Contents tagged with LNR

  • News of the death of LPR commander 'Plastun' appears in social networks

    Bloggers recently wrote that a separatist commander with the call sign Plastun was killed in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic or LPR, Ukrinform reports.

    The death of the field commander was also confirmed by the Deputy Minister of Ukraine for the temporarily occupied territories, Heorhiy Tuka. "Another one joined the 'silence regime,"' the official wrote. Plastun’s death was also reported in social networks by the representatives of the separatists themselves.

    The last notable …

  • Former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the LPR declared wanted by separatist authorities

    The Prosecutor’s Office of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic declared that the former Chairman of the Supreme Council of the self-declared republic, Aleksey Karyakin, is wanted.

    Karyakin is accused of “an attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer and a serviceman, the deliberate damage of property resulting in significant damage, illegal acquisition, [and the] possession, transportation or carrying of firearms and ammunition.”

    According to journalist Denis Kazansky, “on September …

  • UN Urges Rebel Leaders to allow Humanitarian Organizations in Donbas Region

    In his address to the UN Security Council on December 11th, the Director of Operations for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, John Ging, called on the pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas region to allow free access to humanitarian missions in the area.

    According to Ging, there are currently only two international humanitarian organizations that are allowed to operate in the regions of Eastern Ukraine that are controlled by pro-Russian separatists, the AFP …