Donbas.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
A Ukrainian woman has given RFE/RL a detailed account of how she was raped by a Russian Army soldier. To protect her privacy, we have pixelated her face and we are not disclosing her name. Ukrainian police have been informed of the case.
The Russia-backed separatists who hold parts of eastern Ukraine have begun the evacuation of residents to Russia. With thousands of people crossing into Russia on buses and trains, evacuees and those who remain in Ukraine gave conflicting stories about what they are being told.
After weeks of headlines warning an invasion could be imminent, and with more than 100,000 Russian troops massed across the border, many people have taken to online chats and forums based in eastern Ukraine to express their frustration, anger, and fear.
Before his arrest, the ex-warden of a grim prison in separatist-held Donetsk had been living quietly in Kyiv for two years. According to three former Ukrainian security officers, Denys Kulykovskiy had relocated to Kyiv in 2019 after he began cooperating on a counterintelligence operation.
