UkraineAlert by Alvydas Medalinskas “Mother Russia, take Donbas home.” This dramatic appeal by Kremlin TV chief Margarita Simonyan was the headline-grabbing highlight of the recent Russian Donbas Forum, which took place in Occupied East Ukraine on January 28 and signaled a fresh escalation in Moscow’s seven-year hybrid war against Ukraine. Simonyan’s words carry significant weight. As chief editor of the

The previous “referendum” in May 2014 was not recognized by Ukraine and the international community. The so-called “leader” of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”), Denis Pushilin, says another “referendum on self-determination” could be held in the Russia-occupied part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region. He announced this in a comment for the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. Pushilin claims it will

With the seventh anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine now approaching, many people have recently asked me, “What’s next?” As a negotiator in the Trilateral Contact Group formed to end the conflict in Ukraine, and as Ukraine’s minister in charge of the reintegration of the temporarily occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts and Crimea, I

On social media, he shared photos from Donetsk region where he posed with other mercenaries, holding weapons. The body of a former fighter of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) terrorist organization has been found in the town of Murino in Russia’s Leningrad region. The man whose body showed signs of violence was a 37-year-old Russian mercenary, Andrey Chekin, who

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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