Articles — OstroV

"Whose side are you on?" Luhansk journal

08/24/2023 10:20 2439

don't know when it happened for the first time - a blunt message "Choose". It was clear to me that he was tired. Simply tired of poverty, struggles, rented rooms from alcoholic landladies. And his bluntness was his fatigue, the result of piling problems and complete uncertainty ahead. He was in Kyiv, and I was in Luhansk...

Native foreign city: Donetsk journal

08/18/2023 18:34 2434

The city that hosted the UEFA Euro 2012 is gradually transforming into a remote Soviet province. And it's not just because the war has been ongoing for nine years. Boarded-up windows and crumbling building facades certainly don't add glamour to the former capital of Donbas, but there are other factors at play...

Elections during wartime: if desired, they can be held

08/15/2023 16:29 2460

However, on July 28, an unexpected statement came from the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, asserting that the Ukrainian Constitution does not prohibit holding elections during martial law. Furthermore, according to him, the actualization of such a question will occur in the near future...

Luhansk journal: "No talks of the end of the war. We've gotten used to this too"

08/10/2023 17:06 2371

And we're amazed to notice new benches, curbs and perfect roads in the city. We, like savages, are watching with enthusiasm, wondering how amazing things could be and that they could happen to us. Interestingly, we're getting involved and getting used to it. We like it. We're no longer comparing. We perplexedly note that queues are the norm. Queues for everything and everywhere...

The population has noticeably increased in Donetsk. Who are all these people?

08/04/2023 18:01 2380

Currently, something inexplicable is happening in Donetsk during the summer period. The city is filled with people, and the number of cars on the roads, even compared to April and May, has increased significantly...

The post-war future of the southeast: new opportunities

07/31/2023 20:23 2300

Economic growth in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, as well as in Crimea after their de-occupation, will become the priority task for the Ukrainian authorities. Certain preparatory work has already been done, and now the decisive word belongs to the Armed Forces of Ukraine...

Economy under occupation: lies and plunder

07/26/2023 13:20 2192

Therefore, only people who fully understand that their presence in the occupied Donbas is temporary would consider coming here. Within this limited time, they need to extract as much as possible from the mines as quickly as possible...

Attack on the Crimean Bridge: "red lines are over, now the brown ones have begun"

07/24/2023 13:31 2080

When the whole "Wagner PMC thing" happened, I asked all my acquaintances and colleagues in Sevastopol, and they were all in favor of Prigozhin. And when we discussed the new bridge explosion, someone said that it wouldn't have happened under his watch...

The main problem with NATO. The masks have fallen off

07/14/2023 13:48 2218

On the one hand, the Alliance's leaders do not want Ukraine to lose the war and are doing everything to prevent it. But on the other hand, they fear the only possible victory that could truly ensure long-term peace – the fall of putin's regime and the transformation of russia. And if they fear it, they are not striving for such a victory...

Between moscow and Simeiz: how the LGBTQ+ community in Crimea adapts to new realities

07/12/2023 16:30 2161

The russian dictator himself decided to pour fuel on the fire. In June 2023, putin instructed the creation of an institute for the study of the behavior of LGBTQ+ individuals based on a federal psychiatric center...

Serhiy Harmash: Prigozhin did not want to stop the war but conduct it according to his own script

07/05/2023 20:43 2309

"The czar is good". They didn't want to overthrow putin. They wanted to keep him as the symbol, the showcase of russian power. However, at the same time, those planning the uprising wanted to wield that power...

Russia is creating filtration camps for the Donetsk locals. Donetsk journal

06/28/2023 20:52 2164

In addition, without a russian passport, some district polyclinics no longer accept blood, urine and stool tests. And in private laboratories, the prices for these services are exorbitant. But even that was not enough for the genocide of Ukrainians in the occupied territories. Now they are planning to build filtration camps...

Without water and tourists: blowing up of the Kakhovka HPP and its consequences for Crimea

06/21/2023 14:28 2234

We've been through this before. We had explosions on the Crimean Bridge and drones in the center of Sevastopol, and they say everything is 'under control'. The authorities emphasize that there are currently water reserves. Okay, no one disputes that. But what will we do when these reserves run out?

