The Bellingcat research team handed over a report to the Netherlands, which lists the names of the Russian military, allegedly involved in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk. A spokesman for the Dutch prosecutor's office, Wim de Brune, promised to carefully study the report and "determine whether it can be used in a criminal investigation." Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins in an interview with the Dutch television channel NOS said that by the crash of Boeing, ...
2015 was wonderful and terrible. The terrorists of the "Islamic State" entered the international arena, the world was replenished with two princesses, scientists found water on Mars, and the Kremlin turned its attention from Donbass to Syria. “Forum” collected the most important and interesting stories of the year. Some of them,…
In Stockholm, within the framework of the traditional Nobel week, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich delivered a lecture, who won the 2015 prize in literature. The award for the classic of Russian-language literature was awarded with the wording "for the polyphonic sounding of prose and the perpetuation of suffering and courage." The Nobel Prize Ceremony will take place ...
Over the past 24 hours, provocations by militants were recorded along the entire Ukrainian front line, five Ukrainian soldiers were killed and four were injured, said Andrei Lysenko, spokesman for the anti-terrorist operation (ATO). “This happened during the clashes in Verkhnetoretskoye and Marinka,” he said.…
Despite the declared truce and the withdrawal of weapons from the demarcation line, militants of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) periodically carry out armed provocations. “Starting at 7:50, Russian-terrorist mercenaries fired indirectly eight times from grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms...
Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that his country intends to demand from Russia at least a trillion dollars for the annexed Crimea and the destroyed Donbass. The Ukrainian prime minister noted that Kiev is now preparing for a legal war with Russia. In addition to compensation, the subject of legal proceedings may ...
The head of the Dutch Security Council, Tijbb Jostra, presented the final report on the investigation into the crash of a Boeing passenger plane over Ukraine. Experts answered key questions: what shot down the plane? Where was the rocket launched from? Why was the plane flying over a military conflict zone? What hit the plane? A passenger airliner was shot down...
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was destroyed by a Buk launcher from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade based outside Kursk, according to the report. The Bellingcat international research group has released a final investigation into the terrorist attack against Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, shot down by a Buk missile launcher in the occupied Donetsk region in the summer ...
The representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk “People’s Republic” (DPR) Denis Pushilin announced the actual end of the war in Donbass. Thus, he assessed the signing of an agreement on the withdrawal of weapons with a caliber of less than one hundred millimeters from the line of contact of the parties to the conflict. The agreement provides for the creation of a buffer zone of thirty kilometers. “Based on this, it will be extremely...
“The psychological state of a fighter depends on his everyday life. I, as a commander, set a goal for myself to ensure that each soldier had his own living space. So that under no circumstances should one bed be used by two fighters. Items must be stored separately. And in the dugout...