Ukraine
MOSCOW – Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people’s republic, has suffered a slight wound to his foot in Debaltseve, a Donetsk people’s republic military source told In
Feb. 17, 2015
A two-day-old truce in Ukraine was under threat on Feb. 16 as fighting raged around a strategic railway hub and other violations were reported, jeopardising an agreement to start withdrawing heavy wea
Feb. 16, 2015
The non-governmental organization Defense of Mariupol has said that an attack on Ukrainian army positions in Shyrokyne has killed five servicemen and injured 22.
Feb. 16, 2015
DONETSK, Ukraine — It took just hours for Ukraine and the Russian-backed separatists to accuse one another of violating the cease-fire that came into effect at 12 a.m. on Feb. 15. From the city center
Feb. 15, 2015
The number of attacks against Ukrainian troops decreased radically since cease-fire took effect at midnight, but the situation remains tense around Debaltveve, Ukraine’s officials said on Feb. 15.
Feb. 15, 2015
The village of Shyrokyne in Volnovakha district, Donetsk region, has
been virtually destroyed because of an artillery battle between
Ukrainian government forces and their armed opponents, and a lot of
Feb. 14, 2015
Nineteen Ukrainian troops have been killed in fighting near the Hostra Mohyla Hill not far from Debaltseve, the Donetsk Oblast, Vladyslav Selezniov, a spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces’ staff,
Feb. 11, 2015
The populated areas located eastward of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, which were occupied by the Ukrainian military last Tuesday, remain under their control and fighting is now going on for the village of
Feb. 11, 2015
Debaltseve police chief Yevhen Yukhanov was killed by militants who attempted to seize the town police station, head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s department in Donetsk region Viacheslav Abrosk
Feb. 11, 2015
The Ukrainian army is pushing the militants away from territories from where they may bomb residential areas and is regaining its positions set by the Minsk agreements, Kyiv said.
Feb. 10, 2015
Ukraine’s Azov regiment announced on its VKontakte page that on Feb. 10 morning its servicemen launched an offensive toward the town of Novoazovsk in the Donetsk region.
Feb. 10, 2015
The Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant, a business unit of the Centerenergo power generating company, has been unable to receive coal for eight days, Ukrainian First Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minist
Feb. 3, 2015
People
Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer and frontman of Skryabin pop band, who is better known as “Kuzma,” died in a
car accident in the morning of Feb. 2.
Feb. 2, 2015
Seven civilians were killed in shelling in Donbas on Feb. 1 as of the day’s afternoon. A 66-year old woman was killed by a shell in her house in a village in Artiomovsky district of Donetsk Oblast. Si
Feb. 1, 2015
Twelve people, presumably civilians, were killed in Debaltseve as the forces of separatists shell the city.
Jan. 31, 2015
As a misty wet snow falls on the slippery streets of Kyiv, a group of young men stand outside a building, some smoking cigarettes and most wearing camouflage clothes.
Jan. 27, 2015