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Ukraine At War
Novorossiya Theory Meets Novorossiya Reality in Donetsk
A press conference in Donetsk today organized by Russian ultranationalist leftist Sergei Kurginyan, together with pro-Russian separatist fighters in southeast Ukraine turned into a shouting match as the fighters accused this Muscovite championing their cause, who has been finding them supposedly private channels of military aid, of being out of touch with their war and […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 141: Ukrainian Defence Minister – No More Unilateral Ceasefires
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Ukraine Liveblog Day 140: Shooting Returns to Maidan As Separatists Regroup in Donetsk
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Ukrainian Liveblog Day 139: Ukrainian Flag Raised Over Slavyansk, Relief Delivered
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Ukrainian Liveblog Day 138: Pro-Russian Separatists Flee Slavyansk, Leaving Prisoners
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Putin Regime Has No Challengers But is ‘Liquidating’ Itself, Piontkovsky Says
Staunton, July 4 – Vladimir Putin has eliminated challengers to his regime by integrating some within it and repressing those beyond it, but despite that achievement, his “regime is engaged in its own liquidation” and those who do not like what he has been doing must search each other out online and be ready for […]
Ukraine Day 137: Kiev Says It Controls Two-Thirds Of The East
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Russia This Week: How Many Refugees Are There from Ukraine?
Updated Daily. The Russian government’s numbers of “110,000” refugees from the armed conflict in Ukraine are clearly exaggerated, even if there are likely at least tens of thousands, but with reporters barred from the area and towns under declared states of emergency, it’s difficult to get the real story. The US government has added Chechen […]
Pro-Russian Separatists Say Their Fighters’ Death Toll Has Reached 1,000
Russian-backed separatists fighting in southeastern Ukraine have not always been willing to acknowledge the extent of casualties and mortalities in battle. Frequent gunfire and disruption in communications have made it difficult both to count and to bury the dead. But last week, a spokesman for the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) held a press conference […]