Items tagged with: Donbas

The threat of a Kremlin revival hung over Ukraine’s 2019 election cycle but ultimately failed to materialize. After five years of Putin’s war, has Russia disenfranchised itself from Ukrainian democracy?

New revelations highlight how the Kremlin maintains direct military control over so-called separatist republics in Ukraine by deploying Russian army commanders using false identities

New legislation rebrands the conflict in eastern Ukraine unambiguously as a confrontation with the Kremlin and marks a deliberate shift away from earlier euphemistic talk of an Anti-Terrorist Operation

Daily fighting continues in Europe's only war but the Kremlin-led conflict is no longer on the international radar despite a rising humanitarian crisis

Russia sought to divide and conquer Ukraine in 2014 but Putin's hybrid war united the country as never before

Ukraine’s second city hard hit by the ongoing Russian hybrid war but economic recovery already well underway as search for new partners continues

Residents of Ukrainian frontline towns like Svitlodarsk do not qualify as IDPs but they continue to feel the full brunt of ongoing conflict with Russian hybrid forces

International Criminal Court acknowledges Russian military aggression in Ukraine but any talk of future war crimes trial remains premature

Russia’s hybrid war tactics in Ukraine depend on a smokescreen of ambiguity. All too often, the international media has been happy to oblige

Russian political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky says Putinism will collapse if Kremlin retreats from Ukraine

Australian artist Guido van Helten produces powerful portrait of local schoolteacher within sight of Russian hybrid forces in eastern Ukraine frontline town

Former Ukraine observer: Russian presence and Western appeasement weaken OSCE mission

Polish former Ukraine monitor Lukasz Adamski believes ‘political correctness’ and consensus culture within OSCE allow Russia to compromise effectiveness of Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine

World waits for Minsk-mandated Russian withdrawal from east Ukraine but in reality Putin cannot possibly pull back without risking collapse of his entire regime

Swedish IT entrepreneurs behind 'Beetroot' brand provide professional training courses for Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian hybrid war

The man behind the Bellingcat citizen journalist group says Russia has lost all credibility thanks to relentless Kremlin disinformation tactics over MH17 and Ukraine war

Ukraine's unexpectedly stiff military resistance to Russian hybrid warfare has prevented the Kremlin from achieving its objectives in Ukraine itself and kept Russian troops far from EU borders