Donbas.Realities is a regional news outlet of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
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.
