Under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, another 32 vessels have been identified as those that violated the order of entry to and […]
22.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
One Ukrainian serviceman was captured by Russian occupation forces in the Donbas near Joint Forces Operation. The Joint Forces Operation Headquarters reported this on its Facebook page. "On 17 December 2020, a serviceman's absence was fixed […]
21.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Russia politicises any social, humanitarian and economic issues and, correspondingly, slows down the coping with various problems. The head of the Ukrainian delegation in the Tripartite Contact Group Leonid Kravchuk stated this. He noted that […]
21.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Over the past year and a half, the number of articles about Ukraine in Crimean media outlets has decreased threefold, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI). The study focused […]
21.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
In 2020, the military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) exposed three spies, 15 enemy agents, 40 members of illegal armed groups and prevented a series of terrorist attacks in the Joint Forces […]
21.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Conclusively, the complicated and unpredictable 2020 is almost over. The 2021 political season will start in a complex environment. In Russia, the non-multifaceted policy, reliance on individual clans' business interests and the systemic lack of […]
18.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 17 December, militants violated the ceasefire in Donbas eight times, provoking Ukraine's defenders throughout the day. The enemy used prohibited heavy weapons. As a result, a Ukrainian defender was wounded by a sniper’s bullet, […]
18.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Following the resolution against the Russian-occupied Crimea, the Black and Azov Seas militarisation, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new version of the "Human Rights Situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, […]
17.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Not only Armenians but also Russian "peacekeepers" were captured by Azerbaijan troops in the Hadrut district of unrecognised Nagorny-Karabakh. The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that. "According to our information, Russian 'peacekeepers' were […]
17.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The reform of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) should take into account hybrid threats coming from the Russian Federation and provide the Service with additional mechanisms to counter them, SBU’s Deputy Chief for Reform […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
As of the end of November, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) recorded 2,492 ceasefire violations in Donbas, including 988 explosions and 1,369 bursts and shots. Despite the agreement reached at the Trilateral […]
16.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine concluded its first direct foreign economic agreements on military goods, having signed the contracts on technology transfer, production of corvettes, and combat UAVs for the needs of the Armed […]
15.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine during its meeting on Tuesday, 15 December, extended the law on special procedure for local self-government in certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions for one year. Lawmakers extended […]
15.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute, the International Charitable Foundation ISOLATION and journalist, writer and former political prisoner Stanislav Aseyev, presented the project "Isolyatsia: must speak." The presentation […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The “Masandra” winery in the Russian-occupied Crimea was purchased by the company "Southern Project." The sale of "Masandra" was announced by Russian media referring to data on the official portal for posting information about the […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives have approved the National Defence Authorisation Act for the Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA 2021). The document provides for the allocation of $250 million in security assistance […]
14.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
A level of cyber threats to Ukraine's information systems has increased as the leading U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye was attacked, the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC) reports with reference to the National […]
13.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has completed a preliminary investigation into the situation in Ukraine, which concerns war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern Ukraine and the occupied Crimea. This piece […]
12.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
A Russian court has authorised the arrest in absentia of Ukraine’s National Guard serviceman Vitaliy Markiv for a murder of which he was acquitted by an Italian court, Russia's Interfax news agency reports with reference […]
11.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine has faced particular brutality and disrespect for human rights. Since the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation in 2014, human rights violations have become systemic and widespread there. "The human rights […]
11.12.2020 • Bohdan Marusyak
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