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RFE/RL: Pence says US to hold Russia ‘accountable for its actions’

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has told leaders of the Western Balkans that the United States will continue to hold Russia “accountable for its …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Reuters: Sanctions gap lets Western firms tap Russian frontier oil

OSLO/MOSCOW – A gap in U.S. sanctions allows Western companies to help Russia develop some of its most technically challenging oil reserves, and risks …
Reuters

Oksana Grytsenko: Looking for humanity in Donbas war

For coverage of the more than 1,000 people missing since Russia launched its war against Ukraine in 2014, see also Oksana Grytsenko’s articles …
Oksana Grytsenko

Boston Herald: Taking on Vladimir Putin

It has been three and a half years since Russian forces annexed the Ukrainian territory of Crimea and then set their sights on the eastern region, …
Boston Herald

112.ua: Separatists detain driver and OSCE truck in Donetsk region

The Russia-backed separatists detained the driver and the truck with equipment for the camera of the OSCE SMM for more than seven hours in Donbas. The …
112.ua

Wall Street Journal: A Trump card in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has assumed he can seize territory without endangering his grip on power at home, and he’s been right. But what if the U.S. changed …
Wall Street Journal

Almost 470 Ukrainian airborne troops killed since start of war in Donbas

Since the start of the war in eastern Ukraine some 467 airborne troops of Ukraine’s armed forces have been killed, General Staff chief Viktor Muzhenko …
Interfax-Ukraine

Deutsche Welle: NATO in Baltics learns from Ukraine’s mistakes

As Russian-backed forces wreaked havoc among disorganized, often lightly armored, and mostly ad-hoc Ukrainian troops, the Baltic states watched. Now …
Deutsche Welle

Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine is meeting in Minsk

The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine began a meeting in Minsk on August 2 afternoon, Darka Olifer, press secretary for former Ukrainian President …
Interfax-Ukraine

Lubomyr Luciuk: What Ukraine is fighting for

I’m not as good a runner as I used to be. This revelation came somewhere between the ninth and first floors of a murky, bomb-ravaged building located …
Lubomyr Luciuk

Halya Coynash: Russia imprisons Crimeans in inhuman conditions for their faith or pro-Ukrainian stand

46-year-old Volodymyr Balukh is suffering from heart problems and high blood pressure after 6 months in a filthy and overcrowded Crimean SIZO [remand …
Halya Coynash

Halya Coynash: Donbas separatists ‘sentence’ blogger to 14 years for ‘spreading negative information’

A so-called military court in the separatist-held Luhansk has sentenced two Ukrainians to huge sentences for what it calls ‘state treason’. Since the …
Halya Coynash

UNIAN: One Ukrainian soldier killed, one wounded in Donbas

Russia-backed separatists attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 28 times in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in …
UNIAN

Kyiv to sue Russia over navigation restrictions in Kerch Strait

The navigation restrictions introduced by Russia in the Kerch Strait in relation to the bridge construction caused Ukrainian ports to sustain losses, …
Interfax-Ukraine

Kyiv reports Ukrainian soldier’s injury in Donbas

A military was injured in the shelling on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Donbas on August 1, the press center of the Ukrainian Army said. Ten …
Interfax-Ukraine

Halya Coynash: Russia sentences Ukrainian pensioner to 12 years for ’sabotage’

A military court in Rostov has sentenced 61-year-old Oleksiy Sizonovych to 12 years in a maximum security prison on charges of planning acts of …
Halya Coynash

Hromadske TV: Yegor Firsov on the disappearance of journalist Stanislav Aseev (VIDEO)

For years, Stanislav Aseev had secretly chronicled life in Ukraine’s occupied east for pro-Kyiv media. Then the separatists found him and accused him …
Hromadske

John Vinocur: The Germany that no one bargained for

When Vladimir Putin apparently promised that four Siemens gas turbines sold last year for use in a Russian power plant would reach their intended …
John Vinocur
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