Today's Donetsk through the eyes of a refugee. What has changed compared to February 2022?

06/14/2023 13:21 2694

Life in Donetsk has drastically changed compared to February 2022. For those who left and were forced to return for some reason, the differences are striking. The city wakes up at six in the morning, and by five in the evening the streets are already empty. This was not the case before. By the way, those who left after February 2022 mostly come back to bury their loved ones who remained here and passed away...

"Mom, take me back!". Stories of two teenage girls from Kherson, whom their mothers were able to bring back from russia after an illegal removal

06/08/2023 16:07 2215

The deportation of Ukrainian children to russia by the occupiers takes various forms. It includes organized removal of orphaned children who are quickly "placed" into new "families", trips under the pretext of health improvement or vacation, and departure due to russian narratives that Ukrainian soldiers will "come and shoot everyone", as well as the motivation of seeking basic safety...

The temptation of money. Donetsk journal

06/05/2023 10:37 2267

It was time for gullible pensioners who receive the minimum pension to rush for russian passports. They lined up in orderly rows at the migration offices, and representatives of the mass disinformation services were quick to produce "truthful" stories about how many residents of Donetsk want to obtain russian citizenship. Although in reality, these people do not care about which country to be a citizen of...

Roman Svitan: the russians will definitely not try to seize Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, it is out of the question

06/01/2023 17:12 2777

We need to have a clean territory behind us (in Crimea) where there are no armed russians. This could happen by the end of summer or the beginning of autumn. And then, in autumn, the operation to liberate the Donbas could begin. By then, Ukraine could have modern F-16 fighters and long-range strike capabilities. Fighter aircraft are needed to crush the russian grouping in the Donbas...

"No one has arrived", or May holidays in Crimea

05/25/2023 12:25 2372

How many tourists has Crimea lost after the tragedy on the bridge? The answer is simple – a lot, and as long as inspection on the bridge takes more than 15-20 minutes, a huge segment of potential tourists simply disappears.

Where does friendship end? The EU and the "grain crisis" from Ukraine

05/18/2023 10:00 2581

The problem, which led to five neighboring countries (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria) imposing an import ban on agricultural products from Ukraine in mid-April, has several causes...

Luhansk journal. What have we done to deserve all this?

05/11/2023 15:54 2881

Like Duncan MacLeod, I have already lived four lives, in four different states, but I have never left my city. I remember the changes during the collapse of the USSR, obtaining Ukrainian documents, the transition to the new state of the "LNR", unrecognized by anyone, with queues and documents. And now some new, another, russian stage. Another one?...

Donbas ghosts. How Ukraine gave away Donbas...

05/05/2023 15:25 2695

It's a shame that the realization of these terrible mistakes has to be made against the backdrop of hundreds of thousands of deaths. But even worse is that people who find it psychologically easier to blame anyone but themselves for their troubles (putin, russians, russian speakers...) are not correcting, but exacerbating these mistakes right now...

This sweet taste of non-freedom... Luhansk journal

04/28/2023 09:59 2385

The city is undergoing massive repairs. We have never seen anything like this, and for us it seems like another dimension. The workers are energetic and work tirelessly in any weather. They don't look like they're dying and forced to work for pennies like us. They exude prosperity...

Serhiy Datsyuk: Another war with russia is not the worst thing that awaits us

04/25/2023 14:46 2604

Because of the foolishness of some of our patriots, we will pay for it for decades, because they directed their energy in the wrong direction - towards radical Ukrainization, instead of creating air and missile defense systems, tanks, airplanes, drones, mortars, and so on. I don't dispute their goals, they are quite understandable, but I dispute how much energy they put into it...

"Expecters should be punished". How SMERSH is being revived in Crimea

04/19/2023 14:41 2441

"Expecters" who are hunted by the Crimean SMERSH include not only Crimeans leaking coordinates of military facilities to the Ukrainian Armed Forces but also those who "publish anti-russian songs and slogans, perform "Nazi songs" (such as Ukrainian song titled "Oi u luzi chervona kalyna")...

