Ukrainian Freedom Fund Launched – New Initiative to Support the Ukrainian Army
The Ukrainian Freedom Fund (UFF) was officially launched at a press conference in Kyiv today, April 29th, to help centrally collect and convert donations into support for military units located on the Ukrainian State Borders. The Fund, set up three weeks ago through a joint initiative of Andrew Bain, President and Owner of Atlantic Group, one of...
Andy Hunder: Putin More Afraid of Banks than Tanks
Ukrainian Institute Director Andy Hunder spoke at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre in Kyiv earlier in April, 2014. “What UK is focusing now is on the role it can play as we understand that Vladimir Putin is more afraid of the banks than tanks”, said Andy Hunder, Director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, during a briefing at the...
Ukrainian governments’s forces has tried to cut off the rebels’ supply from Russia
Ukraine’s government now faces a choice on how to end the insurgency if it pursues the military option: use more heavy shelling, as in Slovyansk, or engage in an urban guerrilla war in the center of Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, the Aljazeera reports. The Ukrainian government’s antiterrorist operation thus far has tried to...
Ukraine: Escalation Triggers Laws of War
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Ukrainian government forces and armed insurgents in eastern Ukraine must respect the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a document published today. “Eastern Ukraine: Questions and Answers about the Laws of War” examines the development of the insurgency in eastern Ukraine into an internal armed...
Ukraine: Review Operations in Southeast
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Ukraine’s authorities should review counterinsurgency operations in southeast Ukraine to ensure that government forces are complying with all of their obligations under international law. (Berlin) – Ukraine’s authorities should review counterinsurgency operations in southeast Ukraine to ensure...
Ukraine: Free ‘Disappeared’ Journalist
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Ukrainian authorities should immediately release a journalist apparently forcibly disappeared since May 10, 2014 by government military forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. (Donetsk) – Ukrainian authorities should immediately release a journalist apparently forcibly disappeared since May 10, 2014...
Ukraine: Insurgents Terrorize East Before Vote
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Armed insurgents in eastern Ukraine have gone on a violence spree before the May 25, 2014 presidential elections, terrorizing staff of the district electoral commissions. (Donetsk) – Armed insurgents in eastern Ukrainehave gone on a violence spree before the May 25, 2014 presidential elections, terrorizing...
Ukraine: Anti-Kiev Forces Running Amok
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Anti-Kiev forces in eastern Ukraine are abducting, attacking, and harassing people they suspect of supporting the Ukrainian government or consider undesirable (Berlin) – Anti-Kiev forces in eastern Ukraine are abducting, attacking, and harassing people they suspect of supporting the Ukrainian government or...
The EU Association Agreement will allow Ukraine to obtain funding from the IMF
Director of Economic Programmes of the Razumkov Centre Vasyl Yurchyshyn shared his thoughts on whether Ukraine can receive another tranche of international financial assistance, based on conclusions of the monitoring mission of the IMF, with the news agency UNIAN. As to reforms being conducted, one should admit that there are areas where changes...
Despite recent improvements, Ukrainian military’s work is far from done
When pro-Russian rebels first fanned out across eastern Ukraine in April, seizing public buildings, ousting local officials and blockading streets and highways, the government’s security forces – a ragtag lot of poorly equipped and understaffed military and police units – were largely paralyzed by dysfunction and defection. They...
