• Ukrainian police detained three former separatists of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic

    On the 15th of January, Ukrainian police in the Donetsk region reported that they have detained three former separatists of the Donetsk People’s Republic. One of them is a 45-year-old resident of the Kostiantynivka region, who was fighting in an industrial area in Avdiivka.

    This man joined the Donetsk People’s Republic in November 2014 in Donetsk. He was first instructed to guard the Vostok battalion’s base, but shortly after he was deployed to Avdiivka. The man received a concussion during …

  • Ukrainian official predicts that the liberation of the Donbas will begin in the fall

    The Deputy Minister for the temporarily occupied territories and internally displaced people, George Tuka, stated on Espreso.TV that the liberation of the occupied territories of the Donbas from separatists and Russian servicemen will start in autumn 2017, Ukrinform reported.

    Tuka noted that the issue of the liberation of the Crimea and the Donbas from Russian occupation should be separated from each other because, according to him, it will take much more time to return the annexed peninsula. …

  • Two Russian women asked for refugee status in Ukraine

    On the morning of January 15, two Russian women applied for refugee status in Ukraine at Hoptivka international automobile checkpoint in Kharkiv region, the press service of the State Border Service reports.

    "While passing through border control, a 47-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter, both citizens of Russia who both came from the neighboring country on foot with a small child, applied to the border guards of the Kharkiv detachment for refugee status," the message read.

    During …

  • Ukrainian analogue to Russian Armata tank was patented

    A competitor to the Russian Armata tank, the Ukrainian Tirex tank, was patented in Ukraine. A patent for the development was published on the website of National Industrial Portal.

    Similar to the Armata, the Tirex will be equipped with an armored capsule with seats for three crew members, as well as an uninhabited tower. The tank will be equipped with 125-millimeter guns with a remotely controlled automatic loading mechanism and machine guns, as well as Nizh and Duplet explosive reactive armor. …

  • Ukrainian Information Policy Ministry is developing an information reintegration strategy for the Crimea

    On January 13th, the First Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine, Emine Dzheppar, stated at a press conference in Kyiv that the Ukrainian Information Policy Ministry is developing an information reintegration strategy for the Crimea which is scheduled to be presented in late March.

    According to the Information Policy Ministry’s idea, the document should become an action plan for the Ukrainian Government regarding the issue of the Crimea. If this happens, each Ukrainian Ministry will …