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The Front National leader claims that the internationally condemned referendum in March, 2014, was legal.

The war in Ukraine, having cost more than 9,000 lives since it begun in the spring of 2014, has now entered a relatively stagnant phase. No major offensives have occurred since Russian regular forces assaulted the city of Debaltsevo in February, 2015. Along the static front lines, warfare more closely resembles that of the First […]

There were no casualties reported today by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, but fighting remained intense particularly around Mariupol. Ukrainians marked the 82nd anniversary of Stalin’s terror-famine, known as the Holodomor.

The Ukrainian military reported 25 attacks yesterday.

Heavy fighting continued in southeastern Ukraine today, on par with the escalation in the last week, with 6 Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Avdeyevka, northwest of Donetsk. There were unconfirmed reports of 3 Russia-backed fighters killed and 2 wounded.

Four Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in combat while a civilian was reportedly injured in separatist-held Dokuchaevsk.

One Ukrainian soldier was wounded near Avdeyevka.

Ukraine reports 72 attacks yesterday, the highest number since August.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the 22.5 and 20 year sentences imposed on the two Ukrainians despite testimony extracted under torture being retracted.

Meanwhile heavy shelling is reported today near Mariupol and Avdeyevka