Russia today called on the United Nations and the Red Cross to investigate the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners held by pro-Russian separatists, as Ukraine’s president ordered the evacuation of residents of Donetsk, in the country’s east. President Volodymyr Zelensky said hundreds of thousands of people remain at risk amid heavy fighting in the […]
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Ukraine requests list of prisoners killed in Donetsk prison
Ukraine’s Coordinating Center for the Handling of Prisoner of War Issues has demanded that Moscow provide a list of prisoners of war killed and wounded in the explosion that occurred Thursday night in Olenevka, Donetsk. The center is also seeking to recover the bodies of the dead and has called on the Red Cross and […]
Zelensky: Bombing of Donetsk prison ‘willful Russian war crime’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the bombing of a prison in the eastern part of his country, which killed “more than 50” prisoners of war, a “deliberate Russian war crime”. “I received information today about the attack by the occupation forces on Olenivka (where the prison is located), in the Donetsk region. This is […]
Ukraine: Four civilians killed by shelling by Ukrainian forces, Donetsk separatists say
Four civilians have been killed by shelling by Ukrainian forces in the past 24 hours, Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, said today. According to a message posted on the separatists’ official Telegram account, 4 people were killed and 11 others injured between 08:00 local time yesterday, Wednesday, and 08:00 today. Reuters was unable to […]
North Korea is discussing possible recognition of Donetsk’s independence
The “foreign minister” of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” claimed today that the death penalty in force in that region is not related to its bid for international recognition. Two Britons and a Moroccan have been sentenced to death by a Donetsk court on charges of fighting as mercenaries alongside Ukrainian forces. When asked if […]
Russia: Donetsk has opened an ’embassy’ in Moscow
The separatist region of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, today opened an “embassy” in Moscow, while denouncing the worsening situation on the front, where fighting continues fiercely. “In recent days the situation has deteriorated drastically,” said Natalya Nikanorova, the “foreign minister” of the self-proclaimed “People’s Republic” of Donetsk. “We are in no rush,” he added, when […]
Ukraine: Seven civilians dead, two injured in Donetsk region
At least 7 civilians were killed and two others were injured today by Russian strikes in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine, the governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kirilenko, announced today. “The Russians killed 7 civilians,” three in the city of Toretsk, two in Avdiivka, one in Kotema and one in Siversk, the Ukrainian official said […]
Ukraine: Pro-Russian Donetsk separatists seize and ‘nationalize’ two ships in Mariupol
Pro-Russian separatists seized two foreign-flagged ships in the port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, declaring they were now “state property”. These are the first such actions against commercial shipping, according to the letters obtained by Reuters. Mariupol, in the southeastern tip of Ukraine, came under Russian and separatist control in May after a months-long siege. […]
Ukraine: Pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk to implement death penalty from 2025
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, where two Britons and a Moroccan have been sentenced to death, say the death penalty will come into effect from 2025 under the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic’s (DPR) updated criminal code. The DRC has had the death penalty in its legislation since 2014, but until now there are no laws […]
Reuters: The change in tactics on the part of Russia behind the territorial gains in Donbas
It took weeks of fierce fighting, countless casualties and relentless bombing to get the exhausted Ukrainian defenders of Sheverodonetsk ordered to evacuate its burning ruins. “It does not make sense to stay in positions that have been disbanded for many months just to stay there,” Serhiy Gaidai, the governor of the wider region, told Ukrainian […]