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"DNR" and "LNR" leaders simultaneously state holding of "military exercises" in occupied Donbass

11:48 01/18

Сourt in Moscow extends arrest of all Ukrainian captured seamen

12:21 01/16

Ukrainian sailors in Lefortovo court refuse to testify, insisting on status of prisoners of war

17:24 01/15

Russian propagandist is proud that Girkin fired at AFU positions in Sloviansk using journalists as a cover

16:47 01/15

Militants fired 12 times on Monday: one Ukrainian defender killed, two wounded

11:36 01/15

Christmas holidays in Donetsk, or Life with uncertainty

01/17/2019 10:49 11

Donetsk turns into a ghost town. Half-empty streets, broken windows, collapsing facades of houses, thriving marauding. Central streets seem to be lit, but due to the lack of light in windows, it seems that the city has plunged into darkness...

"LNR" miners send "New Year's" letters to Pasechnik and "prosecutors"

12/28/2018 14:38 58

They took him in his underwear at a temperature of -2, they took out several people who were taking part in the strike out of town, gave them shovels and forced them to dig holes, and while they were digging holes, they told what they would do to their wives and children...

Vyacheslav Likhachev: "The current situation has a cumulative depressive effect"

12/19/2018 13:02 67

The parliamentary and presidential elections of the next year will not be held in a large part of the controlled territory of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Also "for security reasons", but with a political estimate, because the people of these regions do not have much sympathy for the ruling president and parties of the current government...

In the space of four years… Luhansk journal

12/13/2018 14:55 71

Of course, now you no longer buy vodka from the trunk or medicine from the hands. It is just about the life has returned to the pre-war scheme – they sell pills in pharmacies and underpants at the market. The roles are set...

Transformations of reality. How and why martial law was imposed in Ukraine

11/29/2018 12:13 99

The emergency mode is likely to quietly come to its end along with the alarming 2018. What, however, will remain is the newly acquired habit of the Ukrainian society to the threat of radical restriction of its rights and freedoms when the "Motherland is in danger"...

Whom the occupied Donbass hears and sees. Reception dishes against TV towers

11/23/2018 11:07 135

Can we talk about the information blockade? I think no. At least in Donetsk, Horlivka and Makiivka. Well, first of all, because the majority of the population of these cities are miners and metallurgists, who, as we know, always had good salaries and pensions. Consequently, most of them have already set reception dishes on the balconies and roofs of their houses about ten years ago. Young and middle-aged people have long got the necessary information from the World Wide Web...

About the election in Luhansk. How it was

11/15/2018 12:56 128

At the exit, those who had voted were given a voucher to replenish the Lugacom operator's account for $1.5 and calendar for the next year. Children and everyone interested received balloons with the symbols of election and colors of the "republican" flag...

Russia does not mind freezing part of the Luhansk region, "knocking out" Ukrainian light for the "LNR"

11/09/2018 13:49 167

The Russian party insists on the supply of electricity to the territory of Luhansk oblast which is beyond the control of Ukraine. There is not enough electricity, which is now in the occupied territory of the oblast. They need an additional source...

Cooperation of castaways, or How Crimea, CDDLO and South Ossetia can help each other

11/06/2018 22:54 110

But is coal needed on the peninsula? There are several wind and solar power stations, as well as Crimean CHPP in Simferopol, Sakskaya CHPP and Kamysh-Burunskaya CHPP. They run on natural gas. Besides, they are low-powered: all of the listed assets provide 21% of the peninsula's electricity needs...