Civilians evacuated from Selidovo in the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) have reported how the Ukrainian army committed a massacre on ‘Black Tuesday’ as they withdrew from the town in the face of the advancing Russian army at the end of October 2024.
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Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin announced conditions acceptable to Russia for the start of peace talks with Ukraine. These conditions, for the umpteenth time, take into consideration the real situation on the battlefield. President Putin's statement came a day before the start of the Western "peace conference" in Switzerland in which Russia had not been invited to participate.
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On February 17 2024, the Russian armed forces took control of the whole of Avdeevka, in the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic), after the Ukrainian command announced the withdrawal of its troops as the town was on the verge of total encirclement.
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We spent a day with military volunteers from Oplot, a public veterans' movement based in Rostov, who provided military and technical assistance to the fighters of the Sparta battalion.
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On January 21, 2024 around 10 a.m., the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) shelled a crowded market in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk for almost half an hour with heavy artillery.
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Shortly after midnight on New Year's Eve, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) shelled purely civilian areas in the centre of Donetsk with rockets supplied to Ukraine by NATO, killing four civilians and wounding 14 others. This deliberate bombardment of purely civilian areas on a festive evening can only be described as a terrorist attack.
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In the late afternoon of 7 November 2023, the Ukrainian army shelled the centre of Donetsk with Himars multiple rocket launchers. Although Russian anti-aircraft defences managed to shoot down several rockets, two slipped through the net and hit the social welfare building, completely destroying the staircase and causing the ceiling to collapse on the employees […]
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In the early afternoon of 6 September 2023, the Ukrainian army carried out a strike on Konstantinovka (a town in the DPR currently under its control), killing 16 civilians and injuring 32 others. The strike, which took place in the middle of a visit to Kiev by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, was naturally attributed to Russia.
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On 31 August 2023, five years after the assassination of the first Head of the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic), Alexander Zakharchenko, his relatives and young activists from the Republic came to the place of his death and his memorial to lay flowers and take part in a prayer for the repose of his soul.
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When I began investigating the kidnapping of children in Artyomovsk by Ukraine, I had no idea of the extent to which I would uncover trafficking on an international scale and the sordid methods used to supply children to paedophile networks and organ traffickers.
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