Colonel Cassad: The Ukrainian military’s planned offensive

By Colonel Cassad August 21: According to [Donetsk Deputy Defense Minister Eduard] Basurin, the total number of offensive forces of Ukrainian troops is: Personnel – More than 90,000 troopsTanks – About 450 unitsBMP (Armored Personnel Carriers) -More than 2,500 units5 “Tochka –U” rocket launcher complexes230 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) approx.Artillery guns and mortars – […]

The Soviet Union, Sam Marcy and the Summer of 1991

By Melinda Butterfield Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the summer of 1991. I turned 20, and it was my second year as a communist activist in New York. I was assisting comrade Sam Marcy, the founder of Workers World Party, as his “secretary” – I put that in quotes because I was really […]

Anna Novorossiysk: ‘Better to be shot in the chest standing upright than get a knife in the back, on your knees’

By Alexander Alekseev, Recent News of Donbass On August 18, 2015, in the city of Alchevsk, I had the opportunity to chat with a fighter, war correspondent and beautiful woman who belongs to the Ghost Brigade of Alexei Mozgovoi — Anna Novorossiysk, call sign “Bagheera” [Panther]. Ghost Brigade fighter Anna Novorossiysk (Bagheera).Photo: Recent News of […]

Russian citizen not allowed into Lithuania because of Soviet symbols

August 18: The State Border Guard Service of Lithuania refused to allow a citizen of the Russian Federation into the country whose car was decorated with Soviet symbols, reports BBC Russian Service. According to the report, a car with Russian license plates was stopped on Monday afternoon at the Bardin border post. The car has a sticker with […]

Ghost Brigade roots out neo-fascist saboteurs

By Alexander Krot August 18: Friends, the first fruits of the work of the Commissars in the Brigade: Thanks to the work of the Commissar of the 1st company, Timur (callsign “Faust”), the ability of the neo-fascist political organization Phoenix Assault Company to pursue its destructive propaganda work among the fighters of the 1st Company, […]

The Novorossiyan ideal isn’t dead

By Dmitry Rodionov, Free Press(Excerpts) “Novorossiya” isn’t dead — its fate depends on the implementation of the Minsk agreements by Ukraine. That’s what Chairman of the Parliament of Novorossiya Oleg Tsarev said in an interview with The Crimean Telegraph. According to him, while the activity of the Parliament of Novorossiya is frozen, the question of […]

Kiev plans provocations to justify offensive in Donbass: Donetsk Defense Ministry

August 17: Ukrainian security services plan terrorist attacks on its territory on the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day [August 24]. This was announced today by Edward Basurin, deputy commander of the Ministry of Defense of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR). Donetsk Deputy Defense Minister Edward Basurin “I draw your attention to the fact that, according to […]

Lugansk: Summary from the front

By Alexander KrotAlchevsk, Lugansk People’s Republic August 17: For the last few weeks, the situation at the front in the zone controlled by the Ghost Brigade has been tense but stable. Almost daily, the Ukrainian DRG [Sabotage and Reconnaissance Group] attempts to penetrate the brigade’s combat formations. These attempts have been stopped by our team. […]

Col. Cassad: Donbass after the fighting of August 16

By Colonel Cassad August 17: Briefly on yesterday’s events. 1. Large-scale offensive action has not taken place, fighting has continued in the key positions. Message from Regnum has not been confirmed or has been overtaken by events. 2. You can speak of a sustained trend — the shelling of cities and the front line in […]

NY Times exploits Mozgovoi’s death to promote divisions in Donbass

The following letter was submitted to the New York Times, which declined to publish it. To the Editor: The conflicts that have arisen over centralization of militia forces in the independent Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, while important, cannot be reduced to territorial and ethnic divisions between Russian and Cossack leaders, as portrayed by Andrew […]