Ukraine

European Commission Tells Ukrainians to Forget About Cheap Russian Energy

Speaking at an international expert discussion on the development of the Ukrainian energy market in Brussels on Tuesday, EU-Ukraine Support Group representative Torsten Woellert suggested that Ukrainians must understand that the concept of cheap energy is a thing of the past.

// European Commission Tells Ukrainians to Forget About Cheap Russian Energy

NYT - Ukraine: 7 Soldiers Killed, 9 Wounded in Eastern Clashes


Surge in eastern fighting kills seven Ukrainian soldiers


Ukrainian Troop Deaths at Highest in a Year as Fighting Surges









No armed OSCE patrols on Russia-Ukraine border - Kremlin's spokesman

If Peskov had bothered to read the Minsk II Agreement (and it's obvious he didn't bother), he would understand that the Ukraine/Russian border was in fact to revert back to Ukrainian control 5 months ago. The problem for Peskov and the Kremlin is that relinquishing control of the Ukraine border would end the political/economic/military viability of Moscow's puppet states in eastern Ukraine.







Russia’s bald-faced lies

Lavrov's bastardization of the Budapest Memorandum is always an unbelievable (no pun intended) read.







'I Will Never Return To Donetsk' -- Conflict Reduces One Woman's Life To Rubble


Nadia Zaslavska now lives in Kyiv and says she will never go back to Donetsk, which was her home for more than three decades







Defense Ministry plans to build about 30 warships, boats by 2020







4,000+ streets and squares have been renamed in Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk) oblast.















What a Trump presidency might mean for Ukraine

Nothing good. Trump is the American equivalent of a Russian oligarch.







Ukraine’s Parliament Is Getting a Facelift, but Will It Make a Difference?
Nyet. The changes are strictly cosmetic. Same faces, same results. Not enough technocrats...

Why Ukraine’s Gutsy, Bright, and Articulate Reformers Are Optimistic


From left to right, Sergii Leshchenko, Hanna Hopko, and Mustafa Nayyem are members of Ukraine’s
parliament and its coalition of “Euro-optimists”







12 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 2 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


US equipped field hospital for the Ukrainian army

Breaking...

Moscow poised to hand over prisoner Savchenko to Ukraine: reports


Reports from both Ukraine and Russia say that kidnapped Ukrainian POW Lt. Nadiya Savchenko is on a plane to Kyiv. She is being swapped for two Russian GRU (Spetznaz) soldiers captured in Ukraine. Flight believed to be carrying Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov landed at Vnukovo.

Ukraine has confirmed to AP that Lt. Savchenko is on a plane home. President Petro Poroshenko will talk to the Ukrainian people shortly.

UN torture prevention body suspends Ukraine visit citing obstruction

GENEVA: The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has suspended its visit to Ukraine after being denied access to places in several parts of the country where it suspects people are being deprived of their liberty by the Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU.

“This denial of access is in breach of Ukraine’s obligations as a State party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. It has meant that we have not been able to visit some places where we have heard numerous and serious allegations that people have been detained and where torture or ill-treatment may have occurred,” said Sir Malcolm Evans, head of the four-member delegation.

The delegation concluded that the integrity of the visit, which began on 19 May and was due to end on 26 May, had been compromised to such an extent that it had to be suspended as the SPT mandate could not be fully carried out.

Under the Optional Protocol (OPCAT), the SPT is mandated to visit all States parties and can make unannounced visits to any places of detention. This is only the second time the SPT has halted a mission – such suspensions are made in cases where a lack of cooperation by the State party prevents the SPT from fulfilling its OPCAT-mandated duties.

“The SPT expects Ukraine to abide by its international obligations under the Optional Protocol, which it ratified in 2006. We also hope that the Government of Ukraine will enter into a constructive dialogue with us to enable the SPT to resume its visit in the near future and so work together to establish effective safeguards against the risk of torture and ill-treatment in places where people are deprived of their liberty,” said Sir Malcolm.

The focus of the SPT’s visit was to evaluate how its recommendations made after its first visit in 2011 had been implemented. The work of the SPT, which is composed of independent experts, is guided by the principles of confidentiality and cooperation.