Ukrainian pensions in occupied territories: from being credited the funds to receiving them

04/13/2023 15:00 2347

I receive the minimum pension, whether in Ukraine or russia. Combined, they help me to survive somehow, so I'm not complaining. There are those who have it much harder. But I'm wondering, if Ukraine does get Mariupol back after all, will russia continue to pay us pensions?"...

Putin offended residents of Donetsk. Donetsk journal

04/05/2023 22:14 2240

Imagine their disappointment when on the morning of March 20, they were told on television that the "tsar" had visited Mariupol and talked to the locals, but didn't even mention Donetsk. They did not expect such a slap in the face, although they saw that huge amounts of money were poured into the reconstruction of the "liberated" city, while their city was mercilessly destroyed after the "integration"...

Putin's visit to Crimea and new drone attacks: locals don't understand what that was all about

03/29/2023 19:14 2325

Locals were surprised that the he did not say a word about the war or safety in the region. Moreover, putin did not make any statements or hold any meetings in the occupied Crimea...

Myths about Ukraine. Luhansk journal

03/23/2023 13:38 2307

I regularly hear stories about severed genitals of prisoners of war and their subsequent suicides. And that the prisoners return here either crippled or emaciated from hunger. Not only closed-minded pensioners believe in this, but also internet users...

Missed aim, or Why the tenth package of sanctions looks like a blunder

03/16/2023 12:03 2511

If we use an analogy with shooting, the EU once again limited itself to a warning shot, not even trying to aim precisely at the "bullseye". American "anniversary" sanctions are traditionally broader. But they are not as effective as they could be either...

"After our victory, we will be left with only scorched land and hatred towards those who did it". Review of publications from the occupied Donbas

03/09/2023 14:20 2405

I managed to see Soledar, but it would be better if I haven’t seen it. Little was left of the city, less than of Mariupol. There were no civilians left in this city, and there is nowhere for them to return to. And, judging by the roar of the artillery, the same fate awaited Bakhmut...

A loss that no one noticed. Luhask journal

03/03/2023 19:42 2408

The fact that there is no mobile Internet in the "republic" I learned from Ukrainian sources. This happens very often when everyone around is talking about our internal problem, and you didn’t even know that it was a problem...

A year of full-scale war. Results and what’s next?

02/28/2023 15:53 2520

"If someone thinks that the war will end this year, then these are unacceptable optimistic expectations. We need to prepare for serious trials and focus on the liberation of Ukraine"...

Stigmatization of IDPs, or Discrimination based on registration of residence

02/21/2023 16:00 2460

"They began to look at me as a potential saboteur and warmonger. Additional checks, difficulties in finding new housing and banking difficulties have returned again"...

Pandora's box that Russians have opened, or The tail that already wags the nuclear dog

02/10/2023 19:39 2984

Russia opened a Pandora's box, depriving the state of monopoly on justice, the ability to pass sentences and to carry them out. PMCs kill people, not caring about the rule of law, justice, human rights and other achievements of the "rotten Western civilization." Moreover, PMCs do this not only in combat areas, but also in the rear...

Novynskyi: defense of the oligarch

02/10/2023 09:31 2529

In January, Smart Holding officially announced the transfer of its assets to Step Trust, headquartered in London. Thus, V.Novynskyi formally ceased to be the owner of Smart Holding, although in fact nothing had changed...

A "sacred" ass, or Who and why wanted to kill Rogozin in Donetsk

02/03/2023 16:20 4134

The nature of the destruction of the building clearly indicates that it was a caliber of 120 mm and not 155 mm. You don't even have to be an expert to see this. Now, let's try to understand the motives and capabilities of those who may be interested in the assassination attempt on the ex-"cosmonaut".

Strength and patience are wearing out. Donetsk journal

01/31/2023 11:34 2989

All of them are very different from the native Donbas residents. The "outsiders" differ not only in their appearance and peculiar dialect. They swear and litter a lot. They are boorish in public places and treat others with deliberate disdain. Even if they want to show kindness and respect for the elderly, it comes out as an insult...

Zhevago: the finish of the oligarch

01/26/2023 13:37 2991

The arrest of owner of the Finance and Credit Group Kostyantyn Zhevago by the French police in Courchevel ski resort and his forthcoming extradition to Ukraine may speed up the return of money stolen from the state. Prior to this, the process had been strangely stagnating for several years...

