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Separatists open fire when OSCE patrol discovers banned weapons

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) said it recorded shooting at the time the monitors …
Interfax-Ukraine

Halya Coynash: Russia uses human trafficking to force Ukrainians to fight in Donbas

It is not only Maidan activists and known opponents of the Kremlin who should beware of visiting Russia. It is increasingly clear that any Ukrainian …
Halya Coynash

The Guardian: Avdiyivka under fire as violence flares again on frontline of Ukraine war

Not much is audible over the noise of the hulking, powerful machinery at Avdiyivka’s sprawling factory – except for the artillery barrages. Since the …
The Guardian

Leonid Bershidsky: A NATO of the mind limits Putin’s sphere of influence

The future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization may be in question thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s dismissal of it as “obsolete,” but …
Leonid Bershidsky

Ukroboronprom develops new air-to-ground rocket

Ukrainian state defense industry holding Ukroboronprom says it has successfully produced and tested a new air-to-ground rocket system designed to be …
Illia Ponomarenko

One Ukrainian soldier wounded in Donbas

One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action near the town of Avdiyivka in Donbas on Feb. 12, Ukrainian defense ministry speaker Oleksandr Motuzianyk …
Interfax-Ukraine

Gwendolyn Sasse: The voices of the displaced in Ukraine and Russia

In early 2017, the war in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donbas intensified after a lull and regained a temporary media presence. However, the views of …
Gwendolyn Sasse

Russian writer Prilepin joins Kremlin-backed forces in Donbas

A Russian nationalist writer has joined a band of Kremlin-backed fighters in the Donbas, and says his ultimate goal is to march on the Ukrainian …
Alyona Zhuk

UNIAN: Ukraine lodges suit against Russia with WTO over transit restrictions

As a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Russia for the introduction of numerous transit restrictions on …
UNIAN

Halya Coynash: Russia invents ‘terrorism’ and fights children in Crimea

It is a year since the multiple armed searches of at least 11 homes in Russian-occupied Crimea and arrests of four men, including a human rights …
Halya Coynash

UNIAN: Dzhemilev says spoke with Putin by phone ahead of Crimea ‘referendum’

Before the start of the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with one of the leaders of …
UNIAN

Halya Coynash: OSCE monitors reject Russian foreign minister’s lies about Donbas escalation

The problem with fighting fake news from Russia is that it often comes from top officials in Moscow like Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister. …
Halya Coynash

Reuters: NATO says it sees sharp rise in Russian disinformation since Crimea seizure

NATO accused Russia of escalating a disinformation campaign since the Kremlin’s 2014 seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea region, saying Russian websites such …
Reuters

OSCE reports nine killed, over 40 injured in Donbas from January 29 to February 9

DONETSK – Nine people were killed and 41 injured in Donbas from Jan. 29 to Feb. 9, Alexander Hug, first deputy head of the Organization for Security …
Interfax-Ukraine

Washington Post: Ukraine turns a blind eye to ultrarightist militia

MARIYINKA, Ukraine — A jeep hurtles down a long, potholed road toward the front line. Inside, Misha, Monarch and Dinamo balance their assault rifles …
Washington Post

Paul A. Goble: Like Hitler, Putin told the West in advance what he’d do – and the West ignored him

Ten years ago this week, Vladimir Putin told the Munich Security Conference exactly what he intended to do to oppose the West and restore Russia’s …
Paul A. Goble

RFE/RL: Beneath Ukraine’s battlefields, some sanctuary and sparkling wine

You wouldn’t know by Yuriy Ivanovich’s calm demeanor or the elegance he uses to describe the bubbles rising in his champagne flute that we’re directly …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UNIAN: Defense Ministry reports two Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas in past 24 hours

On the Mariupol line, militants mortared the positions of the Ukrainian forces in the area of Krasnohorivka and Pavlopil, the report reads. Grenade …
UNIAN
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