Panicked diplomacy by Western leaders as thousands of Ukrainian troops encircled by Novorossiyan militia

By Greg Butterfield Early February saw a flurry of diplomatic visits from the West and panicky negotiations by European Union leaders with Kiev and Moscow to reach a ceasefire in the war between Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, also called Novorossiya. On February 9, German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew to Washington and […]

Fascists destroy three Soviet monuments in Krivoy Rog

On Sunday night, February 8, in Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk region, three monuments to figures of Soviet times were toppled: Artem, Felix Dzerzhinsky and Karl Liebknecht. The police were unable to provide additional information about the incident. However, the page of the local Right Sector bragged that it had “destroyed monuments of the totalitarian regime,” together […]

The trap of war

By Nahia Sanzo In late 2014, the report by the International Crisis Group on Ukraine already suggested that the Western elite wouldn’t gamble on negotiations in the Donbass region. The article by Timothy Garton Ash in the Guardian (“Putin must be stopped. And sometimes only guns can stop guns,” February 1, 2015) is one more example of the […]

Hell in Chernukhin: Ukraine forces fire on evacuees after 2-week siege

Compiled from on-the-scene reports by Alexander Kiev, News-Front.info correspondent February 6: By agreement of top officials this morning, a humanitarian corridor was to be created to evacuate villagers from Chernukhin, in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LC), 2km from Debaltseve. However, as soon as the Lugansk Ministry of Emergency Situations column went into the village, the […]

Memorandum of Donetsk People’s Republic on state-building, political and historical continuity

February 4, 2015 We, the members of the People’s Soviet of the Donetsk People’s Republic first convocation, elected in the general democratic and free elections of Nov. 2, 2014, taking into account the principles of international law embodied in the United Nations Charter, proclaim a memorandum on fundamentals of state-building, political and historical continuity. Based […]

Another barbaric bombardment of Donetsk civilians by Ukrainian forces

February 4, 2015: Today, Ukrainian artillery inflicted a heavy blow on the Kirov district of the city of Donetsk, in particular on the Textilschik neighborhood. Polyclinic No. 27, School No. 22, a local kindergarten, a number of houses and civilian infrastructure were shelled. At this point, the number of victims is still to be determined. […]

Ukraine employs U.S. combat tactics against civilians, rebel reports

By Odalys Buscarón Ochoa Moscow, February 3 (PL) – The deputy minister of parliament of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), Denis Pushilin, reported here today that Ukrainian troops used U.S.-style combat tactics against civilians in Donbass. Pushilin said in an interview with Prensa Latina that in the cities of Debaltsevo and Uglegorsk, the epicenter […]

The double standard behind Kiev’s latest ceasefire proposal

Statement by Vladislav Deynego, chief negotiator for the Lugansk People’s Republic February 3: Today I received an official offer from Major-General A. Rozmaznin, team leader of the Ukrainian side of the Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination, the essence of which was to introduce a “regime of silence” in the cities of the “Debaltsevsky bridgehead” […]

Ukraine: The cuckoo country

By Alexei Albu, Odessa Regional Council member The cuckoo is a bird that does not bring up its chicks, but pushes them into others’ nests. Like the cuckoo, Ukraine also refuses to provide for its citizens. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing in all directions, hoping for a better life. Poverty, destruction and bloodshed […]

Appeal to the people from Alexei Mozgovoi

February 1, 2015: Hello, I am Alexei Mozgovoi, commander of the Ghost Brigade. First of all I want to refute some rumors circulated by the Ukrainian media on the preparation of our team to leave their positions. It is the same nonsense as claims about our losses. Our fighters stand on their positions and are […]