Tired of lies. Donetsk journal

01/19/2023 12:21 2624

During the raid, about 30 items with exorbitant prices were recorded compared to the Rostov oblast. Mostly vegetables and meat. Pushilin thoughtfully concluded: "As far as I understand, there is only the difference in the logistics that should remain due to the more expensive products’ transportation caused by an extra downtime at the border...

"We are preparing for the AFU entry. This is a matter of time". What people in Crimea say about the peninsula de-occupation

01/12/2023 14:56 2728

How did we get to the point where we are seriously discussing the possibility of the AFU entry? Has anyone talked about it before February 24, 2022? No. We discussed problems with roads, prices, tourism business and so on. Now our main issue is to survive...

Is the end of the war near? Forecasts for 2023 from military experts

01/06/2023 15:51 2800

The main question that worries Ukrainians today is whether it will end this year. Some experts and government officials predict a new large-scale offensive by russian troops and a war for years, others – a victory and a 2023 beach season in the de-occupied Crimea...

Serhiy Harmash: Next year for Donbas will be the most difficult in its history

12/29/2022 16:30 2653

That's why they will continue to kill Donetsk. On one side of the scale is putin's victory in the war, on the other are the people of Donetsk. What do you think he will choose? If the West stops or even reduces the supply...

Gas capitulation: how the EU helped putin

12/20/2022 12:01 2121

This allowed Gazprom to cover with a vengeance the losses from the decline in exports in physical terms. So, according to the results of the first half of the year, the corporation reported a record profit of 2.5 trillion rubles. This is 2.6 times more than in the same period in 2021...

Stockholm syndrome. Donetsk journal

12/16/2022 15:27 2662

There have been no passers-by slowly strolling through parks or boulevards since summer. And in recent weeks, there have definitely been more people in camouflage than ordinary civilians on the streets...

Refugees: stay do not leave

12/09/2022 17:22 2732

The longer the war lasts, the fewer refugees will want to return to Ukraine afterwards. But, of course, not everything will depend on their desire. An equally important factor is the policy of host governments and how much they are interested in the refugees to stay there.

The city became crowded. Donetsk journal

12/02/2022 11:48 2563

There have been noticeably more people in Donetsk in the past few weeks. All supermarket checkouts are now open, as it was before the summer of 2014. And these newcomers are definitely not IDPs from small towns of the "DNR" or the ones that were "evacuated" from the war zone....

National security. Who and why did Zelensky nationalize?

11/25/2022 15:55 2882

PJSC Ukrnafta, PJSC Ukrtatnafta, PrJSC Zaporizhtransformator, PJSC Motor Sich and PrJSC AvtoKrAZ passed to the management of the Ministry of Defense. Previously, these companies were owned by 3 oligarchs and a "red director". With regard to each of these assets, the country's leadership had its own considerations, which are discussed below...

They are happy about blackouts in Kyiv, while they don’t have heating themselves. Donetsk journal

11/17/2022 12:57 2629

It is still not clear what will the situation with the central heating be. The perspective is not bright at all. Sooner than later, the temperature will drop below zero degrees Celsius, and if the system is defrosted, the pipes will burst, and Donetsk may become a second Alchevsk...

Teachers are looking for deserters. Donetsk journal

11/07/2022 14:39 2732

Those, who did not have time to leave the "republic" before October 1, are now in a stalemate. They have only one option: to hide in rented apartments. And only God knows for how many months or years. And now they are being looked for...

Serhiy Hrabsky: It would be beneficial for the russians, if we got involved in street fighting in Kherson

10/28/2022 13:06 3013

Let’s not forget that according to official data, partial mobilization in russia has ended, so in a few weeks, we can expect the arrival of new units that can strengthen the ability of the occupiers to fight. This is an objective reality. We can read dozens of articles and watch many videos that show problems with their staffing, but we must understand that they will arrive at the frontline and create some problems...

