Donbass

*Refugees from Artyomovsk, April 2023.

Bakhmut est tombée. Artyomovsk (nom russe/soviétique de la ville) a été libérée. C'est ce qu'a annoncé aujourd'hui le chef titulaire des forces Wagner, Evgeny Prigozhin, dans une vidéo publiée sur Telegram. Wagner revendique la prise totale de Bakhmout, Kyiv parle de situation "critique" Source : DÉCLARATION DU CHEF DE WAGNER PMC SUR LA CAPTURE DE BAKHMUT (VIDÉO, SOUS-TITRES ANGLAIS, TEXTE) (...)

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Editor’s and Translator’s Notes: I continue to bring you my translations of the witty and brilliant slain Ukrainian author, Oles Buzina (1969-2015). His was one of the first prominent political assassinations after the 2014 regime change in that country. This article comes from the author’s series, “Stories from Oles Buzina,” in which he mainly covers … Continue reading From Ukraine to The Ruin

May 11, 2023, RT.com -Eva Karene Bartlett Heavy Ukrainian shelling of central Donetsk on April 28 killed nine civilians – including an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother – and injured at least 16 more. The victims were burned alive when the minibus they were in was hit by a shell. The attack also targeted a major hospital, apartment buildings, houses, parks, streets, and sidewalks.

What follows is a full transcript of the speech made by Russian President Vladimir V. Putin commemorating the seventy-eighth anniversary of the surrender of Germany to the Allied forces on May 8 / 9, 1945. A bit of trivia: Why does Russia celebrate Victory in Europe (V-E) Day on May 9th, when the rest of […]

Sputnik – 06.05.2023 Russian investigators have established that over 126,000 residents of the Donbass region became victims of the crimes committed by Kiev since 2014, with the damage to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics surpassing 228 billion rubles ($2.9 billion), the head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said. “More than 9,500 civilians […]

March 28, 2023, RT.com -by Eva Karene Bartlett Since Ukraine dropped thousands of mines on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in July, 104 people have fallen victim to the internationally-banned PFM-1 ‘petal’ (otherwise known as ‘butterfly’) devices. Nine of them are children. Of which three died.

The new START treaty officially called the Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, was signed by Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev and American President Barack Obama in April 2010 in Prague. This nuclear arms reduction agreement entered into force, after being ratified, a year later. In fact, this agreement is the … Continue reading A Brief History of Russia-U.S.

I spoke with Canadian researcher and writer, Tamara Lorincz, about Canada’s militaristic foreign and defence policies, Canada’s belligerent NATO role in bombing sovereign nations, Canada’s role in fomenting the Maidan protests which preceded the (2014) illegal coup in Ukraine, and, among other things, Canada’s support to Ukraine’s war on the Donbass. Tamara has a Masters… Read More Tamara Lorincz: Canada’s Support For Ukraine’s War on the Donbass & Canada’s Anti-Russia Policies

In 2014, Kiev banned the Russian-made mini-series The White Guard (2012) based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1925 novel for “demonstrating disregard for the Ukrainian language, people, and statehood.” This ban turned out to be one of many after the Maidan that year in an attempt to root out the Russian language and culture in the region … Continue reading The 1918 Russian Civil War and the 21st-century Conflict in Ukraine