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Crimea was not a gift, it cost Ukrainians USD 105bn at the time – Kravchuk
18.06.2021
The price for the inclusion of the Crimean Peninsula in the Ukrainian SSR amounted to USD 105bn. Ukraine did not want to accept the “gift”, but the central government of the USSR left us no choice, the first president of Ukraine after the Soviet Union Leonid Kravchuk said in an interview with Ramina Eshakzai.Kravchuk says that only people who have not read historical documents can call the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR a “gift.” According to him, the ...kremlin propaganda tries to justify another escalation
09.04.2021
In a manner typical for hybrid warfare, the recent escalation of russian aggression in eastern Ukraine was preceded and is accompanied by a number of information operations. Having drawn up the military – Ukrainian General Staff of the Armed Forces estimates that 28 russian tactical battalion groups currently at the border will be accompanied by 25 more military units – and refusing to restore ceasefire on April 1, the kremlin actively blames Kyiv, uacrisis.org reported.The ongoing campaign that lasts ...SBU arrested fake ‘Ukrainian fascist’ and charged with working for russia
09.03.2021
Ukraine’s SBU This new development comes 13 months after Kovalenko was handed over to ‘LPR’ as part of an exchange of prisoners, writes Halya Coynash for khpg.org. The demand by russia via its proxy ‘republic’ to have Kovalenko released in the exchange aroused considerable attention at the time since Kovalenko’s main claim to notoriety was ...russian nuclear weapons are already in Crimea?
24.01.2021
“russia is preparing for the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea. russia’s preparation for the deployment of nuclear weapons in Crimea is a serious danger to the whole of Europe and the civilized world. An attempt by the russian Federation to assert dominance in the Black Sea basin is a major threat to the economies of Ukraine, Turkey and other European countries,” said Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Taran on December 18, 2020.Bohdan Ustymenko, an ...russian oligarchs aimed at inciting anti-Semitism in Ukraine?
03.01.2021
Prominent Ukrainian Jewish figures have initiated an impassioned appeal against the latest plans linked with the highly contentious Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Complex. They suspect that the new plans, which are sponsored by russian oligarchs, for a synagogue to be built on the site of a Kyrylivske Christian Orthodox graveyard are deliberate provocation, aimed at inciting anti-Semitism in Ukraine or treating understandable outrage as proof of anti-Semitism, writes Halya Coynash for khpg.org. Their appeal is open to all who, like them, find it ...State Bureau of Investigations under Zelensky tries to charge Maidan activist Tetyana Chornovol with murder
21.12.2020
Tetyana Chornovol has been formally charged with murder during a Molotov cocktail attack on the ruling Party of the Regions headquarters on 18 February 2014. The anti-corruption investigative journalist, Maidan activist and, former MP, can be facing a life sentence on charges which the former chief investigator into crimes during Euromaidan has said he sees no grounds for, writes Halya Coynash for khpg.org.Chornovol announced on leaving the State Bureau of Investigations on 15 December that the criminal investigation against her was now ...Polish Center for Geopolitical Analysis was an organization handled by russians?
03.12.2020
More evidence has now emerged suggesting that the Poland-based European Center for Geopolitical Analysis (Europejskie Centrum Analiz Geopolitycznych, ECAG) was an organization handled by the russian authorities, writes Anton Shekhovtsov in his blog.The ECAG was founded in 2007 by a Polish far-right activist Mateusz Piskorski, then a member of the Polish populist party Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej). The activities of the ECAG were originally limited to providing authoritarian East European regimes with compliant “election observation” missions. ...“Is Ukraine set to change rulers yet again” or is Melinda Haring?
29.10.2020
Is Ukraine Set to Change Rulers Yet Again?, writes the self-proclaimed expert on Ukraine Melinda Haring for nationalinterest.org.The question I would like to know the answer to: “Is Ukraine set to change rulers yet again or is Melinda Haring?” Well, I think it is a “no” to both. I am not certain what Melinda means by “rulers of Ukraine”, this is not the Middle Ages, but deriving from the way she puts it I can’t help but wonder whether she ...russia gives main suspect in Odesa tragedy high-ranking post in occupied Crimea
28.10.2020
Having spent six years claiming that the tragic fire in Odesa on 2 May 2014 was a ‘massacre’, and that Kyiv is protecting the perpetrators, russia has not only shielded a main suspect, but has given him a top position in occupied Crimea. Volodymyr Bodelan, the former head of the Odesa Emergency Services, has just been appointed deputy head of the Simferopol district in Crimea, after fleeing arrest in early 2016 and receiving russian citizenship, writes Halya Coynash for khpg.org.In reporting Bodelan’s ...russia sells stolen Ukrainian heritage
22.10.2020
The world-famous Massandra Winery in occupied Crimea is due to be privatized and sold by the end of 2020, with this only one of many parts of Ukraine’s heritage in Crimea that the russian occupiers are treating as bounty and selling, often to people close to the kremlin or to the occupation regime, writes Halya Coynash for the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.Viktoria Veselova from Krym Realii reports that premises in two former merchant homes in Simferopol, both of them monuments of ...
