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Tourist season 2025 in occupied Crimea: queues, internet shutdown, high prices, and fear of attacks
The occupation authorities are calling the 2025 holiday season the best in five years. The “Ministry of Resorts of Crimea” reported that from the beginning of the year to July 31, the peninsula received 3.74 million vacationers, which is 14% more than in the same period of 2024...
Unstable Trump. Witkoff, tariffs, and the trend toward freezing the war for 8–10 months
Recent Witkoff’s visit to putin and the subsequent statements from Washington did not answer the main question – what will happen on August 8, after the deadline set by Trump for moscow to make a “deal” with Ukraine?
Surviving without water: How the occupiers drove Donetsk to a humanitarian catastrophe
In four hours, people must gather enough for three days, fill every possible container, wash themselves, do laundry. Residents call this torture, because water is often absent or disappears an hour after it starts...
New water supply schedule: "DNR" residents nostalgically recall the times when it was given every other day. Overview of media in occupied Donbas
Last week, local information resources were diligently preparing their readers and viewers for a further worsening of the tap water shortage problem. Local authorities once again “reminded” that the occupied Donbas was left without water due to a water blockade, the beginning of which coincided with the open invasion of Ukraine by russian troops, but which, allegedly, was arranged by Kyiv...
"Trump’s 50 days". Political analyst Ihor Chalenko explains what lies behind Washington’s new strategy
Trump realized: if he continues pursuing a policy of appeasing putin, it won’t bring any results. That’s why we’re now seeing tactical changes. I don’t believe these are strategic shifts. Because again, Trump operates in very short-term timeframes. This is even supported by his own statements — for example, about “50 days”, and then “we’ll see if putin agrees to negotiations or not”...
Head of the Luhansk Oblast State Administration Oleksii Kharchenko: on the (im)possibility of working with Luhansk tax offices, the (in)expediency of administration operations, and housing for IDPs
Right now, there’s a narrative about 4.5 million IDPs existing. Of course, it’s impossible – for any country in the world – to provide housing to 4.5 million of its citizens. We can only begin solving this problem with the state when we understand the real number of IDPs, not the declared one, and the real need for service housing...
"Next to them, we are a dying species". Luhansk journal
There are a lot of non-russians. We’re not used to that. They work until the very end, until it gets dark. Ours don’t, not like that — our people take care of themselves. But these ones are quick, tireless. They can be on their feet for 12 hours, smiling. They need to feed their family, pay rent, secure a place here...
Diary of an 18-year-old volunteer’s mother: relationships between “locals and military” and “women and men”
Lately, there’s been this vile trend in social media of people saying that some girls/women supposedly marry young assault soldiers up to three times: one gets buried, she collects the payout, marries the second… and so on — till the end of time...
"Putin wants Ukraine to initiate a capitulation scenario itself" — Kostiantyn Matviienko on the imitation of negotiations
In fact, no one in the world right now is putting pressure on him with demands to at least call a ceasefire and stop the killing of Ukrainians, so he’s trying to push this issue off the agenda...
Roman Svitan: Russia is hastily forming new reserves to intensify the offensive by the end of summer
Law enforcement officers must be brought into service. There are simply no other options. We can't buy North Korean soldiers. But we have our own. Hundreds of thousands of law enforcement and security personnel within the country who are trained at least for defensive actions. They don’t need to go on the offensive, just to hold the line. They know how to do that...
Diary of an 18-year-old volunteer’s mother: wound, sister, billboards with the fallen
Mom, people are dying because of them! At our training base, a junkie was working in the kitchen. That’s disgusting! You come back from a forced march, and someone like that is serving you soup! It’s disgusting! He’s taking a spot that could go to a normal, decent person with a disability!
The kremlin is playing a "Minsk-3" game: Serhiy Harmash on the Istanbul negotiations, memorandums, and putin’s tactics
It can be said that the negotiations are not being conducted for results, but rather for the sake of one spectator sitting in the Oval Office. Both sides are interested in his favor, and each is trying to gain certain tactical preferences — whether it be prisoner exchanges or informational and political bonuses.
Diary of an 18-year-old volunteer’s mother: Baibak is “200”. I can’t sleep
The instructors told us before deployment not to get too attached to each other, ‘cause many of us will be ‘200’, maybe all...
“No grounds for peace exist. And even putin is showing that”: military expert Serhii Hrabskyi on the situation at the front, negotiations, and mobilization
So all this talk about an imminent ceasefire is meaningless. Both putin through his actions and Ukraine through its resistance show that the situation is not yet ripe for any negotiations. Moreover for us, peace negotiations, as practice shows, can be deadly dangerous, because putin uses any pause in the war to his advantage...
Putin is trying to seize the initiative and calls for negotiations in Istanbul: what’s behind it
What’s behind putin’s “Istanbul initiative”, why the russian dictator chose Turkey specifically, and whether there are real grounds for a peace process now...
Economic reservation from mobilization: case closed?
In recent months, the topic of economic reservation from mobilization has practically faded away. While last year members of parliament, government officials, and even the president discussed possible parameters and details, today this topic is barely mentioned...
Trump’s plan to end the war: chances of implementation and next steps
Trump needs a success in this area, and he will work on it. He understands that pressuring Ukraine is useless since neither the government nor society responds to or acknowledges his pressure. So maybe he’ll start putting pressure on russia...
Everything is “ownerless” and everything is mine: A review of media from occupied Donbas
Last week, media in the occupied Donbas explained how to carve up property stolen from Ukrainians and kept assuring locals that, once the choicest assets are turned into “federal” property, life will finally get better… It suddenly turned out that the non‑government‑controlled parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts contain huge amounts of “ownerless” real estate: industrial plants, farmland, shopping malls…
The russian myth of the "revival of Donbas". Construction boom or construction noise
The “liberation” of Donbas, which russian propaganda has tirelessly repeated since February 2022, turned into total destruction of everything the occupier set foot on. No surprise that amid the bombed-out Ukrainian towns and villages, a myth had to be quickly implanted in the public consciousness: “russians don’t abandon their own and everything will be rebuilt better than before”...
The most important thing is not to compare! Luhansk journal
The locals are completely bewildered. How were they allowed to return? It's not even about them, it's about us. How are we supposed to work with them and pretend everything is normal?
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