The SPT delegation to Ukraine comprised: Sir Malcom Evans (United Kingdom), Ms. Mari Amos (Estonia), Ms. June Caridad Pagaduan Lopez (Philippines) and Mr. Victor Zaharia (Moldova).

// UN torture prevention body suspends Ukraine visit citing obstruction | SAMAA TV

NYT - Ukrainian Pilot, Nadiya Savchenko, Is Exchanged for 2 Russian Prisoners















Jailed Ukraine pilot Nadia Savchenko heads home after prisoner swap with Russia

Swapped Russian GRU officers on arrival at Vnukovo airport in Moscow
Met only by their wives and 2 journalists. No government or military officials even bothered







US State Department - Return of Nadiya Savchenko to Ukraine








In contrast - Nadiya at Boryspil airport in Kyiv







Ukraine's first female combat pilot freed in prisoner exchange with Russia








Lt. Nadezhda Savchenko receives the Gold Star of the Hero of Ukraine







Putin lost out in prisoner swap with Ukraine


It seems that Ms. Savchenko is indeed interested in politics. She was elected in-absentia to the Veronika Rada as an MP of the Batkivschina (Fatherland) party which is currently in opposition to the

corrupt government of Petro Poroshenko.

Kudos to the countless thousands across the entire world who lobbied for and demanded Nadiya's release from Russian captivity. Putin and his security/judicial bodies badly miscalculated here. The

international damage to Russia's reputation for kidnapping and holding Lt. Savchenko in captivity for 708 days and orchestrating a Soviet-style "show-trial" is incalculable.

At the Verkhovna Rada the fighting grenade has exploded, tens of people have suffered

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The fighting grenade has exploded about the building of the Verkhovna Rada in the center of Kiev where there takes place meeting of opponents of decentralization. As of this hour, about 50 people have suffered. Among them from 5 to 7 employees of National guard who "are in a serious condition", the adviser to the Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko has reported on the page in Facebook.

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Above - A practice known as Rada "button-pushing". The lady MP in the navy blue outfit is Iryna Lutsenko. Yup ... this Irene is the wife of Ukraine’s new Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. In the video, she is voting for herself and also MP's Maria Ionova and Sergey Berezenko who are absent. This is how many bills get passed even though not enough MP's are present to constitute a majority or a quarum. Although technically not illegal, "button-pushing" is certainly unethical and undemocratic. Legislative bill #1895 passed its initial reading in June 2015, but a vote on the second reading has been (purposefully) tied-up in committee. These are the kinds of reforms that are lagging under Poroshenko.






Russia frees the Ukrainian pilot it convicted of bogus war crimes

Moscow wasn't fooling anyone with this shameful propaganda operation.


Savchenko's Return Heralds New Turmoil in Ukraine

She is already a member of Ukraine's parliament. I doubt Ms. Savchebko will tolerate corruption, nor will she settle for compromise regarding Crimea and Donbas.


Savchenko factor

Russia suffered a big reputational loss in the Savchenko affair, underscoring how ruthless the Kremlin has been since 2014 in violating Ukraine’s sovereignty, killing 10,000 people in its war and kidnapping Ukrainian citizens for imprisonment. The whole enchilada of Savchenko's kidnapping, imprisonment, and show trial was a huge mistake from the very beginning.


The Many Hopes of Nadiya Savchenko

Quite possibly ... the next president of Ukraine.






Kremlin Says Russia 'In Favour' of Returning Donbass to Ukraine

On what terms? Crimea must also be returned to its rightful owner.


Members of the DNR 'People's Soviet' militia in occupied Donetsk






Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved, has been banned from visiting Ukraine for 5 years due to his support for the annexation/occupation of Crimea.







A Chechen kangaroo-court has sentenced Ukrainians Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh to 22.5 and and 22 years in prison respectively. Other Ukrainians illegally detained in Russia and Occupied Crimea...









Ukraine opens criminal case against its diplomats in Slovakia


U.N. torture prevention panel suspends Ukraine visit due to denial of access

Heads should roll here, most notably Avakov's head.







Mikheil Saakashvili: 'Ukraine's government has no vision for reform'


Saakashvili finally realizes that Poroshenko is part of the problem







Russia’s Kerch Bridge: Time to Act for Ukraine

A 19-kilometer-long target.







