Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. An interactive map of the situation: View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For links to individual […]
Tag: Slavyansk
Ukraine Liveblog Day 101: Helicopter Shot Down Over Slavyansk
Yesterday’s liveblog can be found here. For an overview and analysis of this developing story see our latest podcast. Please help The Interpreter to continue providing this valuable information service by making a donation towards our costs. An interactive map of the situation: View Ukraine: April, 2014 in a larger map For links to individual […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 100: The Battle For Donetsk Continues
There have been reports of gunfire in Donetsk this morning on the third day of a renewed government effort to push back separatist fighters from the region. Barricades are still up along roads to the airport (scene of intense fighting on Monday as the Ukrainian army and air force retook the site, inflicting heavy casualties […]
French Journalist Describes Capture by Slavyansk Separatists
The following is a translation of a harrowing account in Gazeta.ru from a French journalist and her cameramen who were taken captive in Slavyansk right at the time Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and his translator Andrei Mironov were killed in shelling by the roadside. While the account, edited by Elizaveta Antonova, is dated 26 May, […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 99: Renewed Fighting Around Donetsk Following Airport Assault
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On Election Eve, Controversy Over Russian Election Observation Mission
This article was written on Saturday, May 24, ahead of today’s elections. Kiev: Election observers have descended on Ukraine for the presidential elections this Sunday, May 25. Given the tumultuous situation in Ukraine’s separatist eastern regions, Luhansk and Donetsk, the elections are particularly important for legitimating Ukraine’s central government and reestablishing faith in Ukraine’s democracy […]
Ukraine Liveblog Day 96: On Eve of Election, Separatists Declare the Formation of a United ‘Novorossiya’
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Ukraine Liveblog Day 95: Another Deadly Ambush Near Donetsk
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Ukraine Liveblog Day 93: Akhmetov Tells Donbass to ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’
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Is Separatist Colonel Strelkov the Kremlin’s ‘Wag the Dog’ Gone Out of Bounds?
Oleg Kashin, the prominent Russian blogger forced into exile in Europe after brutal attacks on him in his homeland, has an article at the independent web site slon.ru which is being avidly discussed on Russian social media. Titled “From Crimea to the Donbass: The Adventures of Igor Strelkov and Aleksandr Boroday,” the piece explores the […]