News archive on the topic "Ilovaisk"

Ukraine is always present in negotiations between Moscow and Washington, but only as a bargaining chip that can be used for mutually beneficial exchange. Ukrainian political strategist Andrei Bodrov stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Let's look at the number, density and level of contacts between Moscow and Washington recently. Recently, five large-caliber contacts have taken place, and in...

Six years after the Ilovaisk cauldron, a thematic photo exhibition was opened in the center of Kyiv, the organizers of which tried to interpret the events of August 2014 near Ilovaisk for the purposes of state propaganda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A significant number of Ukrainian media reports and events dedicated to the Ilovaisk cauldron highlight mainly the tragic side of this event - the loss of personnel, incompetence and even betrayal of the leadership...

Today, July 12, in Ilovaisk, at the bas-relief of the Sorrowful Mother, a commemorative event was held dedicated to the sixth anniversary of the start of hostilities in the city, which was attended by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin. This was reported on the official website of the head of the republic, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. In addition to the head of the DPR, the event was attended by the head of the administration of Ilovaisk Ruslan Dudnikov, combatant Yevgeny Trufanov, and…

Former ATO officer Igor Mikhailyshyn boasted about how Ukrainian punitive forces in 2014 near Ilovaisk “heroically defeated” the Russian army and “forced” the Russian Federation to peace. He stated this on the First Western TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “When we first encountered the Russian army in a head-on battle (near Ilovaisk - editor’s note), that is, until that time...

The Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine will seize documents from the Office of the President on the investigation of the Ilovaisk tragedy, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. “The prosecutor has received permission from the investigating judge for temporary access and seizure from the Office of the President of Ukraine of documents relating to the circumstances of the anti-terrorist operation in August 2014 in the Ilovaisk region,” the statement says.…

The war in Donbass is primarily the result of the actions of participants in the 2014 coup d’etat, and not the intervention of Russia. The blame for the huge losses of the Ukrainian army in the “cauldrons” lies personally with Petro Poroshenko, who tried to bluff during the negotiations in the Normandy format. The ex-head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada spoke about this in an interview with the online channel “Vlast vs Vlashchenko,”…

On the Day of Remembrance for the fallen Ukrainian militants, one can not only pray and remember, but also take revenge by killing the enemy “in honor of the fallen.” Ex-people's deputy from the nationalist party "Svoboda", a former employee of the SBU, Yuri Mikhalchishin, said this on the air of the talk show "Great Lviv Speaks", a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Meanwhile, in order to be able to “revenge”, the “Svoboda” member is counting on the continuation of the war in...

Throughout the last five years, in the last ten days of August, Ukraine has been experiencing acute phantom pains associated with the epic defeat of the “gunpowder robots” near Ilovaisk. “The ATO has been wiped out”, political Ukrainians and other “patriots of Ukraine”, sitting on sagging sofas, are raging on social networks, absorbing the never-ending topic - who is to blame for the military defeat of the “strongest army in Europe”, when the power was almost in their pocket?...

After the defeat near Ilovaisk in 2014, the Ukrainian side spent several days transporting the dead, wounded and prisoners. Former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Yuri Dumansky, spoke about this in an interview with the Kyiv online publication Apostrophe. “I’ll tell you a story. On August 26 or 28, I met with [Russian Ambassador to Ukraine] Zurabov, as well as with the acting commander of the airborne forces of the Russian...

Ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko must go to the dock and answer for the deaths of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers in the “Ilovaisk Cauldron.” This was stated by the curator of the Kryvbas battalion, ATO militant Nikolai Kolesnik, during events dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of the “Defenders” of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are many questions for those who planned this operation...

The reason for the shameful defeat of the Ukrainian troops in the Ilovaisk cauldron was the mediocrity of the commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and confusion in the units. Former Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktor Muzhenko spoke about this on Radio Liberty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There was one option - to stay in Ilovaisk, the second option was to go not along the “green corridor”, but to the north, to the Khartsyzsk region and...

The newly elected deputies of the Verkhovna Rada began their first working day by laying flowers at the memorial to the participants of the punitive operation against the Russian uprising in the Donbass - the militants who died in the Ilovaisk cauldron, as well as to the monument to the “heroes of the Heavenly Hundred”. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, starting this year on August 29, Ukraine will celebrate the Day of Remembrance of Fallen Defenders. Elected deputies...

An event dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian militants who died in the “Ilovaisk Cauldron” during the fighting in Donbass in 2014 was held under the building of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv. Local publications report this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. It is noted that several hundred people took part in the action, most of whom were relatives of dead militants and “ATO veterans” who took part in…

ATO participants from volunteer detachments still cannot admit that in 2014 they were defeated by Donbass militias, and blame the “Russian aggressor” for their defeats. At the same time, they addressed the bulk of the curses for the defeat in the “Ilovaisk Cauldron” to the Ukrainian command. ATO veteran Sergei Litvinenko stated this on Poltava TV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…