29 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 14 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Courtesy of Vladimir Putin - images from a post-apocalyptic eastern Ukraine

Kyiv Day - The Ukrainian capital marks its 1,534th birthday on May 28-29







Nadiya Savchenko Ponders Her Next Move in Ukraine Politics


Savchenko’s Release Puts Ukrainian President Poroshenko on Notice

Poroshenko's days are numbered.


Savchenko Ready to Become Ukrainian President


Liberated Lt. Nadiya Savchenko and president Petro Poroshenko







Statement on “Russia’s on-going aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea”







Savchenko says no election in Donbas until Ukraine retakes its border with Russia. She has articulated more sense in one day than Poroshenko has in two years.









BBC team on the front line of the Ukraine conflict

Video. BBC journalists spend a bit of time at Avdiivka. The Russians have been trying to overrun the industrial section of Avdiivka for the past month.







Are 48 saboteur MPs afraid of new electronic declarations?

This reform would need to include familial foreign/offshore wealth holdings.







British ambassador says UK will help Ukraine combat corruption







Removing barriers to women in the Ukrainian armed forces








Good Morning, Ukraine! Army Radio Seeks Colorful DJ to Mock Russians







40 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 2 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

Putin says Crimea's status as part of Russia not up for discussion

Oh, but it must be Vlad. You have illegally annexed Ukrainian territory. Such a crime has not occurred in Europe since the end of WWII.







Outrage as the Security Service shames Ukraine by blocking torture monitors

I'm curious how Arsen Avakov will explain this.








A tale of two homecomings

Savchenko was greeted by thousands and awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. The two swapped Russian soldiers were met by their wives and consigned to obscurity.







Chernobyl: Huge sliding arch to block radiation is nearing completion 30 years after nuclear disaster

The 30,000 ton New Safe Confinement arch (Novarka) will roll into place in mid-November.







Nadiya Savchenko: The thorn in President Poroshenko's side?


Nadiya Savchenko talks about her plans, the war, Russia and a future career in politics


Nadiya Savchenko in the Verkhovna Rada on Friday
She has been appointed to the Ukrainian parliament's Committee on National Security and Defense







Ukraine's former Finance Minister has a new job







Ukraine Files Defense In $3 Billion Russia Eurobond Case

Ukraine cannot pay because war costs, the theft of Crimea, and the loss of Donbas industry have ruined Ukraine's economy. In addition, Yanukovych exceeded loan limits allowed by Ukrainian law.







Not Forgotten! Solidarity Campaign for ‘Crimean Four’ imprisoned in Russia


Russia to answer at Strasbourg for ban on Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev


Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemiliev






On Ukraine, the E.U. should not follow Russia’s script






Ex-official says he filed documents on Party of Regions' $2 billion graft scheme


Poroshenko (L) as Economy Minister under deposed president Viktor Yanukovych







War in Eastern Ukraine Brings Lasting Misery for Elderly







Five Ukrainian Soldiers Die In 24 Hours

3 more KIA since yesterday...


→ 30 Russian ceasefire violations on Saturday in eastern Ukraine - 5 Ukrainian soldiers KIA / 4 Ukrainian soldiers WIA

→ 25 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 3 Ukrainian soldiers KIA / 7 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

3 reasons why Russia finally released Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko

Reason #4 and what should be the main reason ... kidnapping people and transporting them across national borders is both illegal and unethical.

Putin never apologized for kidnapping this POW, for holding her in a psychiatric institution and then solitary confinement, nor for the sham "show-trial" borrowed from Stalin.








New police force is now active in Mariupol







Ukraine’s Chief of Gen. Staff: Russian invasion "very bad scenario but we must consider it"







DPR leader Zakharchenko threatens to kill Savchenko


Alexander Zakharchenko (C) ... psychopathic self-appointed leader of the DPR 'People's Soviet'







Signs of life but little hope in Ukraine’s rebel east







An English-language lesson in Ukraine for the record books?


English lesson held simultaneously in 22 cities







Letters from occupied Donbas: Handing out keys to others’ apartments

Zakharchenko borrows a tactic from Hitler.







20 Years for Pro-Ukrainian Views in Russian-occupied Crimea


Andriy Kolomiyets and his lawyer Mikhail Kushel







National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine: Russia-backed militants have killed ten thousand people in two years

With 20,000 wounded and 1,500,000 displaced.