"We will kill you. A million, 5 million, or we will even exterminate you all". Review of publications of the occupied Donbas

10/19/2022 16:35 2934

"It is necessary that rocket attacks on Ukraine become a routine, a good tradition, a familiar part of the morning landscape. So that people wake up one morning, and there is NO Ukraine as a state. Government buildings are empty, AFU positions abandoned, electricity and water supply long gone. And confused people wander in search of a strong Moscow hand"

Ukraine after the war: without Akhmetov and Kolomoyskyi

10/11/2022 09:45 2849

All of this means the loss of influence of the oligarchs on the Ukrainian economy and, accordingly, political influence, without which it is impossible to continue receiving unreasonable state favors...

Laughter and tears! On the annexation and its CONSEQUENCES for russians and other "peoples"

10/06/2022 11:21 3146

So, the battle will last until someone’s victory. And, given the resources of the russian federation and the West, the battle will be long, right up to the fall of the demoniac’s regime. And it will be EXACTLY ON the lands annexed by russia! Therefore, you, my dear homies who naively expect peace due to russian advent, on the contrary, rejoice in turning your region into a theater of warfare for an indefinite period...

Serhiy Harmash: putin's announcement of partial mobilization is good for us and bad for russia

09/23/2022 15:01 3090

In this referendums venture, I see signs of either the final atrophy of putin's brain, or some insidious game of his entourage in order to remove him from the political arena as soon as possible and prepare bargaining chips for themselves in secret negotiations with the West...

Roman Svitan: Nothing prevents us from moving on and liberating Ukraine up to the 1991 borders

09/21/2022 11:02 3238

We press where it bends, and we go forward where it breaks. Within a week, we will hear about the same problems the russians had with Izium. The front line will break somewhere again, and we will advance into this gap with the transfer of reserves...

Bluff and putin's last hope

09/16/2022 13:26 3733

There is simply no more reliable way to commit suicide for the russian economy than to stop supplying gas to the EU against the backdrop of the threat of a complete loss of income from oil exports. Therefore, now the putin regime has no choice but to scare the Europeans with a cold winter...

"Ukraine has never been as far away as it is now". Luhansk journal

09/09/2022 16:16 2943

Everyone, who used Vodafone, became unavailable. Viber was declared an enemy app and all those, with whom you communicated only via Viber, disappeared at once as well. Same happened to Facebook and Instagram. Your social circle suddenly narrowed down to local mobile operator subscribers, who also managed to swap their Ukrainian number to a russian one, changing the first three digits of the number...

Serhiy Hrabsky: There are at least three scenarios for the development of events in southern Ukraine

09/05/2022 18:36 3178

Nowadays, the density of their troops simply cannot provide the opportunity to advance in any direction. Yes, they can concentrate several battalion tactical groups and break through in a particular direction, but they will not be able to hold it.

The war has gotten to Crimea: who is responsible for the "bangs" and what’s next

08/26/2022 17:04 3009

Great progress. We started with the demilitarization of Ukraine, then everything went according to plan, later "we haven’t even started yet”, and now we are checking bomb shelters, testing air raid sirens, setting up additional roadblocks, and talking about the excellent work of air defense systems. Not only tourists leave, but also many locals who have the opportunity to live somewhere else in russia...

Oleh Zhdanov: Russia is provoking us for an offensive operation in the Donbas. We don't give in

08/11/2022 12:15 3212

They want us to believe that a massive offensive is underway in the Donetsk direction, so that we transfer our main reserves and forces there. And as soon as it happens, they will begin an offensive in a southern direction...

Russia and sanctions: the EU goes into the "trenches"

08/03/2022 16:57 3231

For understanding: the average market price of Urals russian oil in May was $83/bbl. That is, the Chinese and Indians bought this resource cheaply, at almost half the price. How long the kremlin is ready to give away oil for nothing is a good question. Since, according to expert data, $40/bbl is the maximum cost of russian oil production...

Mobilization in Ukraine: politicians against the military

07/21/2022 16:37 4191

Many considered this to be Presidential Office’s specially planned campaign aimed at discrediting the General Staff and Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, who signed the relevant order. Rumors of a strained relationship between them have been circulating for more than a month...

How people leave the occupation: filtration, checkpoints and scammers

07/15/2022 11:17 3128

Our driver had already driven several times, so he knew what to answer them. The only minus is that he, like many others, does not carry men. He says that they are most often left at the checkpoints...

