Jun. 13, 2014
Donetsk — “Militia” has reported losses sustained in the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation in Mariupol, Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
May. 30, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine – It’s no longer about amateurs. There is a full-scale war going on, and it’s fought by professionals. The Russians are here – and they’re making a grab for power in eastern Ukraine.
May. 27, 2014
DONETSK, Ukraine – A trip on May 27 to the morgue in Donetsk, the capital of Ukraine’s most populous oblast, confirms that the war against Kremlin-backed insurgents – the government would say terroris
May. 26, 2014
Editor’s Note: Ukrainians went to the polls on May 25 and elected Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire businessman, independent member of parliament, a former economic and foreign minister.
May. 26, 2014
Ukrainians elected Petro Poroshenko to be their fifth president in a vote that was dubbed “the second independence referendum,” because of voters’ determination to cast their ballots despite a Russian
May. 21, 2014
The Donbas Special Battalion has taken control of parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the regional administration said on May 21.
May. 20, 2014
Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov wants his workers in separatist-held Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts to hold a strike daily from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m. until the unrest in the region eases. Time will t
May. 20, 2014
British journalist Graham Phillips, who cooperates with Russia Today,
has been held in Ukraine, the television channel said on its website on
Tuesday.
May. 20, 2014
An unknown number of masked gunmen on May 20 stormed nearly a dozen district election commissions in eastern Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and demanded at gunpoint that officials turn over ballots and o
May. 20, 2014
Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, after treading cautiously between Kremlin-backed separatists and the government in Kyiv that came to power when the EuroMaidan Revolution overthrew his ally ex-President Vi
May. 12, 2014
Self-proclaimed “People’s Governor” of Donetsk Pavel Gubarev said that Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, of financing separatism in eastern Ukraine in a May 12 interview with Russian state-contr
May. 12, 2014
Interim Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov <a href="http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=503848">called</a> the separatist referendums in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts — collectively 15 percet of
May. 11, 2014
Editor’s Note: Pro-Russian separatists on May 11 are holding their referendums on whether Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts should declare independence from Ukraine. The same type of illegal voting took on
May. 10, 2014
Mariupol police have confirmed that chief of Mariupol State Traffic Inspectorate Viktor Sayenko and employee of the patrol service battalion in Mariupol, died.
May. 9, 2014
Editor’s Note: Ukraine celebrates Victory Day on May 9. The Ukrainian government warned that it expects violence backed by Russia to continue to destabilize the situation in Ukraine ahead of the May 2
May. 7, 2014
The building of the city council in Mariupol (Donetsk region) was released by Mariupol national guard forces early on Wednesday, May 7, Channel 5 has reported.
Apr. 24, 2014
Russian troops amass on border as Kyiv authorities reformulate operation plans (LIVE UPDATES, VIDEO)
Editor’s Note: On April 22, interim President Oleksandr Turchynov announced that Ukraine would restart its anti-terror operation to quell Russian-backed separatist movements in Donetsk Oblast. The ope
Apr. 24, 2014
Shattering the night silence, explosions and gunfire rang out early on April 24 in the eastern city of Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast as armed pro-Russian insurgents attempted to seize a military base that
Apr. 19, 2014
On the eve of suspended anti-terrorist operations in
eastern Ukraine over Easter weekend Ukraine’s Zhytomyr Armored Brigade late on
April 18 recaptured two of the six airborne combat vehicles near Kra
Apr. 18, 2014
In light of the failure of Ukraine’s 25th Dnipropetrovsk Parachute brigade to hold and secure the Kramatorsk airfield in Donetsk Oblast on April 17, the State Security Service announced on April 18 t