Pirate version of Donetsk: Ukrainian woman told how she went to her hometown, where she lived before the war

The self-proclaimed republics of the "LPR" and "DPR" are almost completely closed to independent journalists, both from Ukraine and Russia. As a result, nothing is known about how things are now in everyday life among local residents. Specially for the BBC publication...

New York to appear in Ukraine: the amazing story of the 300-year-old settlement in the Donetsk region

The village of Novgorodskoe, Donetsk region, is seeking to regain its historical name - New York. The village was founded by the Mennonites, who were invited to the territory of the Russian Empire by Catherine II. And the founders of the village named it New York, the website of the city of Mariupol writes. The village bore its historical name until 1951 ...

'High-level adventure': how a family from Donetsk managed to escape to the USA and buy a house by installments

Andrei Vlezko, 37, from Makeyevka, calls this move a high-level adventure. Since 2015, he has been in the United States of America with his family. He spoke about new challenges in a foreign country, job search, expenses and American medicine to Svoi.City About his former life ...

The leader of the "DNR" Alexander Zakharchenko died in an explosion in Donetsk

The head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, proclaimed by separatists in eastern Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko, was killed in an explosion at the Separ cafe in Donetsk. After the explosion, he was taken to a hospital, where the 42-year-old militant died, writes Lenta.ru. His death has already been confirmed at the "residence" ...

A war that was not supposed to be. An excerpt from the novel "Airport" Sergei Loiko

ForumDaily, with the permission of the author, Sergei Loiko, publishes an excerpt from his sensational novel Airport, which artistically comprehends one of the most heroic and tragic episodes of the Russian-Ukrainian war in Donbass. Sergey, a Russian journalist and photographer who has worked for The Los Angeles Times for many years, ...

Bellingcat handed over the list of those involved in the crash of "Boeing" in Ukraine

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, ...

Donbass refugees in the USA: life from scratch and immunity to propaganda

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. ...

In eastern Ukraine, civilians are dying again

There is no peace in the east of Ukraine again. Over the past day, militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) fired at several settlements. Fire from mortars and howitzers covered Marinka, Avdeevka, Krasnogorovka, the villages of Opytnoye, Peski, Vodyanoe, Verkhnetoretskoye, Yasinovatsky district and Novgorodskoye, Dzerzhinsky district. IN…

UN to consider resolution on international tribunal on downed Boeing

Malaysia has submitted to the UN Security Council a draft resolution on the creation of an international tribunal to investigate the crash of the Boeing 777 near Donetsk. Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ukraine participated in the preparation of the draft resolution on the Boeing Wreck Tribunal. “The International Tribunal, established by the UN Security Council, will provide the broad international support for the investigation needed to ...

America blamed Russia for fighting in Donbas

The United States is concerned about renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine. This was stated at a briefing by the official representative of the US State Department, Marie Harf. “Russia is directly responsible for preventing these attacks and for maintaining the ceasefire regime,” she was quoted as saying by Reuters. Earlier, Kiev made a similar statement. Representatives of the Ukrainian side of the Joint ...

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