Articles — OstroV

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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"

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

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

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

"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"...