21 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 2 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

On June 1 in 1996, Ukraine transferred its last nuclear warhead to Russia. In return for becoming a non-nuclear state,
Russia pledged to honor Ukraine's borders in the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances







Is Europe Wobbling Over Sanctions on Russia?


Bad omen for Russia's legal attack on EU sanctions


G7 nations 'stand ready to take further restrictive measures' against Russia


Merkel sees no reason to roll back Russia sanctions: spokeswoman

Putin has been putting on a charm offensive before the June EU sanctions vote. Vlad hopes that the EU will agree only to continue sanctions for another six months rather than a full year. If so, he would concentrate Russian charm-efforts on removing/scaling back some sanctions during a December EU sanctions vote.







Kremlin-backed militants to put maimed and tortured hostage on ‘trial’









Ukraine's fallen leader Viktor Yanukovych 'paid bribes of $2 billion' - or $1.4 million for every day he was president

In particular, election commissioners were handsomely rewarded in return for guaranteeing victory for Mr Yanukovych’s Party of Regions in the parliamentary election of 2012. To put it another way, Yanukovych and his Party of Regions purchased the elections of 2012. Some people are nervous because many former PoR MP's now belong to the Opposition Bloc in the Rada.


Viktor Yanukovych and his sleazy boss






Odesa mayor hides construction business offshore - The Panama Papers







Law 3700 and the Need for Electoral Reform in Ukraine







The Unraveling Of Moscow's 'Novorossia' Dream









51 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 2 Ukrainian soldiers WIA

Russia moved 10 tanks, 7 Grads rocket launchers, and 33 fuel carriages to the militant-controlled Luhansk region


In Mariupol, the people laid to rest 3 defenders of Ukraine

Breaking Russian myths about Ukraine: infographics of 1914-1919









Russia's Occupation of Eastern Ukraine Is Hurting Its World Power Status







Savchenko Sworn In As Lawmaker, Urges Fight For 'Kremlin Prisoners'


Savchenko and the coming autumn


Savchenko pleaded guilty. Not.

A Himalayan peak in Nepal has been named "Nadiya" in honor of Nadiya Savchenko.







As fighting surges again in Ukraine, an environmental disaster looms







In pictures: Ukraine removes communist-era symbols







Rotten To The Core: Documents show $2 billion bribe network, moral bankruptcy


Reformer and anti-reformer of the week


So that's why


Former president Viktor Yushchenko kisses new president Viktor Yanukovych. The documents help explain why,
since the 2014 EuroMaidan Revolution, no one has been charged with mass murder or major financial corruption







Volunteers, activists power difficult recovery in Sloviansk, Kramatorsk two years after liberation by Ukrainian forces







NATO and Ukraine take stock of successful scientific cooperation








Use this graph next time you hear US paid $5 billion for the EuroMaidan
It's propaganda. $5 billion over 20 yrs, which included the removal of Ukraine's nukes







Ukraine Needs to Stop Dragging its Feet on Privatization







Ukraine to begin producing combat aircraft









At least 37 soldiers killed in May in Russia’s war against Ukraine







49 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 8 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Ukrainians bid farewell to two soldiers of the Aidar Battalion, Mykola Kuliba and Serhiy Baula, killed in the war in eastern Ukraine

Ukraine Eyes 30 New Vessels, Military Training Facilities









Russia's Cyberwar in Ukraine is Relentless – This Hacktivist Strikes Back







Leaked 'bribe books' claim to detail massive top-level Ukrainian corruption


Corruption round table - Independent Ukraine's leaders from 1992-2014 (from left to right):
Viktor Yushchenko, Viktor Yanukovych, Leonid Kravchuk, and Leonid Kuchma







Ukraine is largest exporter of wheat to EU in 2015/16

Ukrainian wheat exports to the EU surpases that of USA, Canada and Russia combined.







In the past week, Russia has delivered 36 tanks, 6 armored vehicles, 11 artillery and MRLS pieces, 160 tons of ammunition, and 2400 tons of fuel to their proxy rebels in eastern Ukraine.








I am my own man, says Ukraine's new prime minister


​Poroshenko: 'There was no offshore scandal'







Ukraine’s corrupt judges targeted in constitutional reforms


How to rid rot from customs service


A customs officer checks a car with smuggled cigarettes stopped on Ukraine's western Zakarpattya border







Why invest in Ukraine?