Tamila Tasheva: After the atrocities we saw, neither the issue of Crimea, nor the issue of the Donbas can be left out

07/06/2022 17:15 3341

There are a lot of Crimean residents, who quietly hated the russian federation for all these eight years, and only now, after the horrors in Mariupol, Irpin and Bucha, they began to voice their position. And these are not just Crimean Tatars and local activists, these are completely different people who led a normal life and did not participate in human rights campaigns...

Oleh Zhdanov: Sievierodonetsk has fulfilled its task. We exhausted the enemy and inflicted huge losses on him

07/01/2022 13:02 3265

I think that in the Donbas, as well as in all other directions, the russians will soon go on the defensive. It is not their wish list. They will be forced to do this in order to somehow stabilize the situation. Although defense for them is the beginning of defeat...

Crimea is losing tourists. Dissatisfaction with war is growing

06/20/2022 13:56 3206

Almost two times fewer tourists visited Crimea during the May holidays than a year earlier. This is despite the fact that, according to OstroV, at least half of those who visited were state employees who came on free vouchers...

Serhiy Harmash: It is critically important for Ukraine to keep at least 5% of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts under our control

06/14/2022 15:22 3514

If things go badly for the russians in the Donbas, then I admit the possibility of their withdrawal from the South of Ukraine in exchange for an agreement on the supply of Ukrainian water to Crimea. I know that they are already testing the ground for such a compromise

Ukrainian energy industry: further without russia

06/10/2022 13:11 3266

It makes sense to expect an increase in revenue from electricity exports at least twice this year, given that earlier, the power units of Ukrainian nuclear power plants did not operate at full capacity. Because their electricity was not in demand in such volumes in the domestic market...

Putin has marked the territories he wants to take from Ukraine, and offers the West to put up with it in exchange for an end to the escalation

06/02/2022 16:16 3239

While the russian federation is advancing, it is a problem for the West. But as soon as putin takes control of the Donetsk, the Luhansk and the rest of the Zaporizhzhia oblast, the russian army will dig in there and stop the offensive. That is, it will cease to be a threat of escalation. After that, it is Ukraine, which will try to advance in order to regain its territory, that will become an escalation threat for the West...

Free trade zones: second diplomatic front

05/19/2022 21:21 3200

A brief analysis of the document allows us to say that the current Ukrainian officials have finally stopped "leaking" the country's economic interests to their partners for the sake of imaginary political gain...

Meet war in Slavutych and return to Crimea: a story from the occupation

05/13/2022 12:40 3217

Krystyna did not believe in a full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine. Although some acquaintances in the Crimea warned her against a trip to Slavutych. It was said that American intelligence was constantly talking about a possible big war for a reason...

Starting the war, putin overestimated the loyalty of Ukrainians to russia. Review of publications of the occupied Donbas

05/05/2022 17:31 3479

Nightmare. "What a universal stupidity and injustice", He covered someone's snags with a "voluntary presence" where he does not belong!", "To whom it became easier from the fact that such creative professionals in their field, but not in the military one, were sent there?", "This is some kind of madness. How can you send people of art to this hell?

"The Donbas was bombed for 8 years, and you did not give a f*ck". What they say in Crimea about the war

04/28/2022 11:08 3891

Look what is happening with Kharkiv, Mariupol and other Russian-speaking cities. This is all being done on purpose to destroy all Russians and build new Ukrainian cities on the ruins. I am not even talking about the biological laboratories that were based there. There is no doubt that this is true...

Pokrovsk-Dnipro, old people and children. War Chronicles

04/15/2022 21:12 3485

The prices of food and other goods have skyrocketed. Everything that suppliers managed to bring to stores is immediately sold out. We repeatedly buy products. The freezer is full. If the electricity is turned off, everything will be spoiled. Neighbors began to equip a shelter in the basement...

