Investigation

In wartime, Ukraine’s government sold one of Europe’s largest titanium producers to an Azerbaijani businessman for a low price, sparking accusations of corruption and national betrayal. | empr.media

EMPR.media investigates how former Russia Today filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova has propelled the *Russians at War* documentary in Western venues — igniting protests, festival cancellations and debates over propaganda and war narratives. (*empr.media*)

This investigation examines Ukraine’s recent wave of government personnel rotations — is it genuine reform or political recalibration? We unpack timing, key shifts, faction interests and what’s likely to change in policy and governance.

Analysis shows U.S. expenditures tied to the Ukraine war aren’t all directly “aid” to Kyiv — many categories include troop deployments, logistics and allied support, and official totals often mix spending types.

Part 1. The latest installment of the media series by The Wall Street Journal about Ukraine’s involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines added little new information, aside from repeating some well-known names, such as the President of Ukraine and the former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The ongoing “development” of the Ukrainian connection increasingly reminds me […]

Today, Deputy Minister of Energy Oleksandr Khaylo was exposed for allegedly accepting a $500,000 bribe. The operation to uncover the bribe was conducted jointly by NABU, SAP, the SBU, and the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office. Here’s where it gets interesting. Almost simultaneously (exactly at 10:00 AM), NABU, SAP, the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the […]

38 years have passed since the day of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant tragedy. But on 2022, Ukraine and the whole world were at risk of a repeat of the disaster, because the Chornobyl nuclear power plant was under Russian occupation for more than a month. In the first days of the invasion, some monitoring stations recorded a 7-fold increase […]

On the fourth day of military operations in the Kursk region, it becomes extremely obvious that the goal of this activity is not so much the creation of a sanitary zone on the border with Ukraine as much deeper targets, so far limited by the E-38 highway. On the night of August 8-9, a Russian reinforcement convoy was destroyed near […]

Recently, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and those around him have increasingly expressed readiness to negotiate with the aggressor Russia. At the same time, the topic of gas transit through Ukraine is gaining more attention in the media. If you think these are two parallel processes, you are mistaken. In non-Euclidean geometry, parallel lines intersect. In our case, these […]

Scandal in the reconstruction of Okhmatdyt. A company worth 307 million with doubled prices was chosen as the contractor without explanation. Charitable Organization ‘Okhmatdyt Foundation’ selected LLC “Bud-Technology” as the winner of the tender for the repair of the hospital building damaged by a rocket attack in July, according to the Okhmatdyt National Children’s Specialized Hospital’s Facebook post on July […]

Nazar Prykhodko reports on a vivid continuation of the story about access to Ukrainian subsoil for Gazprom’s friends, represented by the Czech MND, a company of Karel Komarek, a friend of Russian gas chekists, who, together with the Kozytskyi family, has now started gas exploration at the Zhukivska area near Poltava.  I remind you that I have filed crime reports […]

In January 2024, a Ukrainian volunteer travels abroad for the third time using the “Shlyakh” system. He flies first class, spending three weeks in Thailand, two weeks in Dubai, including a stay at the newly opened and most expensive Atlantis The Royal, and a week in Barcelona. Finally, he visits his “friends” in the “Monaco Battalion.” He spends over a […]