Ukraine has also recalled Russia must implement its obligations under the Minsk Agreements

Stanislav Aseyev, journalist and contributor to The Ukrainian Week, spent two years as hostage to the “DNR” militants. In his interview, he shares why he decided to stay in the occupied part of the Donbas, how he ended up in the “basement” and how he started writing a book in jail

The Presidential Office states that the exchange of held persons has ended, and in its course Ukraine returned 20 citizens from the occupied territories

Despite many official pronouncements, industry in the liberated Donbas is in its death throes

In exceptional cases, a person may be given permission to cross the line in critical life circumstances, with supporting documents for such circumstances

What is it that voters in free Donbas like about Zelenskiy?

The self-proclaimed republics in occupied Donbas are changing their rhetoric about returning to Ukraine and are more actively imposing the attributes of a statelet...

The strategic winners and losers at Normandy

The Zelenskiy team is slowly adapting to the frozen conflict in occupied Donbas

New Year in occupied Donbas

The economic crisis in occupied Donbas is getting worse. Marauding seems to be the rule of the day

How are residents of ORDiLO being polled for their opinions and how reliable are the results?

What those “dead souls” are hiding in occupied Donbas

How attitudes towards the country’s course and the war in the Donbas have changed among Ukrainians in the last five years

What criteria should be used to evaluate strategies for the reintegration of the Donbas

A court hearing in Poland on whether to extradite a Ukrainian veteran of the ongoing Donbas conflict and member of a Ukrainian nationalist group is expected to begin by Nov. 12

Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed rebels began withdrawing from a village in the disputed Donbas region on Saturday, one of a series of measures that could pave the way for a summit between Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany

The foreign minister expressed strong support for Ukraine in finding a solution to the military conflict through the Minsk agreements

OSCE monitors used drones to verify the disengagement

A representative of the Office of the President says the weapons were seized by the police

What the supporters of DNR and LNR feared most, the closure of the mines, was accomplished by their terrorist leadership, not by the “junta” in Kyiv

Hundreds of Ukrainians have protested after President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had backed an agreement that would bring elections to territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists.

U.S. special envoy to Ukraine resigns a day after whistleblower complaint was released

Open supporters of integration with Russia are being persecuted on the occupied Donbas

The commander of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces on the feasibility of holding a military parade on Independence Day of Ukraine and the specifics of the war in Donbas

The Ukrainian authorities would like to hold local elections simultaneously across the entire Ukrainian territory, including the temporary occupied areas

82 mm mines hit Novotoshkivske and Mayorske

Since midnight, Russian mercenaries have already opened fire once

How the 2019 elections were different from all the previous ones in the Donbas

How Estonia solves the problems of its “Donbas”

The Ukrainian Week talked with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations on prospects for the release of Ukrainian prisoners, the specifics of negotiations with the Russia and options for resolving the conflict in the Donbas

Four Ukrainian fighters lost their lives in an obnoxious attack on the position near Pavlopol, Donetsk region on August 6

What’s behind the flashmob about “Accept Donbas’s choice”?

What the new government’s initiatives to lift the blockade from the occupied Donbas actually mean

Kyiv says four Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives in the latest clashes with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east

The press center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported

Initiatives to return to Ukraine as autonomy have intensified in the occupied Donbas

Russian occupants attacked positions of Ukraine's government troops 15 times

The "grey zone" has shifted toward the village of Trudivske

Russian-led forces have continued to violate the ceasefire in Donbas since midnight until 12.00 on Tuesday

Ukraine says fresh clashes with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east have claimed the lives of two of its soldiers, raising to six the number of Ukrainian troops reported killed this week

The proposal will be considered at the next TCG meeting in Minsk

Many locals who moved out of the occupied territories never return to challenge "court" decisions in fear of prosecution

One occupier was killed and another five were wounded on Wednesday, intelligence reports say

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko stated this

Who’s talking to the world on behalf of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts and what they are saying

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday that makes it easier for those living in eastern Ukraine's separatist territories to access a Russian passport

Why economic decline of the liberated parts of the Donbas is dangerous

When Russian-backed separatists began their offensive in eastern Ukraine in spring 2014, the city of Sloviansk was the first one they took over. After several months, it was liberated, but it keeps its memory as the place where Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine, which killed over 13,000 people, started

What will Ukraine rely on after any result of the election?

