The Ukrainian army is locked in a conflict with breakaway fighters in Donetsk and Lugansk that erupted after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014

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

Russian authorities have given out the first passports to residents of Ukraine's separatist regions, shrugging off international criticism. Kyiv said it would never recognize documents issued by the "aggressor country"

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

Several autonomous subversive and terrorist units have been deployed in Ukraine from the Russian Federation and the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" since the beginning of 2017

There are political outcasts in Italy, who are obviously ready to further step up provocations in favor of Moscow supervisors

He also tried to hire local residents for participation in illegal armed formations in Donbas

Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding elections considered by Kyiv and the West “illegal” and a “mockery”

This latest incident comes about a month after Donetsk separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko was assassinated by a bomb blast at this cafe in Donetsk

Ruslan Petrenko (not his real name) from a small town near Donetsk was a pro-Ukrainian activist. This got him in trouble: he was taken hostage by the “DNR” terrorists and spent more than a month in captivity

On June 2, the local “self-defence” kidnapped editor and journalist Serhiy Mokrushyn and director Vladlen Melnykov, both from the Center of Journalist Investigation, in Simferopol, Crimea