37 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 5 Ukrainian soldiers WIA

Rebels have now shot down all OSCE long-range reconnaissance drones. Russian attacks yesterday at...

Opytne, Pisky, Nevelske, Avdiivka, Zaitseve, Luganske, Pavlopol, Hranitne, Berezove, Talakovka, Krasnogorovka, Mariinka, Taramchuk


Wounded Ukrainian soldier at the Mechnikov ATO Trauma Center in Dnipro, Ukraine

More than 30 Ukrainians are held by Russia. Who are they?

Interactive infopage.







Good news! The rebel commander Motorola (Arseny Pavlov) was wounded in the left eye and evacuated to St. Petersburgh for an operation. In past interviews he bragged about executing captured Ukrainian government POW's. He's a Russian pig.







Ukraine to initiate arbitration to protect its rights in Russian-occupied Crimea

Kyiv should sue Moscow in every available legal venue.


Crimean oil/gas fields that legally belong to Ukraine







Poll: Russians see Ukraine among its top enemies

Russians only know what the Putin government wants/allows them to know.







Why Ukraine banned 17 Russian 'journalists'







Russia Agrees to Allowing Observers in Ukraine Carry Pistols

Ukraine requested armed peacekeepers over a year ago.


On Russia’s Ongoing Violations in Ukraine: Statement to the PC


Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine. Russian forces have been trying to overrun this town for the past two months







U.S. Sends Envoy To Urge Europe To Maintain Russian Sanctions







44Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 7 Ukrainian soldiers WIA / 1 civilian killed


Courtesy of Vladimir Putin - images from a post-apocalyptic eastern Ukraine

Russia’s hybrid war in Ukraine


A member of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic forces stands guard near buildings destroyed
during battles with Ukrainian armed forces







Savchenko is Home But Pressure on Russia Should Remain







Two years of Poroshenko’s presidency: failures and achievements







Russia's 'valiant hero' in Ukraine turns his fire on Vladimir Putin


Russian operative Igor Strelkov initiated the 2014 Kremlin invasion of Ukraine's Donbas region with a violent
takeover of the police station in Slovyansk







Ukrainian innocent caught in Panama Papers web


Our Panama Papers reporting on Petro Poroshenko was accurate and fair


Rebuttal by the OCCAP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)...

Attack on Poroshenko Reporting is PR, Not Analysis







[video=youtube;CakMI8Tsb6g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?CakMI8Tsb6g[/video]







Time to prosecute those who created Yanukovych’s mafia state

US, UK will organize forum next year to help Ukraine recover stolen assets abroad








1st time at an international air show ... Ukraine's Antonov178 in Berlin







Deadbeat debtors sicken Ukraine’s banking system







NGOs withdraw from police vetting process, say reform sabotaged








Putin's aggression has killed more than 10,000 in Ukraine






35 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 7 Ukrainian soldiers WIA / 1 civilian killed


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

Ukraine UN Ambassador Volodymyr Yelchenko






A Donbas Strategy Going Forward

Russia is concerned that Ukrainian forces are moving closer to the conflict zone (which is in Ukraine, BTW)















Ukraine struggles to balance censorship and security as war in east wears on







Azerbaijan has placed an order for 10 Ukrainian AN-178 aircraft






First Nadiya Savchenko Raised Hell in Russian Prison, Now in Ukraine’s Parliament


I disagree with her offer to meet with DNR/LNR proxy leaders. She is a trained pilot, not a career diplomat nor a savvy lawyer.







​Chronicles of customs reforms in Ukraine


A customs official inspects a vehicle in Odesa Oblast on the Ukrainian-Moldovan border







JIT will present first results MH17 after the summer







35 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 7 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Courtesy of Vladimir Putin - images from a post-apocalyptic eastern Ukraine

Report: Russia Building Military Base Near Border With Ukraine

At Klintsy. Russia is also building two additional military bases southeast of Klintsy. All three new Russian bases will be ~20 miles from the UKraine border.







