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Russia demands Ukraine let 3 regions break away and scrap its army to stop war

The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine is "demilitarised" and Donetsk and Lugansk, where intense fighting has raged between Russian backed separatists and Ukrainian forces for eight years, become independent states

Daily Mirror · Mar 7, 2022

Russian warlord who led Neo-Nazi 'Sparta' battalion shot dead as Ukrainians hold town

Vladimir Zhoga, who led the Sparta Battalion, which among the fiercest to fight with the Russian army and was formed in the breakaway Ukrainian territory of Donetsk during the 2014 conflict

Daily Mirror · Mar 7, 2022

‘Phone calls worse than bombs’: Ukrainian’s postcard from war-torn Kyiv

None of us imagined that Vladimir Putin would start a war. This was unthinkable even after he took Crimea and the two Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. The worst we assumed was that he would again arrange a provocation at the border. But he suddenly began to bomb the…

Newslaundry · Mar 7, 2022

UN Concerned About Reports of Cluster Bombs in Ukraine

The UN human rights chief said Thursday military operations in Ukraine are “escalating further as we speak” and warned of “concerning reports” of the use of cluster bombs. Michelle Bachelet said the Ukrainian town of Volnovakha in the eastern Donetsk region, where pro-Russian separatists seized territory in 2014, leading to…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 3, 2022

Ukraine crisis: What are the Minsk agreements?

Emmanuel Macron insisted revival of accords from 2014 and 2015 ‘only path on which peace can be built’

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2022

Ukraine crisis: What are the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics?

Pro-Russian separatist regions declared independence from Kyiv in 2014

The Independent UK · Mar 3, 2022

Paulo Fonseca spent over a day in bunker before embarking on 30-hour escape from Ukraine

Former Shakhtar Donetsk boss Paulo Fonseca, who was previously on Tottenham's radar, has opened up on his and his family's exit from Ukraine as they battled to exit the country amid Russia's invasion

Daily Mirror · Mar 3, 2022

Pro-Russian separatists threaten Ukraine's Mariupol with strikes

Pro-Russian forces may launch targeted strikes on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol unless Ukrainian forces there surrender, the Interfax news agency quoted Donetsk separatist commander Eduard Basurin as saying on Thursday.

Reuters · Mar 3, 2022

Inside Donetsk, the separatist republic that triggered the war in Ukraine

Foreign Correspondent spends a week inside the alternative reality of the "anti-fascist" Donetsk People's Republic in the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

Ukraine crisis: What are the Minsk agreements?

Emmanuel Macron insisted revival of accords from 2014 and 2015 ‘only path on which peace can be built’

The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2022