Section: Main news
Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 8.12
An Azov Battalion sniper takes aim on the front line. Photo: Noah Brooks. Source Operational data from Information Resistance: The conflict in Donbas continues to escalate due to a sharp increase in activity by Russian-terrorist troops carried out under the pretext of delivering “pre-emptive strikes” to counter an imaginary “offensive by...
National Security and Defense Council: Militants deploy tanks to the frontline in the area of the Donetsk airport
Kyiv, August 12, 2015. On the Western outskirts of Donetsk, near Opytne, Russia-backed militants actively attacked with armored vehicles including tanks and infantry fighting vehicles that they had deployed to the frontline in the area of the Donetsk airport. Militants also used reactive artillery in this area for the first time in several...
How Mr. X Outsmarted Mr. Kvit: The Lopsided Progress of Ukraine’s Education Reforms
Let me tell you the story of Mr. X—a student whom I had never seen in class, and who had not shown up for any of his final exams. “Oh, do not worry,” his fellow students reassured me, “it has been like this year in year out.” I could have easily forgotten this trivial episode had Mr. X not earned a university diploma and...
Ukraine Crisis Is Not Only About Ukraine
The Ukraine crisis is not only about Ukraine. Far more urgent for humanity as a whole are the commitments made by Russia and other UN Security Council members with regard to Ukraine’s accession to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) following the Soviet Union’s collapse. The NPT aims to curtail the spread of weapons...
Hackers’ insider shop sold data on demand
Five people are being investigated over a scheme combining digital-age cybercrime with old-fashioned insider trading. ||| New York – The email from Kiev offered a tantalising prize: the formula for a new kind of Wall Street crime.“Log-in data will be sent to the email you leave,” the attached video said in Russian.So began what authorities...
National Security and Defense Council:Militants use reactive artillery in the Mariupol sector
Kyiv, August 11, 2015. Starohnativka and the adjacent areas became a key point of Ukrainian defense in the Mariupol sector yesterday. Ukrainian forces repelled a militant attack, moved to the offensive and resumed control over strategic heights. Despite the losses incurred by pro-Russian militants, they continued shooting at our positions near...
Even After Iran Deal, Putin Won’t Get His Way in Ukraine
Ever since US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi last May, Ukraine’s friends have been concerned that in its eagerness to ensure Kremlin support for a deal with Iran, the White House was willing to let Putin have his way in Ukraine. Advocates of this outlook point to five developments:In Sochi,...
‘Russian-made missile’ at MH17 crash site
Investigators identified pieces that “possibly” come from a Russian-made BUK missile at the crash site of flight MH17. ||| The Hague – Investigators probing the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 said on Tuesday they had identified pieces that “possibly” come from a Russian-made BUK missile from eastern Ukraine, where the plane...
US identifies insider trading ring
US authorities break up an alleged insider trading ring that relied on computer hackers to pilfer corporate press announcements. ||| Pennsylvania – Exposing a new front in cybercrime, US authorities broke up an alleged insider trading ring that relied on computer hackers to pilfer corporate press announcements and then profited by trading...
National Security and Defense Council:Ukrainian soldiers repelled an attack by 400 militants near Starohnativka
Kyiv, August 10, 2015. At about 3 a.m. on August 10, after an artillery attack, 400 militants with 10 tanks, 10 infantry-fighting vehicles and other equipment conducted an attack near Starohnativka, located within the Volnovakha-Komsomolsk-Telmanove triangle. Thanks to the professional actions of the Armed Forces, the attack was stopped. The...