The first large-scale list of sanctions by the Ukrainian authorities raised many questions from the world community. In the "black list" along with the leaders of the self-proclaimed republics of the DPR and LPR, as well as a large number of Russian officials, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the General Staff Valery ...
The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) receive 2,5 billion rubles from Russia monthly to pay pensions, Bloomberg reports, citing two sources in the local administration. Worried about their own safety, the interlocutors of the publication refused to publish their names. Meanwhile, the director ...
The conflict in eastern Ukraine led to the fact that hundreds of thousands of Donbass residents became refugees. September 5 marks a year since the signing of the first Minsk Agreement, which provides for a ceasefire in the region, but it is still far from a full-fledged truce and a solution to the territorial issue. ...
At the end of 2014, serious contradictions arose between the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Alexander Zakharchenko and the security forces of this terrorist organization because of the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, according to hackers of the group “Anonymous International” (“Humpty Dumpty”). The hackers' website has published documents that allegedly reveal...
The Federal Gazette of the US Government has published a full list of individuals and entities that have come under extended sectoral sanctions against Russia. Thus, the sanctions took effect. Ukraine's Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly announced this on Facebook. To the extended sanctions list ...
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced suspicion to the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov. The head of the Main Investigation Department of the SBU, Grigory Ostafiychuk, and the chief military prosecutor, Antoliy Matios, said this at a briefing. “Individual military personnel, under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff, Mr. Gerasimov,...
Relatives of 18 passengers on the Malaysia Airlines plane, which crashed in an armed conflict zone in eastern Ukraine last July, filed a lawsuit against one of the former leaders of the supporters of the self-proclaimed Donbass republics Igor Girkin, better known as Strelkov, in an American court. The applicants ...
Five Russian generals play key roles in organizing and commanding separatist forces in southeastern Ukraine. This is stated in the dossier of the Ukrainian special services, which Kiev sent to Washington in the administration of US President Barack Obama. It is reported that the document was sent back in June, ...
“State security agencies” of the “DPR” detained a special correspondent for the Russian “Novaya Gazeta” Pavel Kanygin on suspicion of working for the Ukrainian media. The editors of the publication published a commentary on this matter. “Our special correspondent in Donbass Pavel Kanygin just informed the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta about...
The self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics recognized Crimea and Sevastopol as an integral part of Ukraine. The corresponding formulations are contained in the draft amendments to the Constitution of the country proposed by the republics, which was sent to the contact group on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass. The document is available for download at ...