Russian World in Ukrainian Borodianka. Story in pictures

04/13/2022 22:20 3404

Women were also killed. One old woman with a disability lived in the basement, walked badly and could not even talk right. They got in and killed her. I asked what they killed for, why did they behave like that? - From envy. They have arrived wild. Bicycles were taken out of the yards, they rode, motorcycles… we have gas even in the worst house. And they do not have that. So they acted brutally…”

Rubizhne: A city that must be resurrected. Chronicles of war

04/06/2022 17:54 3391

Now it is a ruin. Surreal scenery with half starved people and abandoned animals… This is about the lucky ones. In addition to the above-mentioned creatures, whose task is to survive, there are still uncounted and unburied victims. There are severely wounded, who could not be reached by doctors. The wounded who are in agony waiting to die...

Russia's recognition of "DNR"-"LNR": another performance, or an act of desperation?

02/18/2022 16:39 4111

Therefore, today's decision of the Duma is more of a political demarche than a change in the policy of the Russian Federation regarding Donbas. By the way, this is a very bad signal for the residents of CADLO. They want to live in a normal state. And they were promised for a long time that "great Russia" would be this state. But received the consolidation of the bandit reservation at the legal level. Bummer!...

Serhiy Harmash: About "Minsk-3", referendum, and why Putin needs pileup of forces

02/17/2022 13:11 4756

Negotiations, especially with the participation of leading Western countries, tie Russia's hands in terms of the use of military force. So negotiations are time. We are gaining time...

"We are being pumped with information that Ukraine will attack the Donbas". What people in Crimea say about a possible war

02/07/2022 10:52 4112

Day and night we are told that Ukraine is going to attack the Donbas, where our Russian brothers live. All this is supposedly happening on the initiative of the USA and NATO. This is a brief summary of information that comes from TVs, local newspapers and various social networks...

Moscow's plans are being clarified. Why Putin needs recognition of the "republics"

01/27/2022 17:55 4091

Stroke by stroke, detail by detail, the most probable scenario that Moscow is really, and not ostentatiously, preparing for Ukraine appears… If Kyiv agrees to this, then two scenarios are possible...

How "guerrilla warfare" becomes a separate type of the Armed Forces

01/21/2022 09:27 3905

In everyday, non-legal language, territorial defense units are designed to protect each region from any manifestations of separatism, terrorism and other forms of armed aggression as effectively as possible...

"Occupation of Ukraine will not start from the Russian borders". Threats to negotiations between the West and Russia

01/14/2022 14:11 3686

Both sides of the confrontation are determined to maintain the status quo at least tactically, which will allow Moscow to get some small concessions from Washington and pass them off as a "global victory", while the West consoles itself with the fact that it has allegedly saved Europe from war...

From scarcity to coercion: specifics of vaccination against COVID-19 in occupied territories

12/28/2021 13:15 3835

"There are many problems even of a technical nature. I was revaccinated, I have a QR code, but in Donetsk. I am a citizen of Russia as well, and I am registered on the State Services website. But the QR code is not suitable because of the technical input"...

Economy of the Russian world in CADLO: Lies and desolation

12/17/2021 12:13 3742

Therefore, no growth is planned in fact, the current "authorities" in Donetsk simply hope to return to the pre-coronavirus level in 2-3 years. As for the expected increase in wages, you need to understand that now it is at bargain-basement levels...

Checkpoints in Donbas: getting used to live in isolation

12/10/2021 19:08 3776

Those who are not directly affected by this problem do not understand that it is not an abstract travel restriction of citizens, but disunited families, lack of freedom to choose a place of study or work and inability to visit the graves of relatives, or still living relatives…

Population of CADO is reduced by pseudo-vaccination with investigational drug

12/02/2021 18:07 3704

"The instruction was prepared on the basis of a limited amount of clinical data on the use of the drug and will be supplemented as new data becomes available. The protective titer of antibodies is currently unknown. The duration of protection is unknown…"

Heating season 2021-2022: new challenges

11/26/2021 16:07 3714

Russia and Belarus are being integrated into a single union state today and the Lukashenko regime has become for the Kremlin as puppet as, for example, the "DNR"-"LNR" "authorities". It is clear that if Moscow launched an energy attack on Ukraine from its side, then it can easily turn on an energy blockade on the part of the "union" Belarus at any moment...

Kremlin is tired: everything you need to know about the current situation in the Donbas and Russia's actions

11/12/2021 11:55 4224

The Russian Federation denies that it has any obligations under the Minsk agreements or the N-4 decisions and distances itself from participation in the events, missions or institutions that may indicate these obligations...

