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Debaltseve police chief Yevhen Yukhanov was killed by militants who attempted to seize the town police station, head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s department in Donetsk region Viacheslav Abrosk
Feb. 11, 2015
A sleepy suburb near Kramatorsk airfield was rocked by multiple explosions as separatist rockets hammered the city today, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 31, including five children.
Feb. 10, 2015
The Ukrainian army is pushing the militants away from territories from where they may bomb residential areas and is regaining its positions set by the Minsk agreements, Kyiv said.
Feb. 10, 2015
Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, famed for its near-suicidal bravery and ultra-nationalist views, is spearheading a Ukrainian counter-offensive along the country’s Black Sea coast today.
Feb. 10, 2015
Ukraine’s Azov regiment announced on its VKontakte page that on Feb. 10 morning its servicemen launched an offensive toward the town of Novoazovsk in the Donetsk region.
Feb. 10, 2015
The arrest of an Ivano-Frankivsk journalist whose campaign against general mobilization has highlighted the problems that Ukraine has been having in getting its men to fight in the war against Russia.
Feb. 9, 2015
ARTYOMOVSK, Ukraine – Vladimir stands smoking a cigarette outside a large Soviet-era dormitory in the wine-making city of Artyomovsk. The building is now home to him, his family and some 300 other peo
Feb. 6, 2015
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine – Kremlin-backed separatists set about reducing the Ukrainian-held Debaltseve to rubble on Feb. 3, despite a promised cease-fire and the presence of several thousand civilians in t
Feb. 3, 2015
The Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant, a business unit of the Centerenergo power generating company, has been unable to receive coal for eight days, Ukrainian First Deputy Energy and Coal Industry Minist
Feb. 3, 2015
ARTYOMOVSK, Ukraine — A flight of five of Hind Mi-24 attack helicopters churned through the afternoon sky on Feb 2, speeding low over the road into Artyomovsk’s center as Ukraine’s army sent a huge co
Feb. 2, 2015
The rescuers drive shabby buses that are often shelled. They take directions by text messages directing them to bomb shelters. They make stops lasting only a few minutes and drive away as fast as poss
Feb. 2, 2015
People
Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer and frontman of Skryabin pop band, who is better known as “Kuzma,” died in a
car accident in the morning of Feb. 2.
Feb. 2, 2015
KARLIVKA, Ukraine – Night was falling when Yura started back to base, having dropped off essential supplies to Ukrainian units holed up in the bullet-riddled town of Pisky. As he weaved his car betwee
Feb. 1, 2015
Seven civilians were killed in shelling in Donbas on Feb. 1 as of the day’s afternoon. A 66-year old woman was killed by a shell in her house in a village in Artiomovsky district of Donetsk Oblast. Si
Feb. 1, 2015
Twelve people, presumably civilians, were killed in Debaltseve as the forces of separatists shell the city.
Jan. 31, 2015
DEBALTSEVE, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces acknowledged they had ceded control of the village of Vuhlehirsk to Kremlin-backed forces on Jan. 30, giving separatist fighters a vital foothold west of Debalts
Jan. 30, 2015