Russian counterparts who reside in Ukraine must unite in a “powerful pro-Russian movement”, Andrey Kozenko said Andrei Kozenko, the lawmaker of Russia’s State Duma from the annexed Crimea claimed that the areas of temporarily occupied Donbas are “special subjects” of the Russian Federation. The video with his comment is published on the Union TV company’s YouTube channel, Strana.ua reports.  “We’re

In the temporarily occupied Kulikovo of Donetsk region, an insurgent of the so-called “ DPR”, while in a state of drug-alcohol intoxication, shot his colleagues from his company. This was reported by the press headquarters of the operation of the United Forces on Facebook. “One of the unit’s militants, who was on duty at one of the forefront in the trench, in a state

The conflict sparked during the celebration of the New Year in the village of Viktorivka, in Donetsk region’s Volnovakha district. A house was burnt down in Russian-occupied Donbas amid a brawl between local militants and Russian mercenaries, as they were firing weapons, according to the Ukrainian Joint Forces’ intelligence data. “The conflict sparked during the celebration of the New Year

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed a prisoner swap completed on Sunday between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, they said in a joint statement. Remaining detainees in the five-year conflict were bussed to an exchange point in the breakaway Donbass region, in an exchange that was agreed upon

At the same time, Lavrov stressed that “progress in the settlement could be achieved only through a direct dialogue between the parties to the conflict – Kyiv, Donetsk and Luhansk.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said “there are still hopes” for the Donbas settlement under Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Within five months, he [Zelensky] has managed to do what