Safeguarding peace







MH17: six aspects of the criminal investigation explained


Russian BUK missile laces Malaysia flight MH17 with shrapnel over eastern Ukraine killing 298







Azerbaijan signs deal to buy military transport planes from Ukraine's Antonov






Civil Society Gives Ukraine’s New Prime Minister Positive Marks


Ukraine Defies Anti-Semitic Stereotypes


Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman







Testimony Victoria Nuland: Russian Violations of Borders, Treaties, and Human Rights







Poroshenko creates National Cybersecurity Center


Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks near Kharkiv







43 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 4 Ukrainian soldiers WIA / 1 Border Guard WIA


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

Stop Putin Stop War rallies on June 10







Stop Vladimir Putin now or Russia will advance to ‘border with Poland or Germany’ says Nadia Savchenko







Ukraine's United Future Depends on Leaving Donbas in Its Divided Past







Only 47% of Ukrainian schools taught the Ukrainian language at the end of Soviet rule. This increased to 75% by 2004 and 86% in 2013. There has been a 50% increase in the number of Ukrainians speaking Ukrainian in their everyday lives over the past decade.


Ukraine-shaped cloud photographed from the city of Dnipro







Beware Appeasement With Russia








Combined Russia-separatist forces deliberately 'blinding' OSCE Ukraine monitors by shooting down all OSCE
recon drones: What are they hiding? In addition, OSCE monitors have a mandate for ALL Ukraine: Russia must stop blocking access to Crimea








Ukraine’s Next Big Reform You Haven’t Heard of Yet







President signed Law allowing to allocate additional UAH 3 billion for restoration of Donbas







Donbas: 152 mm artillery hits Ukrainian positions in Donetsk region









40 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 4 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Donating blood for soldiers at Mechnikova hospital in Dnipro

Budapest Memorandum or how Ukraine lost the World’s third largest nuclear weapons stockpile

Nuclear powers the Russian Federation, the United States, and Great Britain conned Ukraine with empty security assurances.









EU’s decision on visa liberalization with Ukraine pushed to September

Attributed to Poroshenko's delay tactics in firing the corrupt anti-reform Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin.







Is Ukraine’s Joan of Arc Ready for Political Battle?


Savchenko: Ukraine Needs Early Parliamentary Elections

Ms. Savchenko is a small fish in a huge pond of corruption and avarice.


Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Nadiya Savchenko







Divide and re-conquer?


President signed Decree that allows foreigners to serve in AFU under contract







Failing policies


Hollow words


Reformer and anti-reformer of the week


Mustafa Nayyem (L) and Mykhailo Apostol (R)







Ukrainian Gets 10-Year Sentence in Russia’s Revenge for Maidan

22-year-old Ukrainian Andriy Kolomiyets has been sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security prison in yet another Russian travesty of justice.








Ukraine troops at Nowa-Dęba training range for NATO Exercise Anakonda16
These troops are part of the Lithuania/Poland/Ukraine (LITPOLUKRBRIG) Brigade







Deliberate effort to blind OSCE SMM intended to conceal from international community buildup of combined Russian-separatist forces in eastern Ukraine - US


Militants brought 36 Grad systems back to the contact line – intelligence







49 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 4 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 13 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

On this date in 2014, RU shot down Ukrainian Il-76 military transport plane killing all 49 soldiers aboard







Dethroning Ukraine’s Oligarchs: A How-To Guide







Court arrests first Yanukovych crony for embezzlement








Camouflaged Russian tank in occupied Donbas







Ukraine Throws All But Kitchen Sink at Russia’s Bond Lawsuit







Another Russian arms convoy delivered five trucks with ammunition for tanks and 122mm Grad multiple-launch rocket systems, numerous railway flatcars carrying six tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, three 152-mm self-propelled guns as well as fuel, lubricants and ammunition.








12 June 2016 - Mariupol celebrates the 2nd anniversary of its liberation from the rebels







Ukraine is a great European state. Lest we forget, it is still at war







#Ukraine's latest progress in 6 six key areas







Ukraine sees Russian gas offer as too high, plans imports from Europe









Russian OSCE Appointee Implicated in Russia’s Fake Crimea Referendum & War Propaganda

Moscow appointed Vladislav Grib as Russia's representative to the OSCE. The OSCE/SMM fields international monitors from member nations in eastern Ukraine to monitor compliance with the Minsk II Ceasefire Agreement. Grib was directly involved in organizing the scam ‘referendum’ used by Russia to try to justify its invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014.







