July 22, the Trilateral Contact Group held a video conference during which all the parties agreed on a new and comprehensive ceasefire in the Donbas. In particular, the parties – the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the so called “DNR/LNR authorities” – agreed to ban offensive, reconnaissance and sabotage operations, as well as operations of any types