• Ukrainian authorities crackdown on Donbas blockaders sparking protests across the country

    The trade blockade Headquarters redoubt at the Kryvyi Torets railway station in the Shcherbynivka locality of the Donetsk region was captured by members of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Rapid Operational Response Unit (KORD) of the National Police on March 13. The blockade Headquarters posted about this on its Facebook page. [The blockade of the uncontrolled Donbas territories was started by war veterans in Eastern Ukraine at the end of January 2017, with the demand for …

  • Media: Turkish ship ran aground on the Crimean Peninsula

    On the morning of March 12th, the Turkish dry cargo ship, River Eregli, ran aground near the coast in Alupka. The vessel was sailing under the flag of Micronesia, as reported by the monitoring group of the Maidan of Foreign Affairs and BSNews.

    "The incident occurred in quiet weather. This suggests that the vessel's engine stopped working. However, another option is possible – that the dry cargo ship has not had its AIS transmitter on since the end of November 2016. The last known location of …

  • The Supreme Council of Justice allowed for Ukrainian judge to be arrested

    The Supreme Council of Justice granted the request of the General Prosecutor’s Office to detain a judge from the Suvorov District Court of Odessa city, Konstantin Bobovsky, Hromadske reported. The Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office suspects him of extorting bribes from defendants in a case to which he is assigned.

    The Prosecutor’s Office believes that the judge can exert pressure on witnesses and use his contacts in law enforcement agencies in order to avoid justice. In addition, they …

  • Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine: Russia gave a bogus address for Yanukovych

    The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office gave the Ukrainian prosecutor a bogus residential address for former president Viktor Yanukovych as stated by Ruslan Kravchenko, Prosecutor of the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine (PGO), while on air with 112 Ukraine TV Channel.

    “The Russian Prosecutor’s General Office gave us a bogus residential address for the suspected individual, Yanukovych,” he said.

    “After that we sent requests to all the possible residential addresses and whereabouts …

  • One of the founders of the DPR, Vladimir Makovich, died

    One of the founders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Vladimir Makovich, has died in Donetsk, as was reported on his Facebook page by the former Deputy Foreign Minister of the DPR, Boris Borisov.

    Interfax cited the head of the News Front agency, Konstantin Knyrik, in reporting that the cause of death was a heart attack.

    In April 2014, Makovich read the declaration on the statehood of the independent republic. In July of the same year he served as a speaker of the Supreme …