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Ukraine should investigate its military’s apparent use of thousands of rocket-fired antipersonnel landmines in and around the eastern city of Izium when Russian forces occupied the area, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch documented numerous cases in which Read More …
A local official in a part of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region controlled by Russian forces was killed on Thursday in a car bomb attack, the Russian-installed local administration said. It blamed the death of Andrei Shtepa on “Ukrainian terrorists”. There Read More …
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) recently accused the Ukrainian Armed Forces of planting PFM-1s, also known as butterfly mines, throughout residential areas of Russian-controlled Donbas. The Russian MFA also claimed that “the use of butterfly mines goes against Read More …
The prosecutor-general of the Russian-backed self-declared Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) in eastern Ukraine and his deputy were killed when a bomb went off at their offices, the head of the separatist administration has said. “As a result of a terrorist Read More …
Russian troops use Uran-6 unmanned ground vehicle to clear PFM-1 “Lepestok”/”Petal” anti-personnel landmines scattered around Donetsk city and surrounding areas. According to local reports several rockets with PFM-1 landmines were fired at Donetsk city which resulted in wide area contamination Read More …
Videos circulating on social media purport to show thermite munitions raining down from the sky in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine. Since April, Russia has concentrated on capturing the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces that make up the Donbas region, Read More …
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ongoing, it’s easy to forget the flurry of dubious provocations and staged events that appear to have been designed to implicate the Ukrainian armed forces and drum up military aggression in the days before the Read More …
The car that exploded near a government building in downtown Donetsk belongs to Denis Sinenkov, the chief of a department at the militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, the Donetsk News Agency reported on Friday. “That was Sinenkov’s car,” Read More …
A Ukrainian Joint Forces serviceman has been wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the area of responsibility of the North operational and tactical group in eastern Ukraine, the group has reported on its Facebook page. “The soldier Read More …
A Ukrainian soldier was injured in a landmine blast in the Donbas warzone on Saturday. The serviceman survived the explosion and was evacuated to a military hospital, reads a morning update by the Joint Forces Operation Headquarters. His condition is Read More …
