Category:Ukraine

Economy

 * Aviation
 * Soviet-design, Ukrainian-built largest plane in the world, An-225 «Mriya» (Mрія - dream-Ukr.) lands in Czech Republic, to load T-72A tanks repaired there. It was feared that they will be delivered to 'ATO' in Donbas, but it is said that they went to Nigeria instead.
 * An-225 landing video
 * There is only one such plane flying. Another one is 70% assembled, its construction stopped with the collapse of the Soviet Union. It still rots at the yard of Antonov plant (photos)
 * AN 148-100 EA, initially designed by Antonov, various modifications produced in Ukraine and Russia. (Delivered Erofeev and Alexandrov to Moscow.)



Donbass Events, 2014

 * Donetsk
 * 03.03. 2014 Donetsk city council vote approved a referendum 'on the future of the region'.
 * City administration was stormed by 'several hundred' of (pro-Russian) protesters after the vote. Police did not interfere.


 * Slaviansk.
 * Komsomolsjaya Pravda report with photo of Strelkov, 26 April 2014.
 * First interview without mask, Alexandrer Kots, Dmitrii Steshin


 * Mariupol, 9 May 2014
 * Civilians shot (video)
 * Documentary video "Mariupol 9 May 2014 All Truth!", 1:34:43
 * Mariupol_police_alive.jpg


 * Starobelsk (map), 22 May 2014, report and video, Rusvesna, published  22 May 2016.
 * ''Thugs with automatic weapons, pistols and truncheons are brutally beating and shooting civilians who have gathered for a picket against the introduction of Ukrainian military equipment to Donbass. After those bloody events on 22 May 2014, several residents of Starobelsk (Lugansk region,  presently controlled by Ukraine) disappeared.


 * Referendum in Krasnoarmeisk was dispersed by armed men calling themselves Dnepr battalion. Video, published 11 May 2014.
 * June 2, 2014. Explosion next to the building of Luhansk city administration, 8 people were killed. Said to be air bombing by Ukraine. Explosion video, around (1:33). There is another flash, in the flag-post area, right before the bigger explosion (so some users think it is a strike by grenade launcher). More details collected on another video, several craters and explosions, remains of a rocket in one of the craters, said to be S8 COM, unguided air-to-ground missile. Ukrainian version of MANPAD homing on air conditioner is discussed and rejected (multiple craters, no air conditioners and locking on it is not going to occur according to expert interviewed). Tree tops are cut, supporting aerial bombardment version.


 * Aug.-Sept., Nizhniaya Krynka
 * 16 Aug. 2014. Ukraine occupied Zhdanovka, Kommunar, Nizhniaya Krynka. In 20-th of September they were driven back. Video shows what was left after them.


 * There were also accusations of rape (discussed on talk page; shown at the time with a group of international observers on video ).