The two men, Aleksandr Baranov and Maksim Odintsov, were arrested on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the frontier yesterday afternoon.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the south of the Donetsk region yesterday.
Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov was convicted of ‘terrorism’ during a show trial and sentenced to 20 years in a penal colony.
The new Azov National Corps opposes EU membership and calls instead for a new union between the Black and Baltic seas.
Meanwhile heavy shelling is reported today near Mariupol and Avdeyevka
Russia-backed forces reportedly used heavy artillery to shell Shirokino, on the Azov coast.
Meanwhile one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another wounded in the Donbass yesterday.
Umerov is not allowed to leave Russian-occupied Crimea while his trial for “separatism” continues.
Early in the morning on the 7th of August, Russian border guards closed all the security checkpoints on the border between Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in March 2014, and the rest of Ukraine. Witnesses reported the sounds of shots fired near the administrative border. The Russians re-opened the security checkpoints later but offered no […]
Yevhen Panov’s brother says he was in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region hours before the FSB claims they detained him.