Every Rada meeting may start with announcing dead ATO soldiers' names







40 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 6 Ukrainian soldiers WIA / 1 civilian killed by Russian artillery


A woman born in 1932 was killed when her home in Artemovo village (near Toretska) was hit by Russian artillery

Russian artillery shell hit residential building on Soniashna St. in Krasnohorivka. 55yo woman injured.







Ukrainian Says 'Tortured' In Russia As Moscow, Kyiv Exchange More Prisoners

Swapped were Hennadiy Afanasyev (25) and Yuriy Soloshenko (74). Yes, the Russians had imprisoned a 74 year old senior citizen. Both were held for two years. Moscow received two pro-Russian separatists from Odessa.






Third year of Donbas war: how volunteers supply Ukrainian servicemen









Ukraine’s Oligarchs May Own the Media, but Public Broadcasting Is Shaking Things Up






Airport Kyiv could be renamed after aircraft designer Sikorsky, Boryspil airport after artist Malevich







Life in the “DNR”: lining up at the soup kitchen









Venice Commission on Ukraine's 'party dictatorship' law: contrary to int'l standards
I remarked a few months ago that bill No.3700 was undemocratic and should be rescinded/repealed.







Interpol refuses to search for Russian militant suspected of war crimes in Donbas


Cyborg Igor Branovitskiy ... executed by the Russian Arseny Pavlov







35 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 2 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 7 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

Russia Ante Portas: Updated Satellite Imagery Shows Border Crossings and Artillery Sites


Russian servicemen Anton Dmitriyev and Roman Gromov at the Ukrainian village of Chervonosilske







Rumors of a Military Buildup Amass in Ukraine








Afanasyev and Soloshenko: How the FSB breaks prisoners








Former Russian prisoners Nadiya Savchenko and Maria Varfolomeeva in Kyiv







NATO demands Russia withdraw from Ukraine







Ukraine’s struggle with the past is ours too







United Nations accuses SBU of hiding secret detention centers

Needs to be addressed asap by Poroshenko and Avakov.


Two guards stand outside a detention center in Kyiv







Reformer and anti-reformer of the week







Ukraine’s Broken Road to Europe


97% of Ukraine's roads are in need of repair







When Downsizing is a Good Thing for a State







31Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 1 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 2 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Slava Heroyam -- Glory To The Heroes

EU extends sanctions on Russia-annexed Crimea until mid-2017


EU ‘to extend sanctions’ against Russia over Ukraine conflict

Moscow has neither returned the occupied Crimea nor fulfilled even one of its Minsk II obligations in eastern Ukraine.


Ukrainian territory under occupation by Russian forces







U.S. Assistance to Ukraine since February 2014








Another stolen McDonalds 'rebranded' as DonMak in rebel-held Donetsk







Ukraine urgently needs anti-corruption courts


My list of dirty deals


Telychenko’s mission: Get rid of ‘mafia’ prosecution


Call to action









European parliament offers help to Ukrainian MPs facing 'legislative tsunami'






Stark warning of Soviet-style dangers for Ukrainians visiting Crimea


Ukrainian volunteer Natalya Vashchenko







23 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 0 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Courtesy of Vladimir Putin - images from a post-apocalyptic eastern Ukraine

Brexit is currently consuming a lot of oxygen, but the war with Russia in eastern Ukraine continues.


46 Russian ceasefire violations yesterday in eastern Ukraine - 0 Ukrainian soldier KIA / 2 Ukrainian soldiers WIA


Courtesy of Vladimir Putin - images from a post-apocalyptic eastern Ukraine

While the West closes eyes to actions of Ukraine in Donbass, Ukraine continues to fire at the peace districts of Donetsk.

Results of yesterday's firing.







If you still believe that Ukraine fires at nobody, then you are surprised to official declarations of the Ukrainian politicians. «Secretary of the national security Council and defence of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov said that the Ukrainian army running out of ammunition of Soviet production». Ukraine fires at nobody, but shells at it already come to an end...

We see many fresh photos in which results of firing of the cities of Donbass by Ukraine are visible. But whether much you see photos on which results of firings of the Ukrainian cities from Donbass or Russia are visible?