Opinion
''The war will not end until the last soldier killed in the war has been buried.'' The latest opinion from Ukraine about current state of deal by Olha Bohomolets - Head of the Parliamentary Commission on Health and Advisor to the President on Humanitarian Affairs for lb.ua.
German historians are researching the real history of Ukraine. Natalia Pysanska for radiosvoboda.org.
They started their military service with the 95th Brigade Military Assault Troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They became the core of the 90th Airmobile Battalion of the 81st Brigade, the first brigade to be created in the twenty-plus years of Ukraine's independence.
After the collapse of the USSR Russia held a monopoly over the right to be called the victor over Nazism. Now is the time to tell the world the truth. Natalia Pysanska for radiosvoboda.org.
Perhaps before long every "citizen of the DNR" will be forced to carry a collection of quotes from Big Brother at all times? A letter from occupied Donetsk, conflict zone in eastern Ukraine by Anton Averchenko, engineer working in a defense plant, city of Donetsk for radiosvoboda.org.
To-the-point and frank-wrap-up speech of David Kramer, Senior Director for Human Rights & Democracy with the McCain Institute on the closing day of Kyiv Security Forum enjoyed full attention of the audience. EMPR caught up with Mr. Kramer on the margins of forum to hear his grounded take on what the U.S. should be doing and does not currently do […]
A letter from occupied Donetsk, conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, about life so-called Donetsk People Republic (DPR), new orders and terrible reality for the ordinary citizens. By Mykola Mykolaienko, Engineer from Horlivka for radiosvoboda.org.
A group of anonymous Ukrainian activists staged a "vacation" inside the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. At the opening of the largest forum of contemporary art in the world, the pavilion occupied by the Russian Federation was invaded by people wearing military uniforms with a badge that said "on vacation."
Today the world faces a deeply corrupt Russian state where state control of the media is almost total, where control of major financial and resource assets resides almost exclusively close 'friends' many of whom have have KGB or St Petersburg connections (or both) going some way back, where increasingly neo nationalism is encouraged by the State up to a form of cult worship of the new 'Great Leader', a state which is not concerned with any former international agreements it's predecessors may have the signed - the Budapest Memorandum, Helsinki Accords and even the United Nations founding charter are clearly regarded as non binding. A Russian state increasingly is hurtling back to it's past. So tell me: was the Cold War won?
In times of Russian aggression in Ukraine the southern city of Mariupol has lived through occupation, liberation and artillery attack that claimed dozens of civilian lives. EMPR looks back at the chronicles of Russian aggression in Mariupol compiled by Vadym Dzhuvaga.
For about three months, transit camp for temporary shelter for IDPs from the ATO zone has been operating in Kharkiv. Despite the fact that the horrors of the war have been left behind, people are facing new challenges. Read the exclusive EMPR report to learn about the life after the war and the uncertain future of internally displaced persons.
There is a battle coming in Ukraine and anyone that does not understand this either in Washington, London, Paris, Berlin or Kyiv now is too late already. Why is there a battle coming? Because A. either the Russian proxy army will advance or B. the Ukrainian forces will advance to regain the sovereign territory of Ukraine.