Section: Main news
No One Feels Safe in the New Crimea
Sixteen months after Russia’s March 2014 annexation of Crimea, the peninsula’s human rights situation is getting progressively worse. The first wave of repression targeted mainly pro-Ukrainian activists and Crimean Tatars, while in 2015 the Kremlin’s victims have been Slavs: Ukrainians and Russians. Since early this year,...
Last major Soviet statues come down
Workers started dismantling the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern frontier of the European Union and NATO. ||| Vilnius – Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, labourers and farmers in Lithuania’s capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern...
Ukraine, rebels trade shelling blame
The Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists accused each other of shelling residential districts of separatist-held Donetsk. ||| Donetsk, Ukraine – The Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists accused each other on Sunday of shelling residential districts of separatist-held Donetsk overnight, the first attack on central parts...
Russian terrorists shelled Vodiane village and killed civilians – ATO Press Center
On July 19, 2015, the ATO press center informs that the situation in Eastern Ukraine remained tense. Terrorists shelled Vodiane village with heavy artillery on July 18, 2015: “The Russian terrorist forces have been shelling Vodiane village for an hour and a half with 152-mm guns, 122-mm mortars, and tanks. According to preliminary data,...
Dmitry Tymchuk: Military update 7.17
Sunflower memorial in Amsterdam for the victims of flight MH17 downed in the fields of eastern Ukraine 1 year ago today. Source Operational data from Information Resistance: Russian-terrorist troops in Donbas continued actively firing on the ATO forces positions and civilian objects in ways that prevent the OSCE from recording violations...
National Security and Defense Council:Three Avdiivka residents die as a result of militant shelling
Kyiv, July 18, 2015. Three residents of Avdiivka have died after the artillery shelling of the city’s residential districts launched by Russia-backed militants. An elderly woman born in 1942, her 10-years-old grandchild with disabilities, as well as a 49-years-old man whose body was found under the remnants of the ruined building, perished as a...
MH17: Calls grow for justice one year on
Relatives of those killed when flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine exactly a year ago joined emotional memorials on Friday. …read more Source:...
Germans heed Merkel’s warning
German lawmakers clear the way for talks on a third Greek bailout after Chancellor Angela Merkel warnings. ||| Berline – German lawmakers cleared the way for talks on a third Greek bailout after Chancellor Angela Merkel warned failing to try would be reckless and sow chaos. With Europe’s currency union under threat, Merkel faced down...
MH17: day of truth may soon come
Should anyone be surprised that a year after Flight MH17 was shot down, that there is still no admission as to who was responsible? ||| On a hillside an hour or so outside of Donetsk, men equipped with stretchers, body bags and green rubber gloves were doing the best they could. The wreckage and debris from MH17 had scattered far and wide, and so...
‘Moral duty’ to punish MH17 murderers
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called it a “moral duty” to punish those who shot down flight MH17. …read more Source:...