How Donbas elected president after almost a decade break

The Donbas and especially the Luhansk Oblast have remained to be the domain of the pro-Russian forces, although the electoral map of the region has changed significantly

Russia-led forces mounted 12 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, in the past day, no Ukrainian casualties have been reported, the press center of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) has said

The detainee was charged with terrorism

A Ukrainian soldier was injured as a result of the shelling

The female soldier, Yana Chernova, had "no chance of surviving in this hell," according to the Donbas Battalion commander

Economic decline is destroying occupied Donbas even faster than the armed conflict at this point

How the war has changed the cultural landscape of the Donbas

Serhiy Zakharov is an artist from Donetsk known for his plywood caricatures of “Novorossia” leaders installed on the city streets in 2014. The installations resulted in his captivity in Donetsk that year. In his interview with The Ukrainian Week, Serhiy speaks about his complex relations with his city and the attitudes of the creative crowd to politicians

Two invaders were killed and another four were injured in the past day, intelligence reports say

How children in occupied Donbas are being worked on psychologically and informationally

What’s causing the socio-economic situation in occupied Donbas to get worse?

The Azov was withdrawn from Mariupol in the summer of 2016

Petrenko informed the German side about the security situation

During the Discussion Club “Open World” organised by Open Ukraine Foundation The Ukrainian Week talks with the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ukraine on the conflict in Syria, the free trade between our countries and business in the conditions of uncertain security situation

What national unity hinges on and what, besides Russia, threatens Ukraine

What to expect from “elections” in Donetsk and Luhansk

While defending its interests, the soviet coal industry helped the Soviet Union collapse

Could ukrainization have prevented the current occupation of the East of Ukraine?

The Ukrainian Week discussed the first results of the Joint Forces Operation in the Donbas with its commander, Lieutenant-General Serhiy Nayev.

He has been a volunteer since 2014

Russian propaganda systemically lowers the number of officially recognized casualties on the part of Russian occupation forces in eastern Ukraine's warzone

Ukraine has selected Serhey Loznitsa's Donbas, a drama centered on an ongoing military conflict in East Ukraine, for the best foreign-language film Oscar race.

The opportunity to travel to neighboring countries without hindrance has had an effect people in the regions of Ukraine most distant from Europe – despite the war, they have begun to travel actively. The Ukrainian Week talked to Stanislav Chernohor, experienced traveller and head of the Community Development Foundation in Kramatorsk.

How to solve one of the country's most difficult problems and why the state is stubbornly unwilling to do so

How to overcome Russian cultural domination

At the end of April, the Ministry of Information Policy published results of polls from Donetsk Oblast. According to organizers, they were conducted on both sides of the conflict line

French political analyst Nicolas Tenzer about the diplomatic crisis between the West and Russia, the state of Franco-Russian relations, and the prospects for reviving negotiations in the Normandy format

An update from the occupied parts of the Donbas: monuments to Russian volunteers, shutdown of mobile connection, new arrests of ministers

Important aspects of the new Deoccupation Law

Who is fighting against Ukrainian military in Donbas

Trends in Donbas given the whirlwind of socio-economic changes and the background of permanent conflict on the front

How Ukraine’s security, defence and the capability to counter hybrid aggression changed in 2017

Deputy Chief of Staff of NATO’s Military Partnerships Directorate about the role of the Ukrainian military in the Alliance’s operations, and the interest of Western military in Ukraine’s Anti-Terrorist Operation and Russia’s Zapad 2017 exercise

What kind of model is needed for the de-occupation of ORDiLO?

The new law on the reintegration of the occupied parts of the Donbas qualifies them as such and names Russia as the occupier. Yet, it does not launch the process of deoccupation or change the mechanism envisaged in the Minsk Agreement

Founded this fall, Donetsk oligarch Serhiy Taruta’s Osnova or Foundation party has already started campaigning although the next Verkhovna Rada election is two years away

How the local women of Bakhmut change their region at home and perception of it elsewhere in Ukraine

The Ukrainian Week spoke to representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate at the Ministry of Defence about his department's work, Russian military in Ukraine and the threats it is facing

Although there’s been a sharp reduction in trade and commercial ties with Russia and in Ukraine’s dependence on its neighbor, some key sectors still show levels of interaction that pose a threat to national security

How life has changed in three years in occupied and liberated Donbas

What might cause the “Russian Spring” to make a comeback in Ukraine and where might this happen?

What prevented Kremlin curators from realising the "Crimean scenario" in most regions of South-Eastern Ukraine?

Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine spoke to The Ukrainian Week about current priorities and obstacles faced by the SMM in its work on the ground

How trading with ORDiLO became a handy loophole from paying taxes

Where the claims in favor of continuing coal trade with the occupied parts of Donbas are misleading

The blockade of the occupied parts of the Donbas is a consequence of the irresponsible actions of the top leadership in Ukraine and their imitation war against Russia. The legal side of this confrontation could have a decisive impact

Despite the war and partial occupation of the Donbas, Rinat Akhmetov has preserved his business empire and is increasing output

Maintaining socio-economic ties to the occupied territories of Donbas is of dubious value to Ukraine, but makes life a lot easier for the terrorists running them

What the January Cabinet of Ministers' decree on the occupied territory means for Ukraine and Russia