Tax amnesty: why has it already failed?

10/28/2021 20:19 3765

Thus, following the results of the amnesty, 0.026% of "shadow" income can be legalized in a year. An indicator next to none. Even if it grows 100 times in some mysterious way, it should still be considered a failure...

Bluff and provocation! Why "DNR" militants block OSCE work in Donbas

10/20/2021 16:30 3897

Why do they need this muppet show? There is every expectation that the actions of the militants to take members of the OSCE SMM hostage and demand that Ukraine return the "LNR" militant Andrey Kosyak it detained is a bluff and psychological pressure that will not have serious consequences for the work of the OSCE Mission...

Pure corruption! Fines for CADLO residents for travel through Russia continue

10/11/2021 10:04 3813

The phrase "humanitarian reasons" is corrupt. It allows border guards to continue writing out protocols on administrative offense.

Industry in CADLO: The curse of Vneshtorgservis

09/30/2021 14:06 3965

Conditions impossible not just for a decent life – but for elementary survival – are being deliberately created. But, of course, turning CADLO into a completely depopulated desert is also impossible – the subject for the foreign policy bargaining on the future fate of the region is lost in this case. Therefore, there will be no complete cessation of subsidies from the Kremlin...

"Election" showed: "Russian World" perished in the Donbas!

09/27/2021 10:27 3798

This "election" became a vivid evidence of the desacralization of the Russian "passportization" from the point of view of the ideology of the Russian Spring. The entire value of the Russian passport was reduced for the residents of CADLO purely to receiving material benefits from the occupier, collecting, so to speak, compensation for the ruined lives…

The holiday continues! The level of COVID-19 diseases in Donetsk is growing despite the "mass vaccination"

09/16/2021 10:17 3709

On August 4, restrictions began to operate in the Rostov oblast, according to which entry to administrative institutions is prohibited without a vaccination certificate. The new rules also apply to the residents of the "LDNR"...

"We are drowning and, probably, will soon touch the bottom. And nothing can save us"

09/06/2021 10:11 4014

Plain and simple: the more coal a mine produces, the lower the cost per ton, the more it earns. In the absence of investment in development, production will continue to fall, while debts - and the penalties charged on them - will rise. This is a common problem for Ukrainian mines...

Everything for tourists: how Crimea is experiencing a new "wave" of coronavirus

08/20/2021 10:06 4024

Considering that Russia cannot get such a vaccine for all the money in the world, and there is no way to Europe for us, the only opportunity is mainland Ukraine. But most Crimeans are afraid to even plan a trip to Ukraine after so many years of propaganda...

Akhmetov expands his power…

08/12/2021 10:42 3910

It is not just about market monopolization. That is, the ability to dictate the prices to suppliers and buyers – taking advantage of the fact that there is no other buyer/seller able to offer more favorable conditions. Everything is much more serious: the growth of the economic power of R.Akhmetov's business empire accordingly increases his influence on Ukrainian politics...

Tool-2… Forecast of the development of situation in the Donbas

07/30/2021 14:00 3783

This suggests that Moscow reserves the opportunity for itself to carry out new aggressive actions in the South-East of Ukraine by the hands of the armed forces of CADLO. Moreover, such aggression is becoming a necessary tool for the Kremlin to coerce Kyiv into direct negotiations with its puppets in Donetsk and Luhansk…

A tool… How Russia uses Donbas against Ukraine and the West

07/30/2021 13:51 2073

There is no need to change the text of the Minsk agreements, or to accept any new agreements (Russia will not agree to this to the detriment of itself), - it is enough just to bring the Minsk process into line with the existing Minsk texts. This alone will lead to the emergence in the negotiations of the second party of the conflict - Russia...

Referendum on the Donbas "wall": blackmail, signal or reality?

07/12/2021 17:44 3847

This was a signal to Russia and its Western partners, which are inclined to the option of softening their positions with respect to the Russian Federation, that Ukraine is ready to defend its territories in all possible ways. It cannot continue the way it has been going on for seven years. Whether Russia recognizes itself as a party to the conflict and fulfills the Minsk agreements, or we change our policy, including the one concerning the Minsk agreements...