Donbas

The citizens of Toretsk (former Dzerzhynsk) in Donetsk oblast asked the Head of National Police in Donetsk oblast Vyacheslav Abroskin to look into the activities of a group of people including the mayor of Toretsk who, in their opinion, were involved in the occupation of the city by militants in 2014.

Narodnyi Front MP Anton Herashchenko criticized Nadiya Savchenko for saying that Ukraine "should apologize for Donbas"

The deputy commander of 53rd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been detained for the sale of ammunition.

Local citizens in Druzhkivka, Donetsk oblast, protested against the lack of domestic water supply on Thursday, July 21, the regional coordinator of ‘Strong Communities of Donetsk Oblast’ movement Pavlo Ostrovskyi informed Ukrayinska Pravda.

Representatives of the unrecognized “people’s republic” in Donetsk oblast turned down a Ukrainian offer of a prisoner exchange.

There are currently 702 Russian tanks in the temporarily occupied territories, Yevhen Marchuk, who represents Ukraine in the Minsk negotiations, said on 5 Kanal on July 18.

Top officers of the Russian Army and the Military Commissar of Perm awarded medals to militants who killed Ukrainians in Donbas

The Kramatorsk unit of the Ukrainian Border Guards arrested a DNR militant who has Russian citizenship at Marinka checkpoint on July 11, the press service of the State Border Service reports.

President Poroshenko’s Envoy on Peace Plan for the Occupied Donbas Iryna Herashchenko stresses that the militants are blocking release of the Ukrainian citizens held hostages by them and require amnesty of the gross criminals.

June 5 is the second anniversary of liberation of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and other Northern cities and towns of Donetska Oblast from separatist militants

In occupied Horlivka, a group of militants together with the head of the company that manages electricity systems created by the authorities of the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’, seized a building that belongs to Ukrainian state-owned energy company Ukrenergo.

Freight rail transportation through the contact line in Donbas has been resumed since June 25, 2016.

Ukraine will consider introducing decentralization-related amendments to its Constitution only after peace is established in Donbas.

Ukrainian soldiers captured eight militants near Shyrokyne village around Mariupol.

On June 24, the so-called ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’ (DNR) adopted a law on nationalization of all Ukrainian property on its territory.

The TV tower foundation is being restored on Karachun Mountain in Donetsk oblast, Novosti Donbassa reports.

Restoring the infrastructure in parts of Donbas that was damaged during the war will cost about $15 billion.

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations sent its 53rd convoy with so-called ‘humanitarian aid’ to Luhansk.

Chief of the General Staff Viktor Muzhenko was questioned in the case of Major General Viktor Nazarov who is accused of negligence of duty, which led to the deaths of 49 people in the sky above Luhansk on June 14, 2014.

The Security Service of Ukraine has uncovered actions of the Chief of Staff of the Russian mission at the Joint Center on Control and Coordination (JCCC) on issues related to the ceasefire regime that are contrary to the Minsk agreements.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is considering removing his political party UDAR from Petro Poroshenko Bloc (BPP).

Militants’ checkpoints in the non-government controlled parts of Donbas are only 30–40% manned, the Head of Donetsk Oblast Civil–Military Administration Pavlo Zhebrivskyi said.

The Ukrainian delegation to PACE is drafting a letter to express its outrage with Annual Report of the Secretary-General not mentioning multiple violations of human rights in Crimea and Donbas.

The ‘Normandy four’ leaders may meet in early July before the NATO summit scheduled for July 8-9 in Warsaw.

Militants opened mass artillery shelling against Ukrainian forces near Vodiane village close to the city of Mariupol in Donbas.

Kostiantyn Yeliseiev, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, uttered that Ukraine insists on deploying an OSCE armed mission in Donbas to ensure safe elections there.

The installation of new TV towers in a number of cities in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts will cost ₴12–20 million.

George Tuka thinks it would make sense to offer combatants who fight in the ATO zone preferential loans for business instead of social benefits and pensions after they demobilize.

Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko speaks of the Russian military threat to Ukraine not only from the South-East direction and Donbas, but also from Crimea.

Poroshenko stated that the restoration of Ukraine’s control over its borders on the temporarily occupied territories is a key to carry out the Minsk Agreement, as he greeted the Ukrainian border guards.