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“Minsk” behind the scenes. Confession of a non-diplomat. Part 2
She then appeared on the screen, flushed, fastening the top buttons of her blouse. “Natalia Vladimirovna, where on earth are you?” asked Ambassador Grau, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office’s Special Representative, with a touch of feminine sarcasm. Nikanorova did not reply. — Either from the beach, or after...
“Minsk” behind the scenes. Confession of a non-diplomat
“Minister” Nikanorova rolled her eyes, jumped up and ran off somewhere. And her brother, who represented the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in the security subgroup and, as it turned out, headed an entire “administration” of Pushilin (the leader of the “DNR”), was outraged that I equated myself with their “ministerial” status...
Without Telegram. Luhansk journal
On March 22, they slowed down Telegram. As loud as it may sound, it felt like the world stopped. What about all the texts, connections with family members!? It turned out that all life was in Telegram...
Intensification of mobilization in Ukraine: digitalization and total tracking
Mobilization in Ukraine may soon move into a significantly stricter and more controlled phase. This is not about isolated targeted changes, but about an attempt to close several key “gray zones” at once...
“The war in the Middle East is a blow to China and a chance for russia”: expert Mykhailo Honchar explained what’s going on in the energy market
Will the current crisis become a new “energy shock” for the world? Who actually benefits from rising oil prices? And is China capable of stabilizing the situation by acting not only as a consumer but also as a geopolitical mediator?
Forced evacuation: what the new law provides for and why human rights defenders criticize it
This concerns not only cases of refusal to evacuate. The norm may also be applied in other situations. For example, if parents do not go with the child to a bomb shelter or leave the child alone at home. Theoretically, this may be interpreted as failure to ensure the child’s safety and become grounds for removing the child...
Crimea in a state of tension: 12 years of occupation and systemic problems
Yes, russia illegally took Crimea in 2014, just as it is now doing with another territory of Ukraine. But this has already happened, and let’s be honest, no fair referendum or vote today would be on Ukraine’s side...
It’s not about territories! Or why Donbas must not be surrendered
If Zelensky agrees now to voluntarily withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Donbas, then this will no longer be negotiations, but simply the signing of a capitulation. Since peace on the terms of one side is exactly that — capitulation. That is, in such a case, Kyiv will de facto recognize its defeat in the war and moscow’s victory. But objectively, Zelensky has no reasons to take such a step...
Second-hand embarrassment of the “liberated” Avdiivka. Overview of the occupied Donbas media
It is obvious that the propaganda of the occupied Donbas loves cheerfully patriotic news hooks. The most valuable are anniversaries of past victories and, of course, the successes of the so-called “special military operation”. Thus, last week, the collaborationist authorities recalled that two years ago russian troops managed to capture Avdiivka, which had been almost completely destroyed by the occupiers’ missiles and bombs...
The Dayton Accords: how an “imperfect peace” stopped the war… and froze the conflict
For Ukraine, this experience matters not as a model to copy, but as a warning about the price of compromises concluded under pressure and without a clear understanding of what the state will look like “after peace”...
We are ungrateful. Luhansk journal
An elderly person definitely won’t cope with this. The world is changing too fast, it’s not for the elderly. Not for weak people. And, strangely enough, on social media people don’t thank anyone for new paths, but complain about new tariffs, about changes that are too rapid, about a world that is often not as friendly as we expected...
Fake victories of the russian army, marines near Pokrovsk, and the energy crisis — Ivan Stupak on enemy’s plans
It looks like a constant attempt to demonstrate positive results. Because those at the top are waiting for them. Their logic is simple: not a day without a result, not a day without a capture...
Personnel rotation in wartime: what the latest appointments in power really mean
This is the strangest dismissal. Some say it is revenge for Yermak, the Mindich story; others say it is a request from Kyrylo Budanov, because they have rather tense relations (not conflictual); still others say it is simply renewal for the sake of renewal. The most discussed version in the corridors is Maliuk’s excessively high media activity and his contacts with the Americans....
“Short-lived happiness”. Luhansk journal
A refrigerator truck with a “200” sign (a euphemism for "killed in action" – ed.) is driving toward me. There are very many of them in the city. This one is small, cozy. And the “200” sign on the windshield is framed with Christmas fairy lights… Most likely, it’s just ordinary lighting the driver managed to find, but it turned out so festive, playful, like in a Coca-Cola commercial...
Diary of an 18-year-old volunteer’s mother: war is profitable, it is hard to compete with it
And in the 12th year of the war, I begin to realize it as my competitor, against which I have little chance. Because it can give many people much more than just a single mother — war can give earnings, positions, power, lucrative contracts to drone manufacturers and funeral homes, income to barbershops in Izium and brothels in Kramatorsk…
Volodymyr Fesenko: The window of opportunity is only slightly ajar, russia isn’t ready to compromise on Donbas, and talks have hardened after the U.S. meeting
The intensification of international contacts around a possible ceasefire and the search for a formula for a peace agreement between Ukraine and russia is accompanied by growing diplomatic tension and a significant complication of negotiation dynamics...
War and people. What determines the future of Ukrainian Donbas
The war determines how many citizens of Ukraine will leave the region and whether they will have anywhere to return to. People determine whether they will want to live in a country where russia kills them and where their own “nationally conscious” compatriots stigmatize them…
What locals say. Residents of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk on the “surrender of Donbas”, language, faith, and corruption
Extremely negatively. The percentage of those who are actually waiting for russia here — I wouldn’t call it negligible, but such people are much fewer, percentage-wise, than those who want to live in Ukrainian Donbas. Even if the line of demarcation runs through Druzhkivka...
How the front-line Donbas lives. A first-person report
It so happened that the cities in Donbas where I had been on my recent trips — Kurakhove, Pokrovsk — are now impossible to return to. At least in the near future… I noticed this trend in the spring, while being in Sloviansk. I wouldn’t say I’m superstitious, but back then, just in case, I tossed a coin onto the soggy road...
“The military will do what they are ordered” – Donetsk-born officer on the “withdrawal of troops from Donbas” and the AFU issues
If, God forbid, that happens, it will be the maximum level of stupidity imaginable. I don’t believe that can happen. Pulling the military out of there means voluntarily giving up our territory. And what would change? The war will continue — only with unprepared positions and more of our people dying...
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