By Özgür Altınbaş, Donetsk / Russia Vittorio Nicola Rangeloni, a Russian/Italian journalist living in Donetsk, described the latest situation on the Ukrainian front. “Having lost control of Ugledar, Selidovo and Gornyak, the Ukrainian army is about to lose control of Kurakhovo,” Rangeloni said, noting that Russian armed forces are constantly advancing on the Donbass front. Emphasizing that all these places ...

By Yiğit Saner, Donbass / Russia Our final day in the Donetsk People’s Republic after three days of exploring historic sites from the ruins of Azovstal where the Azov Battalion was trapped to the legendary Saur Mohlya Hill that changed hands eight times, from the rebuilt streets of Mariupol to the training grounds of the Maksim Krivonos battalion of the ...

By Yiğit Saner, Donbass / Russia As invited guests of the Moscow-based “Culture Volunteers” we visited Donbass. Here is a war zone since 2014. The press tour was between 1-4 October. The aim of the tour has been organized for five years to let journalist witness realities of Donbass with their own eyes, that the reality is quite different than ...